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.

Jennifer Biggs, Chris Herrington and Natalie Van Gundy talk takeout and what they’re watching on the tube.

With Tennessee’s safer-in-place order expiring April 30, many restaurants will reopen. Memphis and Shelby County will set a local schedule, but some restaurateurs want to open soon.

Gov. Bill Lee will receive a recommendation to allow dining establishments, closed one month, to reopen May 1, but area restaurateurs say that’s too soon. 

When you start a company that does odd jobs, sometimes you get an odder one than you expected: Two Broke Bartenders can now claim to be cockatoo couriers.

Kelly English is passing out Gibson’s, Elwood’s has a Saturday night steak dinner, and Jimmy Gentry’s corn mash comes back next week.

Countywide coalition of animal welfare agencies has set up a food pantry to help feed pets in times of COVID-19.

Some meals were distributed at St. Patrick Community Outreach Center, St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen and St. Vincent de Paul’s Food Mission.

Take-and-bake “pizza kits” of three of Hog & Hominy’s most elemental pies are available as part of the curbside takeout program at Catherine & Mary’s on South Main. 

The Fresh Market, following CDC recommendations to cover your face, is the first grocery in town asking that shoppers put on face masks before coming in the store.

Pizza from Aldo’s and a Jameson slushie from Aldo Dean’s Slider Inn just down the street makes a great meal to enjoy outside on a nice evening.

What do you do when the cupboard's kinda bare and you're not supposed to go shopping and even if you do the stores are nearly empty?

The local, employee-owned grocery with deep roots in Memphis has rolled up its sleeves and looked to new suppliers to keep its stores stocked.

While many restaurants are struggling during the current pandemic, others like Baby Jacks BBQ have been able to adapt their business models to boost sales.

The Germantown community has laid aside anything that might divide them to rally around healthcare workers and make sure they are well-fed as they continue to care for those in hospitals and those with coronavirus.

Garibaldi’s family meals are good old-fashioned Italian dinners and a bargain; our experience says they serve two meals for four.