All my plans for Mother’s Day ending up going awry, but we ended up with a nice meal and plenty of good cake.

Even Mother's Day didn't lure crowds into area restaurants. This weekend is the first since social distancing began that Shelby County dining establishments could welcome guests for sit-down meals. But many opted for take-out.

The YMCA’s community meal plan is now running seven days a week. A week ago Friday, it fed 18,000 people in one day.

Many restaurants are open and others are opening; use common sense when you’re out to keep public areas safe for everyone. And wear a mask!

An East Memphis restaurant staple for more than 22 years, The Grove Grill closed for COVID-19 and will not reopen.

A sense of community built over six years at the coffee shop will leave lasting memories for customers and those who worked there.

From fresh paint to new floors to expanded bars, Memphis restaurants are getting freshened up while they’ve been shut down.

Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you want to take her out, there are places to go. But there are also plenty of good takeout meals you can enjoy at home.

While takeout continued, Monday lunch was slow at restaurants that opened for the first day of dine-in since mid-March.

Wine dinners have resumed, and now you can participate from your own dining room or even your screened porch. It’s yet another use for Zoom.

Drive-thru, curbside and patio space becoming higher priorities for restaurateurs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

When a group of local Malaysian-American professionals heard that University of Memphis' international students were having trouble keeping food on their plates, they banded together to stage a food drive.

A building permit application filed this week is part of a $20 million project to enlarge and upgrade St. Clair Foods, which makes potato salad and many other refrigerated or frozen side dishes and has an expanded deal with Sam's Club stores.

Restaurateurs have differing opinions on whether the decision to open restaurants on Monday is the right thing to do; some say it’s time, some say it’s too soon.

Three Daily Memphian staffers talk (remotely, of course) about what they're eating these days.

The Paycheck Protection Program loan could be a lifeline to restaurants, or it could be of no use at all. Experts say the loan, and especially its forgiveness criteria, is complicated.

The Lucky Cat takeout menu offers family meals for four or six. The ramen, with ingredients packaged separately, travels surprisingly well. 

The restaurant owner isn’t sure exactly what could be done for employees such as hers who’ve stayed on the job. But she suggests a tax break at year’s end or some kind of stimulus for people who keep putting food on people’s plates.

Tortas and tacos and elote — oh my! Las Tortugas reopened for curbside and delivery, at the Germantown Road location only.

Room service was never so varied as the Westin Beale Street's dinner offering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests can get meals delivered to their rooms free from eight restaurants.

Restaurants in adjoining counties were able to open Monday; at Las Margaritas in Atoka, the crowd was thin but glad to be eating Mexican food again.

We’ll stay at home and stay safe from coronavirus, but that doesn’t protect us from cookies and cakes when they’re still pretty easy to get.

Employees receiving generous unemployment benefits can make it hard for restaurateurs to have adequate staff when it’s time to reopen and to meet their PPP forgiveness requirements.

Joes on Highland is serving its regular menu and family meals to go, and fried chicken, it turns out, is the rare fried food that travels well.

Sugar Avenue bakery had a name and a website, but it took a crisis and a desire to do something happy to bring it to fruition.