Memphis Black Restaurant Week: Trap Fusion
Memphis Black Restaurant Week runs through March 13 and we’ll take you to a participating restaurant every day. Today, it’s Trap Fusion.
Jennifer Biggs
Food and Dining Editor
Jennifer Biggs is a native Memphian and veteran food writer and journalist who covers all things food, dining and spirits related for The Daily Memphian.
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Food NewsLa Baguette goes to the Tashies, and 2nd location’s already in the works
First they bought the iconic Bryant’s Breakfast. Before the week was over, Judd and David Tashie had the keys to La Baguette, a bakery beloved by Memphians for 45 years. And they’re here to preserve it, Judd Tashie says.
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Food News Cynthia Daniels talks Memphis Black Restaurant Week
Memphis Black Restaurant Week is in its sixth year, adapted for COVID this year, but going on with more participating restaurants than ever.
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Food Table Talk: Black Restaurant Week, fish for everyone, and the Tashies take over
The food at Dory, the Tashies acquire two local favorites, and we take you inside some of the restaurants participating in Memphis Black Restaurant Week.
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Food News It’s Lent, so here are some good fish recommendations
If you give up meat for Lent and only eat fish, do you still get credit if you love it? Does it still count?
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Reviews Memphis Black Restaurant Week: Curry N Jerk
Curry N Jerk delivers Caribbean dishes for dinner only these days, but the food is rich and hearty, and someone’s been driving all over town to get enough oxtails for the week.
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Coronavirus Next health directive expected to relax restaurant rules
Look for later hours, bigger tables, less red tape and even a slight loosening of mask use for restaurants under the next health directive.
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Reviews Memphis Black Restaurant Week: A&R Bar-B-Q
A&R Bar-B-Q has been around since 1983 and was one of 21 participating restaurants in this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week, which concludes March 13.
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Food Muddy’s one of South’s ‘Best Bakeries 2021’
Muddy’s Bake Shop makes the list of Southern Living magazine’s best bakeries for the year.
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Food News Table Talk: Muddy’s makes a ‘Best’ list, restaurant rules relax
Kat Gordon’s bakery has received national and international accolades, but this one really gave her a thrill because it was the first to use the Broad Avenue address as her location.
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Food News Kelly English on what a year of COVID has been like for him and his industry
The year since local restaurants were first shut for coronavirus has been hard; Kelly English talks about what it’s been like for him.
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Food News After a year on life support, restaurants start to ‘see some light’
It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’
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Chef Kelly English recalls a dark year: ‘My industry will never be the same'
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Food The Parish opens in Hernando, and Parish Grocery moves to Cooper-Young
Parish Grocery is moving from Overton Park to Cooper-Young; The Parish has opened in Hernando; and One & Only BBQ has reopened on Perkins Ext.
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Sound Bites Catfish, favorite dishes from Memphis Black Restaurant Week
Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington revisit their favorites from Memphis Black Restaurant Week and talk about their favorite Southern dish: Fried catfish.
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Food News Downtown’s Majestic Grille reopening next month
After more than a year, The Majestic Grille is reopening on South Main, all spiffed up and ready to go with most of its original menu and familiar faces.
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Food NewsExclusive: Bari finds balance and flexibility in a new space down the street
Bari will leave its home of 19 years in May and move to a former yoga studio on Cooper, where it will have room to expand outdoor seating and parking.
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Table Talk Table Talk: A year in COVID and big news from two favorite restaurants
We look back at the year in COVID, hear what it’s been like for a restaurateur, and get the good news from The Majestic Grille and Bari: One is opening and one is moving.
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Food News MemPops turns 5, offers customers a sweet deal to celebrate
For its fifth birthday, MemPops offers a $2 birthday special in its three brick-and-mortar locations this weekend.
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Reviews Ecco is tucked away alone, but it would be a mistake to forget it
Though Ecco sits off the beaten path, it’s a treasure tucked away in Evergreen. The food is good as ever and there’s plenty of outdoor seating with more coming.
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Food News Limited Memphis in May BBQ tickets available starting today
The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is back after sitting out 2020.
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Table Talk Table Talk: The Majestic reopens, BBQ tickets are on sale, and Ecco is lovely as ever
Dining at Ecco, a secret about Slim Chickens, Memphis in May Barbecue is back, and The Majestic Grille is opening this week.
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ReviewsNew Eats: Andalusia brings Moroccan flavor to Sanderlin Centre
Andalusia opens, adding Moroccan cuisine to the line-up of good food available on Sanderlin in East Memphis.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Taqueria San Felipe
For $4, you can get a torta that’s roughly the size of a regular barbecue sandwich at a small taqueria on the edge of Bartlett.
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Sound Bites Majestic Grille owners talk about reopening
Deni and Patrick Reilly, the husband and wife team that own The Majestic Grille, are back on Friday and they have the restaurant shined and ready to welcome guests.
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Food News Joes’ Fried Chicken is closed, but only until a new home is found
Joes’ Fried Chicken, Joes on Highland — whatever you wanted to call it — is closed for now but will open again as soon as the owners find a new place.
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