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Knoxville is a city full of hidden gems - locally sourced restaurants, antique shops you can get lost in, a farmers market complete with food trucks galore! Below you'll find some of our favorite spots in our magical city... we hope you love it as much as we do!

We've made this map of some of our favorite restaurants, bars, vintage stores, coffee shops, dessert spots, and must see Knoxville locations.

Knoxville This Weekend

  • Thur @ 7 pm Honky Tonk Country Swing Two Step at Fly By Night
  • Fri @ 9:30 am Free Yoga at the Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Fri @ 1 pm Carolina Shag Workshop with Sam & Lisa West
  • Sat @ 10 - 2 Market Square Farmers Market
  • Sat @ 12 - 5 Pickle Festival
  • Sat & Sun Fanboy Anime/Gaming Expo
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Some of our Favorite Places near the Venues

Food

  • Chaiyo *
  • French Market *
  • Jackie's Dream
  • Marble City Market *
  • Not Watson's
  • Stock and Barrel
  • Yassin's *
  • Ale Rae's
  • Victor's Tacos*
  • Holy Land
  • La Herradura

* good for a fast lunch

Coffee

  • Capybara Coffee
  • Old City Java
  • Wild Love
  • Five & Hoek
  • Remedy Coffee

Desserts

  • Artisan Cakery
  • Wild Love
  • Cruze Farm
  • Tesoro Gelato
  • Coffee & Chocolate
  • Sugar Queen Creamery
  • Sugar Queen Doughnutry

Beer

  • Hi-Wire Brewing
  • Printshop Beer Co
  • Schulz Brau
  • Xul Beer Co
  • Barrelhouse Cidery

Drinks

  • The Kennedy
  • Suttree's
  • Peter Kern's Library

Do

  • 1982 World's Fair Sunsphere 
  • Ijams/Navitat
  • Knox Museum of Art
  • Zoo Knoxville
  • Baker Creek Preserve

Shop

  • Four Seasons
  • Nostalgia
  • Pretentious Glass
  • Retrospect

Join us in Knoxville March 27 - March 29, 2026

Dive into a weekend of vintage jazz dancing where the Southeast meets the Midwest to learn, throw down, inspire, grow, work together, and dance your hearts out. We're back for another year of fantastic classes, teachers, music and dancing in the heart of the TN Valley! 
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site images by Nick Williams, Sammi Kunz, Jeff Liu-Leyco, Gabi Rosenthal Photography, American Vernacular and JBrantley Photography
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