Pat and Gina Neely, the adorable married cooking couple who star on Food Network’s ‘Down Home with the Neely’s’ and owners of three successful family BBQ restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee, are bringing there sweet southern cooking to NY’s Upper East Side. The lovebirds who cook with passion and love, are opening Neely’s BBQ Parlor on 1st Ave and 62nd St and taking over the huge space where Merchants has been residing for years. And for all the cigar lovers who have been enjoying Merchant’s Cigar Bar forever as well, no worries they told me it’s staying. Neely’s BBQ Parlor is slated for a May 1 opening. www.neelysbbqparlor.com 1125 1st Ave New York, NY 10065 212 832 1551