Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington just wrote about tamales, and on this week’s Sound Bites, they talk about them, too.

Ikea offers different meal deals Mondays through Thursdays, but on Wednesdays, one adult and two kids can eat for $10.

A new restaurant is coming to South Main, and it was a sad week in the restaurant world.

Whether you want your fish fried, baked or even in a taco, you can find it at these area Catholic churches on Friday nights. 

Years after the wine in grocery stores battle was fought, a new battle is brewing — over spirit-based seltzers. 

Kevin “Shea” Grauer, 55, worked at Karen Carrier’s Beauty Shop in Cooper-Young for 18 years; Carrier called Grauer her “beacon of light.” Friend Duncan Aiken shares what happened the night Grauer died.

The cosmetics retailer and Mexican eatery will be the newest shops to join the retail options at the Shops of Saddle Creek.

“Our kids having a mentor makes their stay with us even better. They have someone who is looking out for them, advocating for them, loving them, caring for them, and it really means a lot for their mental health.”

These tamales are a bit of work and they take time, but the reward is a freezer full of some mighty fine tamales. 

Tasia Vergos, the widow of Rendezvous founder Charlie Vergos, came to Memphis for an arranged marriage and lived a long life in her adopted city.

Nachos? Pizza? Salad? Spaghetti? Germantown Commissary offers another way to serve up Memphis barbecue. 

We continue talk of cakes not just fit for but named for kings and talk about the food news of the week on this week’s Sound Bites.

For something a little different before Lent begins, go the Shrove Tuesday route with a pancake supper.

Once you know what the squiggles on top of the chocolates mean, you’ll know exactly what’s inside.

Frogmore Stew, a soup fashioned from a Lowcountry boil, comes to us from Restaurateur of the Year Ryan Trimm and his former restaurant. 

The former Union Avenue police station in Midtown will be home to a new Whataburger location. 

The restaurant won’t become SOB Broad, however. 

Mardi Gras cometh and with it, king cakes, pancakes and all manner of delicious food. And can broccoli win a cage match with Brussels sprouts?

Whatever you do, don’t sleep on Germantown Parkway’s Bombay House. Just make sure you take a friend with you. 

For Don Gaines and Stephanie Blanda, their pastry, sandwich, cake, soup, bread and bagel business is rooted in what they’d sought as consumers but struggled to find locally. 

Chef Ryan Trimm has also been named Memphis’ Restaurateur of the Year, and it comes with a big party. 

Father Ben Bradshaw and his team at St. Michael Catholic Church are ready to bake about 700 king cakes. And it may be fitting: It was actually Bradshaw’s previous life as a baker that led him to the priesthood. 

Biggby Coffee will open on Germantown Parkway with a longtime Memphian as the local franchisee.