Sound Bites: 10 years of Memphis Black Restaurant Week
It’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week through March 22, and as the event’s founder, Cynthia Daniels does her best to taste, try or at least stop by each of the 20 participating restaurants.
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March 2025
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Black Restaurant Week returns with 11 new restaurants
More than 10 of the restaurants participating in this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week haven’t been open a full year yet.
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March 2024
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Sound Bites: Black Restaurant Week, Downtown dining tips
On this “Sound Bites,” Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington highlight a few favorites from the Black Restaurant Week slate and go deep on where they’d eat and where they’d send visitors within walking distance of FedExForum.
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Grooves and grub: Downtown bistro kicks off Black restaurant week
The Genre, known for its musical atmosphere as well as its food, is one of the many local businesses participating in the ninth annual Memphis Black Restaurant Week.
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March 2023
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MBRW: Sun of a Vegan wants to tempt you with a ‘eureka moment’
Sun of a Vegan’s Collier family wants to help people make a transition to plant-based eating with tacos, nachos, burgers and their signature lasagna.
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$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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Table Talk: Friday jazz lunch begins at Iris this week; we go to Limelight for ours
Restaurant Iris brings a New Orleans classic event to East Memphis when it starts its Friday Jazz lunch this week; our March Friday lunch is at Limelight; and Memphis Black Restaurant Week is in full swing.
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MBRW: Get ‘all the smoke’ at Art House Cafe
Art House Cafe in Soulsville participates in its first Memphis Black Restaurant Week, with a limited menu that includes its “all the smoke” plate with smoked wings, smoked gouda potatoes and smoked cabbage.
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Table Talk: Memphis Black Restaurant Week returns
A number of food events are just around the corner: Memphis Black Restaurant Week, Black Opulence, the Soulful Food Truck Festival, a Friday Matinee Menu, the Cooper-Young Chili Cookoff and a Whataburger giveaway.
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March 2022
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Chef Tam’s path took her from Texas to Memphis to, now, ‘Chopped’
Tamra Patterson, better known as Chef Tam, is a contestant on ‘Chopped’ in April, has a new restaurant in Texas, and has found a happy life in Memphis.
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MBRW: Plant Based Heat serves vegan wings, burgers, comfort food favorites
Plant Based Heat is one of 28 local Black-owned restaurants participating in Memphis Black Restaurant Week.
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Table Talk: Sweet overload, new restaurants and a sad goodbye to a fave
Desserts have been everywhere lately, and they’ve been hard to resist.
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Listen to Cynthia Daniels talk about Memphis Black Restaurant Week
Memphis Black Restaurant Week Cynthia Daniels discusses how the week started, about some of her other events.
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MBRW: Meals For You offers home cooking, generous portions
Meals For You was opened in 2018 by Emma Jean Brown, who died shortly thereafter. But her husband and daughter have kept Meals For You going even though it operated as take-out-only for months.
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MBRW: Mushrooms are the meat at Shroomlicious
The owner of Shroomlicious, one of this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week pop-ups, is focused on buying a food truck and growing the business into a mobile mushroom operation.
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Black Restaurant Week, in 7th year, helps eateries survive, thrive
Last year, Big Momma’s & Granny’s in Bartlett saw sales soar during Memphis Black Restaurant Week. This year’s event runs March 6-12, with 28 restaurants participating.
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March 2021
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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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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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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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Memphis Black Restaurant Week: Bala’s Bistro
A peppered goat curry at Bala’s Bistro is a revelation. The cafe offers a plentiful list of West African dishes, including peanut stew and lamb dibi.
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Memphis Black Restaurant Week: Mahogany Memphis
The restaurant inside Chickasaw Oaks mall serves familiar dishes with a flair personalized by owners Carlee McCullough and VeVe Yates.
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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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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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Memphis Black Restaurant Week: 901 Wings, Mr. P’s Buffalo Wings
Not all wings are equal, but the bar in Memphis is high and both 901 Wings and Mr. P’s clear it.
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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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