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.
Joshua Carlucci
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March 2024
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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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$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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$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: 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.
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Food News Supper Club to reopen with Chef Tam
“Today I don’t want to own (a restaurant), but I can never stop cooking,” Chef Tamra Patterson said. “Cooking is in my blood — it’s all I know to do.”
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: City Silo’s Hen House sandwich is a quick, satisfying lunch
Getting out of a “health food” restaurant for under $20 feels like a grand accomplishment, and this chicken-and-egg sandwich hits the mark.
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April 2024
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Petals of a Peony’s lunch specials
Petals of a Peony offers lunch specials on some of its most popular dishes, and if you throw garlic into a recipe without noticing the amount called for, at least one of them is for you.
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Food News‘Ghost’ pop-up brings sushi to Hi-Tone
Darren Phillips learned how to make sushi at Downtown’s Bluefin about a decade ago, but it’s only recently that he began Yokai, a pop-up concept of his own.
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Food NewsNew Eats: At EnV, a search for a chef leads to crowd-pleasing menu
Hookah, Southern brunch and lavish decor are on the menu at EnV.
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Food News When customers called for hibachi, Sakura answered
Sakura, a Japanese restaurant with three Shelby County locations, has added an extensive new section to its menu.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: The Mad Grocer’s pastrami sandwich and boudin po’boy
When I see a hot pastrami sandwich on a menu, it’s tough to stay away. While ordering one at The Mad Grocer when I noticed a crispy boudin po’boy and nearly switched. Then I thought: Why not both?
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Breakfast at Bob’s Barksdale
Joshua Carlucci’s order at Bob’s Barksdale is simple, but it always delivers. It’s a short stack (two pancakes) with country ham as well as two eggs — sunny side up — on the side, if he’s really hungry.
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Food NewsSecret Smash Society founders to open Hard Times Deli
The chefs affectionately known around Memphis as the “Patty Daddys” are opening a new restaurant where they can support their families and “not have to work for the man.”
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FoodVietnamese pop-up goes from one-off to two permanent locations
Mochi and Mi is opening in Southaven in May, but it’s already serving bahn mi sandwiches, vermicelli bowls and — of course — mochi donuts in Memphis.
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Food NewsAt Aldar, Memphians can get a taste of Yemen
Suffice it to say that Aldar Cafe owner Hassan Alwadi takes his coffee seriously: He used to watch his grandmother pick coffee cherries from the family garden, dry them, crush them and roast them.
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May 2024
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Mi Tierra’s Bandeja Paisa is a dish for any meal
There are quite a few variations on the Bandeja Paisa, but at Mi Tierra, it’s a heavy plate.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Belltower’s chicken sando
It might sound boring to spend too much time talking up a chicken sandwich, but Belltower’s is a sleeper hit.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: When it comes to Kinfolk’s breakfast, you can’t miss
Kinfolk is breakfast food for people who are into food, but it’s far from pretentious. It’s blue-collar-baller, if you will. Truck-stop-gourmet.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Queen of Sheba’s lamb sub and labnah
“I’d never really thought of lamb as much of a sandwich meat, outside the context of the Basque food or in a gyro. This one, though, is full American style, on a hero roll with mayo, lettuce, tomatoes and onions.”
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Food News At MIM, BBQ Alley is ‘for the people,’ pitmaster says
BBQ Alley is perfect for those World Champsionship Barbecue Cooking Contest attendees who aren’t part of, or friends with anyone on, a competition team.
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Food News New Zealand’s BBQ War is bringing the heat — and the ink
BBQ War is the team that traveled the farthest for this year’s MIM, and despite the team’s name, they’re making new friends left and right. But what they really want are the bragging rights.
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Food News Party team? Competition team? Sweet Cheeks does it all at SmokeSlam
“We didn’t want to split up,” Sweet Cheeks team captain Alex Boggs said. “Winning is great. That’s not what this week is about. This week is about cutting out from work for a little bit, hanging out with some of your best friends in the world.”
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Zio Matto hits the spot when it’s hot
At Zio Matto, American flavors such as peanut butter chocolate chip and honey vanilla ride sidesaddle to classic Italian flavors like stracciatella, pistachio, gianduia and fior di latte.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Indian food at Sai Biryani Point
As the name somewhat implies, everyone at Sai Biryani Point was eating biryani, but the paneer pakora is worth writing home — or Google Maps — about.
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