On this week’s Sound Bites, digital director Holly Whitfield and I talk about some food stories we’ve each recently written and one recent Memphis food event we both missed. 

A couple of weeks ago, I published a selective guide to restaurants and other food haunts along Germantown Parkway, Memphis’ suburban superhighway. We talk about a couple of Whitfield’s favorites from that list, and a couple she hasn’t gotten to yet. 

Table Talk: Memphis Made, Central go whole hog; Second Line’s Oktoberfest

Whitfield explored the menu at Liquor Store East, the latest restaurant at a particularly hoppin’ corner of the Poplar Corridor. We talk about how the Liquor Store is giving East Memphis a much-needed local coffee-shop option, how they do right by meatloaf and how they’re bringing one particular Memphis dish to a potential new audience. 

Then, finally, we discuss the double-edged success of the recent Asian Night Market at Crosstown, a classic example of the “nobody went because it was too popular” paradox, and what it promises for the potential growth of the Asian food scene in Memphis.