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New Eats: Bog & Barley is open and you can eat and drink like the Irish
Bog & Barley is the whole package: Beautiful space, friendly people, big bar — and great food.
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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April 2023
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Deviled Egg Salad
You can serve deviled eggs at your Easter table or you could take a few extra minutes and make an impressive deviled egg salad.
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Sound Bites Catching up on this and that with Jennifer and Chris
After a missed week, Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington have a lot to squeeze in 30 minutes on this week’s Sound Bites.
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Food Buster’s to open second Liquors & Wines location in the fall
It’s going to be a big year for Buster’s: In addition to the new butcher shop, the Hammonds are opening a second, larger liquor store at Ridgeway Trace in November.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Wiseacre Brewing Co. is celebrating a decade in business
Plus, we caught Seessel’s fever, and we’re headed to Cocozza for our next Friday reader lunch. Tickets go on sale today.
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East Memphis Liquor Store location coming to Williamsburg Village
We’ll have one more breakfast/brunch option next month when the second location of The Liquor Store opens at Williamsburg Village.
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Food News ‘Chef corps’ heads to help in Covington and Wynne
World Central Kitchen and local volunteers are delivering meals to folks in need in Covington and Wynne, Arkansas.
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Food NewsNew Eats: With more than 100 items on the menu, Tommy’s Burgers has a bit of everything
Tommy’s Burgers has opened in the old CK’s at Park Avenue and Mt. Moriah Road with an extensive, diner-like menu with a Mexican twist.
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RecipesRecipe Exchange: Seessel’s Lemon Butter Pie
We gave you the Seessel’s chocolate butter pie for a holiday gift and now we’re back with the Seessel’s lemon butter pie for your Easter dessert spread.
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March 2023
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Food NewsSeessel’s grocery stores, closed now for 25 years, are still missed
The story of Seessel’s, which spans five generations and 140 years, started with “The Great Butcher of Memphis.” Even now, 25 years after the stores were sold, people can still remember the taste of the grocer’s cakes and pies.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Memphis Farmers Market opens this weekend
Plus, get a sneak peek at Bog & Barley, an upscale vegan cheese place and a new neighborhood restaurant near Poplar and Perkins.
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Food ‘One of the finest pubs in Ireland’ in Memphis: Bog & Barley opens next week
To build out the new Bog & Barley, 447 pieces of the restaurant were built in Ireland, taken apart, boxed up, shipped here and then reassembled. Here’s a sneak peek before it opens next week.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Pat Klinke’s Rum Cake
Pat Klinke’s rum cake is as legendary as her fundraising with the Le Bonheur Club, which is turning 100 this year.
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Sound Bites We love brownies, so why don’t we exalt them like pie?
Sure, most of us liked brownies when we were kids and plenty of us still do, but what’s keeping it from having its heyday?
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Food News New Eats: 901 Hot Pot is a ticket (and a table grill) that’s hot
901 Hot Pot & Korean BBQ is communal, it’s fun and diners are feasting on a selection of more than 100 items they cook themselves, right at the table.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Bog & Barley opens next month, Celebrity’s closes — maybe temporarily
Plus, a substantial giveaway from Jersey Mike’s, a Tennessee pizza and beer place makes it into Halo and how much would you pay for your favorite cocktail.
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Kitchen Talk: Ryan Trimm
Corn dogs at Next Door aren’t your everyday mutt; these come out for special occasions and can be fried up in your backyard.
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Real Estate Buster’s owners opening butcher shop next door
“We’re excited. We feel like the market is underserved for independent butchers, and it’s great that we’ll have butchers who know to cook,” said one of the store’s owners.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Muddy’s Bake Shop Therapy Brownies
When asked, Muddy’s Bake Shop owner Kat Gordon was happy to go to the vault and pull out her retired recipe for Therapy Brownies; she even made a bake-along video.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Elvis and Mario at Cocozza, Breakfast for Dinner, a gala and more
Cocozza gets new artwork, 901 Hot Pot & Korean BBQ is opening, a fancy gala is coming up and you can get your tickets today for next month’s Breakfast for Dinner at First Congo.
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Food NewsCosts in the cart: Grocery store prices continue to rise, sometimes by double digit percentages
The Daily Memphian takes a look at just how much higher grocery prices are at the local market leaders over the past three years, why they’re so high and where shoppers might find the best deals.
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Recipes Recipe Exchange: Jamaican Beef Patties
A trip to Evelyn & Olive this week had our food writer wondering how much trouble it would be to make Jamaican Beef Patties at home. The answer: No yeast, no frying and just a basic crust you knead by hand.
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FoodMemphis in May tells 35 barbecue teams they can’t compete due to space
Memphis in May used a number of factors to decide what teams wouldn’t make the cut for this year’s scaled-down World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Tom Lee Park.
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$15 Deals $10 Deal: Evelyn & Olive’s fish tacos and Conscious Curry
Jamaica natives Wayne Lumsden and his wife bought Evelyn & Olive in 2018 and kept the menu but changed the preparation of the dishes to make them more authentic.
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Sound Bites Spice itself is the spice of life, at least in the kitchen
Keeping the pantry stocked with spices is key to be able to cook up a good meal; Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington discuss the most important ones.
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