If you want to eat at RP Tracks, starting this week, you have to show your vaccination card or negative COVID test. The first day of the new practice went smoothly for the University area restaurant. 

It’s a long trip from Boston to Memphis, but the cold-water cod for the fish and chips at The Majestic Grille gets here fast, flown in each week.

Restaurateurs worry that Shelby County’s new mask mandate might scare customers, but prefer it over more stringent restrictions on their businesses.

It’s one thing to get rid of bookshelves; getting rid of the cookbooks they held turns out to be a little harder.

Jennifer Biggs shares her recipe for Butternut Squash with Dukkah.

Boscos might be a full-service restaurant and bar, but it’s also a brewery and, even more, it was the first new one to open in Tennessee since the repeal of Prohibition.

The Memphis Redbirds are getting in the barbecue spirit with an upcoming weekend ribs competition; they’re even changing the team name for two games.

A pleasant surprise on the scale inspires a renewed interest in cooking at home.

A zero-waste goal and humble leftovers come together to make a stellar dish for the bar menu at Dory.

Bryant Bain starts a dinner series to raise money for a bigger smoker, and Peggy’s Healthy Home Cooking has moved about a mile west, from Cleveland to Crump.

An unsolicited recipe that you’ll appreciate is in this week’s Recipe Exchange; two new Midtown restaurants are on the way; food truck news for you too.

Fresh Apple Cake is simple enough for anyone to make and it’s delicious, like pineapple upside down cake without the pineapple.

Today is the third Wednesday in July, also known as National Hot Dog Day; Jennifer and Chris tried a few to come up with some recommendations for you.

Chef and restaurateur Kelly English’s former Restaurant Iris, near Overton Square, will be reborn as Pantà.

Kelly English has joined the Memphis Food and Wine Festival lineup for October; James Beard-winning cookbook author Martha Foose will sign books at the Beauty Shop July 31.

It was an eventful week for Torchy’s and for the neighborhood surrounding Williamsburg Village; the recipe for Chicken Kingfield from the old Harry’s on Teur is delivered.

Sweet Pea’s Southern Cooking in Bartlett serves a nice vegetable plate and numerous lunch specials for less than $10.

By the Brewery is a new restaurant Downtown, conveniently just across the street from where The Daily Memphian is moving. 

Folks say they love to share their favorite recipes, so it’s up to us to ask for them. Start sending in your requests for recipes and I’ll do my best to get them for you.

Tickets are available for the June 4 event at Memphis Zoo. And the May 25 dinner at Dory in East Memphis will feature French wines from Michael Corso Selections.

The Austin-based taco restaurant will open at the end of June in Williamsburg Village Shopping Center on Mendenhall.

Another Memphis in May is in the books, and here’s the roundup (with a recipe you need in your life). Also, LBOE is closing and Greys Fine Cheese and Entertaining is open.

Greys Fine Cheese and Entertaining is a welcome addition to East Memphis that will bring in cheese lovers from all around the area.

Steph Cook is at Rawk’n Grub Side Stage, back inside a gas station, this one in Olive Branch.