A sure sign of summer (besides 100 degree temps) is here; the Summer Avenue tour continues; and you tell us what we should do next.

The latest installment of our Summer Avenue restaurant guide includes the small stretch that might be the culinary heart of the street. 

Gazpacho Blanca is an easy and refreshing light lunch or a nice snack on hot days.

The Sift Bakery plans to open its first brick-and-mortar location Saturday, July 2. Lonisa Bowen, also known as Lala, offers more than 60 flavors of macarons.

Pho So 8 serves Vietnamese food at the corner of Ridgeway and Winchester roads, and you can shop in the attached global market after your meal.

Tuyen’s Asian Bistro will bring back many Saigon Le favorites, Summer Avenue Part 2 awaits you, and read about the Marmalade.

The second installment of our Summer Avenue tour takes us to diverse places such as Nagasaki, Willie Mae’s, and two favorite Mexican restaurants.

“Everybody says it’s time to do Saigon Le,” said Tuyen Le, one of the sisters who worked at the Midtown restaurant. “They say they want the good food back.”

With some sit-down Japanese, some classic takeout Chinese and the unlikely union of meat-and-three and Thai, the second installment of our Summer Avenue food guide reaches a stretch of the street where “old Memphis” and “international Memphis” are often one and the same.

Almost a decade before the National Civil Rights Museum opened, the Marmalade Restaurant and Lounge thrived on Calhoun Avenue.

Local nonprofit, Operation Better Days, is holding a Beer and Brat Festival fundraiser July 1 at Grind City Brewing Co. to help transitioning veterans and their families. 

The pimento cheese recipe from Magnolia & May as requested and, bonus, it was also the pimento cheese from The Grove Grill.

Memphis Sandwich Clique cofounder Ryan Hopgood’s family was prepared to donate his organs. Now they’re calling his recovery a miracle.

Flaky kathi rolls and savory, crunchy samosa chaat are part of the “Nawab’s Specials” menu. The restaurant’s street food dishes range from $6.99 to $8.99 each.

After opening during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, East Memphis’ Magnolia & May has brought back lunch. 

Friday lunch is back. We’ll be at Salt|Soy on July 8, so make your reservations now. And our Summer Avenue series has started with a guide to the west end of the street. 

On this week’s Sound Bites, Jennifer and Chris talk about the first leg of their Summer Avenue tour, from East Parkway to Highland.

On the first day of Summer, we begin our food tour of Summer Avenue — “one long, rolling unofficial international market” — with the roughly 2-mile section on the west end where you’ll find several of the street’s best-kept secrets.

What Sriracha shortage? Whip up a batch in your kitchen and you won’t have to worry about running out of “rooster” sauce this summer.

Riverview Acquisition Corp. — a special-purpose acquisition company formed by longtime Memphian Brad Martin as a vehicle for merging with a business that then would become public — aims to help small farmers while quenching the thirst for coffees, teas and extracts.

The Castle has a bargain-priced menu across the board, it’s all made from scratch, and it’s all delicious.

Le Bon Appetit was a nice event, and eating food from visiting chefs is a great way to get an idea of what we’d like to have here.

Chris and Jennifer talk about food they’ve recently eaten and the talk turns to the creative street food dishes that they both like so much.

Cynthia Daniels brings the Memphis Vegan Festival to the Pipkin Building on Saturday and the Juneteenth Shop Black Festival to the same place on Sunday. 

The event returns with 11 businesses for its fourth annual celebration.