Restaurant Scene: Lookout and Signal mountains both go Mediterranean

Massey’s Kitchen’s is cooking on Lookout Mountain, and Civil Provisions and Bar has set up shop on Signal Mountain. The two mountains are roughly 14 miles apart, but they’ve never been closer than now.

Both restaurants have decided to dive, head first, into the Mediterranean region.

Civil Provisions is definitely a break from what we’ve previously known about owner Jason Bowers. Daily Ration is a North Shore brunch hot spot where you can build your own avocado toast and shoot Irish breakfast shots. The Bitter Alibi, with those spiral staircases that I love so much, leans heavy into dumplings stuffed with kimchi, bibimbap, bulgogi Phillies and other things that come to mind when you think of Korean food, while the Clever Alehouse has all the greasy stuff synonymous with bar food: sloppy smash burgers and tater tots loaded with a little bit of everything.