Disco Chicken turns one — with a gluten-free festival and a silent disco
Knoxville's first all-gluten-free restaurant marks a year at Kern's on Saturday: a festival all day, and a silent disco that picks up where the third-place match leaves off.
- When
- Sat, Jul 18 · all day
- Where
- Kern's, 2201 Kern's Rising Way
- Silent disco
- 9–11 PM
- Also Saturday
- Free barre on the event lawn, 9:30 AM · Jaystorm Duo, 6 PM
A year ago a fully gluten-free fried chicken counter opened inside Kern's — the first all-gluten-free restaurant in Knoxville. Since then Disco Chicken has been written up as one of the best gluten-free restaurants anywhere, which is a sentence that ends with "in the world" and starts in South Knoxville.
Saturday it turns one. The food hall is running a Gluten Free Festival all day around it, and then — this is the good part — a silent disco from 9 to 11, scheduled, per Kern's own listing, to keep the energy up after that afternoon's watch party. Headphones on, everybody dancing to nothing, in a food hall, for a chicken's birthday. We'd call that peak SoKno.
If you're making a day of it: there's a free barre class on the event lawn at 9:30 that morning, the third-place match at 5, Jaystorm Duo playing covers 6 to 9, and then the disco. That's a full Saturday without leaving the building.
