$10 Deal: Lunch at Sekisui Midtown
This Daily Memphian food writer looks for a fine balance between quantity and quality in everyday sushi, and he said Sekisui straddles that line with the best of them.
Joshua Carlucci
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Global Cafe’s sambusas, soup and sandwiches
Nearly all of Global Cafe’s starters are under the $10 deal mark.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Slider Inn’s Chicago Dog gets Chi-Town style right
While it’s not perfect, Slider Inn serves up a very solid iteration of the beloved Chicago dog.
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Food NewsNew Eats: Smurfey’s Smokehouse BBQ & Breakfast
Smurfey’s is a barbecue joint but not in the traditional sense. The owners aren’t serving piles of pork with slices of bread. On this menu, smoked meat is served mostly piled atop tortilla chips, fries or baked potatoes.
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Food News Memphis’ March food events will have you hopping
Whether you’re looking for something boozy, bougie, beneficial, or involving a bunny, we’ve got you covered.
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February 2024
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Tuyen’s shrimp on a stick and tofu vermicelli
At Tuyen’s Asian Bistro, the shrimp on a stick are visually fascinating. The crispy noodles are bundled tightly around the crustaceans like straight jackets, with the shrimp tails just barely popping out at the end.
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Food News ‘Bite of Memphis’ brings food stories home
For a new play, LoneTree Live interviewed eight members of Memphis’ culinary scene and put together their thoughts on everything from catfish and spaghetti to solving food insecurity.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Senegalese appetizers at Le Fuuta
All the appetizers on Le Fuuta’s menu are $10: fataya, fried Senegalese meat pies; akara, fried ground bean cake; and rissoles, meat patties with breadcrumbs and beignets.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Tacos dorados and enchiladas at Rincon Catracho
If you’re lucky enough to find yourself at Rincon Catracho, look to the first page of the menu, at the entradas — the starters.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Lunch combo and dessert at the Castle
You simply must end your meal with the baklava. If you’re too full already, take it to go.
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Food News With mixers broken, Gibson’s leans on cake doughnuts
Both of Gibson’s Donuts’ large standing mixers broke this past weekend, and no mixers means no quintessential, fluffy, yeast-raised doughnuts.
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Food News February is chock-full of happenings, hangs and hearts
Need ideas for Valentine’s Day? Check out our list of fun food events occurring during this leap month.
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$10 Deals $10 deal: Plant Based Heat’s smoked ‘sausage’ sandwich and sides
The sausage is not too greasy or dry, as some store-bought vegan “meats” can be. The peppers and onions give the sandwich an Italian-American familiarity, but the barbecue sauce and slaw take it down a Southern tangent.
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January 2024
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Food NewsDive bar ‘for Fun Times and Friendship’ opens Saturday
“A good dive bar should feel old and unassuming, have cheap but good drinks and a great atmosphere,” owner Louis Connelly said.
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Food News Jack Brown’s is bringing beer, burgers and plenty of bold toppings
The concept of Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint is simple: aside from french fries, a couple of grilled cheeses and a deep-fried Oreo, the only items on the menu are burgers and beers.
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Food NewsGus’s joins ‘Chicken Sandwich Wars’
Technically, this isn’t Gus’s first fried chicken sandwich — that came 70 years ago — but the new one is a year in the making.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: A Parisian delight at Buster’s Butcher
The ethos behind a jambon beurre is quality and simplicity, and Buster’s version of the sandwich is très bien.
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Food NewsWith weather and boil-water advisory, it’s ‘a fun time to be a bar’
Recent winter weather coupled with MLGW’s indefinite boil-water advisory is making life a little bit more challenging for restaurants as they have to figure out what to do about food, drinks and even the restrooms.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: A mini chicken dum biryani that’s not small at all
And then there’s the stuffed mirchi bajji, which are battered and fried green chilis — and they still have their seeds inside.
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BusinessWaiting on change: Restaurant workers look to insurance, benefits
“Everything in our industry kind of changed post-COVID. Everybody wants to make $20 an hour and they want benefits,”said one local restaurateur. “The industry has never really been set up for that.”
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Food NewsFamily business expanding to include South American bakery
“I like the bakery more than the kitchen, so I wanted to bring something new to Memphis — its first South American bakery,” said one of the owners of Cevicheria and Grill Chilemon.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Los Picosos’ pollo al carbon is a smoky good deal
The word is out about the magical chicken Los Picosos is selling.
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Food NewsDry January: Good for health, bad for breweries?
At Tennessee breweries such as Crosstown Brewing Co., January is the slowest month of the year for sales.
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Food News What happened when Guy Fieri went to Wiseacre
“I was smiling ear-to-ear a couple of days in a row. Like, my face hurt,” said Little Bettie head chef Jared Riddle after “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” shot an episode at Wiseacre Brewing Co’s Downtown pizza bar.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Le Delights lives up to its name
If you’ve never heard of Vietnamese beef jerky rolls — known as goi du du kho bo cuon — you’re in for a treat.
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