The inaugural Mekong festival celebrated the Vietnamese, Lao, Cambodian and Thai families who first came to Memphis, specifically the area around Cleveland Street, 50 years ago as refugees from the Vietnam War.
When people ask why their patty melt is called the Bonnie Melt, owner Angelia Filka always replies, “Bonnie did it better.”
Ever since Sophia Surrett first heard that Buffalo Wild Wings Go would share space with Dunkin’ on Poplar Avenue, she’s been intrigued to see how the two concepts work in one building.
If you’ve been startled by Kroger’s newest — and autonomous — employee, you’re not alone.
The seventh annual Reharvest Memphis competition at Crosstown Concourse will challenge chefs to create dishes with imperfect produce and surplus ingredients.
Ronnie Grisanti’s executive manager wants to bring people back into the restaurant instead of just watching the “food go out the door.”
In some ways, Memphians seem to have a love/hate relationship with restaurant franchises.
“Walking into El Agave off Poplar Avenue felt like a dream, mainly because I had been staring at the lights-on-no-one’s-home San Diego Cantina building for years.”
“To celebrate my most recent turn around the sun, my family and I had what I would call a true family-style dinner.”
Bar Limina hosts oyster happy hour every Friday from 4 p.m. until the restaurant sells out.
When it comes to sporting events, food is important. So important that food specials seem to be one way local sporting events are trying to attract more spectators.
Food writer Sophia Surrett recently celebrated the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll with catfish, hush puppies and baked beans.
“The cornerstone of a pizza place is a good cheese pizza,” said Tamboli’s owner Miles Tamboli.
The breakfast and lunch diner has a new weekday morning special, “Grumpy Hour,” offering customers any menu entree, except the steak and eggs, plus drip coffee for only $10 from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Wild Beet Salad Co. recently launched a breakfast menu with mini pancakes, acai bowls, egg sandwiches but no, there are no breakfast salads.
“I decided to splurge a little more and bought a Chulux espresso machine with a milk frother for $99, about what a month’s worth of lattes would cost if I had one three times a week.”
Food writer Sophia Surrett says she’s always preferred local produce, and “you might say I love local food from my head to-mah-toes.”
Bar Limina hosted a sold-out Steak Night late last month with chefs from Kinfolk, Hard Times Deli and Gussied Up.
Umami Amora was a seven-course dinner, each course created by a local Black chef who chose an emotion to inspire their dish.
Though a native Memphian, Kyle Garhain went to culinary school in Cuba, and he started leading food tours of the country in 2019.
Le Bon Appétit brought a crowd of hundreds to Downtown Memphis, where they sampled offerings from 28 chefs and drinks from four mixologists.
Chicken Parmesan is one of food writer Sophia Surrett’s go-to dishes whenever she eats at a restaurant with it on the menu.
Kinfolk owner Cole Jeanes was the chef for both the first and the most recent Etowah Collective Dinner.
I polled The Daily Memphian’s staff on what our barbecue team’s name should be, if we had one. The answers were pretty incredible.
It’s the 48th year for the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, and it’s a homecoming of sorts for some of the teams that participated in rival barbecue festival SmokeSlam for the past two years.
“I normally would have said no to a skewered sea creature, but as The Daily Memphian’s new food reporter, I know there are times I’ll need to get out of my culinary comfort zone.”
This week’s Table Talk comes to you from Sophia Surrett, The Daily Memphian’s new food and restaurant reporter.
’Tis the season to flip a menu.
Despite being loved by foodies the world over, soul food also has a reputation for being salt-laden, artery-clogging, butter-soaked cuisine. But a Memphis-born chef wants to prove that’s not all soul food has to be.