If there’s one thing happening this weekend, it’s food. You can go to two different food festivals on both Saturday and Sunday. 

Not only is the famed barbecue restaurant reopening Friday, April 17, but Big Bill himself is now managing the day-to-day kitchen operations.

Stix Express Downtown will close Friday, April 24. Meanwhile, two coffee locations have made progress toward opening. 

Last month, writer Erica Horton noticed a new lunch offering from Hustle & Dough: a burger with white cheddar, bacon-onion jam, horseradish aioli, lots of bread and butter pickles and a potato bun.

On Leap Day 2008, Kat Gordon opened a small cupcake shop in East Memphis’ Sanderlin Centre. Over the past 18 years, she has grown and restructured her beloved bakery in some unexpected ways.

’Tis the season to flip a menu.

Memphis native Teddy Jasper Sr. and his son plan to re-open the space this summer.

With the nearby courthouse and law offices circling the DeSoto County square in Hernando, The Docket seemed like a valid name for a new restaurant, even though the owners have a medical background.

Big Bad Breakfast is taking over a former restaurant space.

An indoor farmers market is becoming a small farm-to-fork restaurant. 

Smackers has leaned into a celebrity-endorsement strategy that includes Rick Ross, NeNe Leakes and Megan Thee Stallion — but that only works if the food delivers.

City Hall Cheesecake owner Kim Daly used to be frustrated that ex-offenders weren’t given second chances. Then she decided she could do something about it by buying a bakery.

Alexander Babb initially went to bartending school due to a loophole in an informal contract with his father. 

Since we can no longer pop by his Cooper-Young restaurant to order some, chef Ryan Trimm shared the recipe for his over-the-top nachos.

Dutch Bros Coffee is joining several other coffee outlets along U.S. 64 in Lakeland, while the business is also spreading into Bartlett. 

More gyros are coming to Collierville, and a second Memphis Raising Cane’s is planning its grand opening party. 

At Órale, diners choose from a variety of toppings for their huarache, ranging from carne asada, carnitas, grilled shrimp, chorizo sausage or just vegetables. 

At the international expo for coffee purveyors, Memphis’ Cxffeeblack plans to pose a question: What would happen to the coffee industry if farmers were paid each time their beans were sold?

With Cajun delicacies from crawfish to shrimp, the second-annual Bayou Bash is slated for Saturday in Bartlett with hopes for better weather than the rainy first year.

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.

The Second Line opened at 4550 Poplar Ave. on Wednesday, April 8, once again serving Cajun-Creole cuisine that includes po’boys, gumbo, red beans, crawfish, and pimento cheese fries. 

“From the middle of April through the Fourth of July, things get kind of crazy,” owner Chris Taylor said. “We’re really busy.”

The restaurateurs behind Sam’s Main Street Eatery and La Roche Lebanese Cuisine are opening a bakery. 

The brother-sister duo behind Wang’s is saying goodbye.

Be sure to make extra biscuits so you can make stuffed biscuit sandwiches with your leftovers.