MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Booths are filling up at The Egyptian Taste at Foothills Mall in Blount County ahead of lunchtime.
The restaurant’s owner, Mohamed Allam, owns a food truck that he operates on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, but he lives in Maryville.
He said at first he wanted to open a sit-down eatery in Knoxville and bring his food truck to Blount County, but when he got the opportunity to open his restaurant at the former Chick-fil-A in Foothills Mall, he jumped at it…