Phillip Ashley Rix has a deal with an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers for his first cookbook, and he wants it to be the “quintessential book on chocolate.”

An old hobby becomes a new taproom, Guy Fieri plans to open his first restaurant in Mississippi and Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is back on the river.

Despite the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest’s smaller scale, Tom Lee Park was active Tuesday afternoon with contestants building booths and hauling in grills and smokers.

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The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest returns to the redesigned Tom Lee Park this Wednesday. And we’ve got tips on tent etiquette, where to eat, where to park and what to bring.

A new deli-meets-grocery-store concept slated to replace Curb Market in Crosstown Concourse plans to mix classic sandwiches with more innovative options. 

Could it be that middle-of-the-country cousins — Cincinnati chili and Memphis barbecue spaghetti — are, respectively, the most overrated and most underrated dishes of American regional cuisine?

Leta Nutt’s chemical sterilization would do away with surgical castration, usually done without anesthesia. 

The Greek dish arni me spanaki sounds like an easy and delicious meal to take you away from your standard beef or chicken dinners.

Sometimes you want a pulled pork sandwich, sometimes you don’t. Here are some of the best non-barbecue dishes at the area’s barbecue restaurants.

A Mississippi couple has filed a lawsuit against Houston’s Restaurant and their managers after they say they were asked to leave due to what they say was racial profiling.

If we’re being real, chicken might be the true favored protein in Memphis year-round, and Kukuruku offers more variety of a thing we already can’t get enough of. 

The youngest son of “Big John” Grisanti just purchased the building at 148 North Main St., which was most recently home to P.O. Press Public House & Provisions. 

Broad Avenue’s ice cream and bubble tea shop is opening in a second location. Plus, details on May’s Friday reader lunch.

Ed and Brittany Cabigao started with SOB on South Main Street in 2009; by July, they will own seven restaurants. 

At Belle Meade Social’s soft opening last week, they were serving six appetizers, six salads, three sandwiches, seven entrees, three pizzas and 10 sides from their menu. And at least one of those dishes was described as “beautiful.” 

Siblings who grew up in the restaurant industry open Los Jimadores along the Stage Road corridor in Bartlett.

In honor of this year’s Memphis in May spotlight country, we bring you the national dish of Malaysia. This version includes a spiced fried chicken, anchovies sambal and coconut rice. 

The pambazo is a behemoth of a sandwich, much bigger and heavier than it looks. It’s also not the easiest eating experience, but that’s all right because it’s unbelievably delicious.

The area’s restaurant association wrote an open letter Wednesday to the city and county mayors about crime in a “cry for help,” according to the group’s president. 

DJ Naylor ups his game with the launch of the Bog’s Whiskey Dinners, Belle Meade Social opens next week and the GPAC Fried Chicken Fest is back May 13.

More big things are happening for Tamra Patterson, from a new Food Network appearance to a new restaurant in, of all places, Rhode Island.

Shrimp Mosca, a recipe from the popular New Orleans restaurant Mosca’s, is one of thousands found in a newly acquired collection of old cookbooks. But some things have changed since the cookbook was published. 

Mother’s Day is May 14 and several Memphis restaurants will host brunches to celebrate. 

Memphis restaurateurs Jennifer and Karl Carpenter are bringing their popular Middle Tennessee concept to the Bluff City after a successful 12-year run in Nashville.