Former nurse and chef is behind Rawgirls’ revival
When the new Rawgirls owner Laura Wegner saw an opportunity to merge her culinary roots with her health care expertise, she didn’t hesitate.
Topic: Restaurants
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January 2025
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Flappers welcome at Memphis Restaurant Association’s Food Festival
The Memphis Restaurant Association is looking to the past, roughly 100 years to the past, for its annual February food festival.
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December 2024
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$10 Deal: At El Pollo Latino, rotisserie chicken is undeniably the star
For $10.50, you’ll get half a portion of their pollo asado, a firewood-smoked rotisserie chicken that’s tender, juicy and steeped in a subtle smokiness.
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October 2024
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Maciel’s latest is a taqueria, not tortas and tacos, and it’s open
Maciel’s Taqueria has been in the works for more than a year and is now flaunting its street food swagger with an extensive offering of all things meat and tortillas.
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Fire shuts down Summer Avenue Tops Bar-B-Q
No one was injured in the early morning blaze, believed to be the result of mechanical issues. The damaged location at 3353 Summer Ave. at National St. There’s also a Tops at 4183 Summer Ave. at Berclair that was not affected.
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September 2024
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Tous Les Jours opening Memphis location
Tous Les Jours, a French-Asian bakery that has more than 1,600 locations worldwide, will also joined by the opening of Lao Sze Chuan, a Chinese restaurant chain based in Chicago.
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August 2024
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More on the menu with Tsunami’s Ben Smith
At Tsunami, the owner ships in fresh fish from around the world, and he likes to order whole fish so he can control portion sizes.
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July 2024
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Chance encounter leads to new Mexican restaurant in Bartlett
The Bartlett space has been home to many businesses over the years; now a longtime restaurant owner and a U.S. Army vet have partnered to open Santa Ana.
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June 2024
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Hooters shutters locations nationwide as inflation rises
The Hooters at 7535 Winchester Road could be a victim of the chain’s national closures.
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Food Files: Raising Cane’s Chicken coming; Cookie Plug, Groovy Gratitude open
Another Raising Cane’s is coming to Memphis, plus hip-hop-inspired cookie franchise Cookie Plug and smoothie shop Groovy Gratitude are now open.
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Huey’s to appear on ‘America’s Best Restaurants’
The web series came to Memphis this week to feature one of the city’s family-owned businesses.
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Award-winning East Memphis restaurant to close
The restaurant from Chef David Krog and his wife Amanda opened to acclaim, receiving national attention for its innovative dishes and use of local and seasonal ingredients.
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May 2024
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Vote for the best Memphis pizza place
In honor of our series on Memphis-style pizza, The Daily Memphian is asking our readers to choose the best Memphis restaurant to get pizza.
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Red Lobster closures put seafood lovers in a pinch
Red Lobster mulls bankruptcy while closing 48 locations, including the one on Winchester Road.
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Summer food tour: 15 faves on Germantown Parkway
Chris Herrington sounds off on some of his favorite places to eat along Germantown Parkway, including Cedars Restaurant, Two Empanadas, Germantown Commissary and more.
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Eat barbecue and drink beer at Memphis’ May food festivals
While the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and SmokeSlam dominate Memphis’ May food-event lineup, there are other things to eat this month, too, from food-truck fare to high tea.
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April 2024
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Vietnamese 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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March 2024
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$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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Boycott Coffee to add Downtown delivery
“We get calls from Grubhub and Uber to add this on, and it’s hard to justify a customer paying the fee for one drink,” said one of Boycott Coffee’s co-owners. “It’s also hard to trust the drink is going to get there safe and sound.”
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February 2024
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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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City Silo is moving to larger East Memphis space
“The former Cosmic Coconut space, where it all began, will always hold a special place in our hearts,” City Silo’s co-owner said.
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January 2024
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Kukuruku Crispy Chicken plans Bartlett expansion
A crispy Filipino chicken approach in Lakeland has achieved enough success in its early operation that the owner is expanding to the west end of Bartlett.
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Waiting 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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$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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December 2023
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Your guide to Memphis’ holiday pop-up bars
Here are a few holiday pop-up bars in the Memphis area that have decked the halls this year.
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