Tandem Restaurant Partners will reopen Robilio’s Side Car Cafe within a couple of months.

I own a restaurant in Downtown Memphis, and I can’t tell you the number of times employees ask to leave work at 8 p.m. because they don’t want to miss the only bus they can catch to get home at night. Some will miss out on $40 or $50 in wages because they leave work early.

Memphis Chess Club has transformed itself into a business, and is changing the shopfront space of a Downtown building into a café/coffee shop and its new home.

Entrepreneurs Faith and Mark Lansdon, owners of the Voodoo Café Food Truck, are bringing a little bit of New Orleans to the Bartlett area with a brick-and-mortar store.

Tickets are still available to two events at Caritas and our Friday lunch at Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza; reserve now.

Chocolate Fantasy is back for its 35th year at Agricenter on Saturday. If you have a taste for something else, pasta, pizza, hot dogs, cheese and brews are on the menus at other events this week. 

Food at participating restaurants ranges from West African to smoothies and wraps. 

Moondance Grill is Tommy Peters’ latest restaurant, and there’s plenty to like about the new place in Germantown’s Thornwood development.

When you can’t take the beach cure, there’s always more soup. At Mosa, a bowl of yuan bao is one way to combat the gray-day sniffles.

Domenico Canale would be 177 and a birthday party to celebrate him is Thursday at the Old Dominick Distillery, steps away from the warehouse where he started selling whiskey generations ago.

Domenico Canale’s 177th birthday is a good reason to have a party at Old Dominick, where all the liquor is made in-house.

Cold or wet days lend themselves to a pot of soup; book your seat for Friday lunch; get to Napa Cafe for a piece of buttermilk pie and someone else will get one, too.

Brandon Rodriguez Ornela and his partners — a sister and a cousin — have opened Cool Beans Coffee Shop inside the Cordova International Farmer’s Market on Germantown Road. They hope for future expansion. 

This is about respect for time-honored process in a short-cut world, about pride in completion, about creating something for others. As chef Hallie said, “Baking is hard.”

Hog & Hominy, which burned in an overnight fire, was under renovation and was close to opening.

In the 2010s, we saw real-size people on TV and became experts at streaming. 

Whatever you eat at Brother Juniper’s, it might make your list of favorite things. When you do only breakfast for more than three decades, you get it right.

Cappuccino at Shops of Forest Hill has closed.

Jennifer Biggs and registered dietitian Megan Murphy talk about good habits for the new decade.

The new year doesn’t have to be a time for a full overhaul, but it’s as good a time as any to reflect on changes small and large.

Renowned chef Stephen Stryjewski will cook with Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman at Bishop’s first guest chef dinner.

The Grille, known for chicken on a stick and grilled hot wings, has opened a second location in Cordova.

The Trolley Stop Market on Madison Avenue in the Edge District will close its doors on Jan. 10, owner announces.

Steak by Melissa has closed as construction on I-55 threatens to encroach on property.

Some long-anticipated restaurants opened in 2019. Others quietly popped up and some opened with a bang.