Local officials and business leaders celebrate the recent opening of The Market House restaurant in Jackson Square with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning.

A new restaurant in Jackson Square emphasizes a “farm-to-table” concept, and the owners use, as often as possible, food and beverage products purchased from local farmers, bakers, and brewers.

“There’s not a meal that we have that doesn’t have a local product in it,” said one of the owners, Bo Shipley.

“We keep it as local as possible, keep it as fresh as we can,” said the other owner, Dan Tremaine.

Shipley and Tremaine opened The Market House restaurant on East Tennessee Avenue in Jackson Square on May 8. Local officials and business leaders celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday.

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