Art House Cafe in Soulsville participates in its first Memphis Black Restaurant Week, with a limited menu that includes its “all the smoke” plate with smoked wings, smoked gouda potatoes and smoked cabbage. 

Not long after Ashleigh Weaver moved from Nashville to Memphis, she turned her passion for coffee into a start-up business. “One thing I really like about Memphis is they are very big on locally made,” she said. “Nashville isn’t like that as much.”

This week’s recipe comes with a bonus, too: the Waffle Shop’s special mayonnaise. 

Donburi is a simple, filling Japanese rice bowl that consists of a flavorful and hearty protein, accouterments such as pickled ginger, tamago or scallions and a hefty portion of rice.

Scoring — meanwhile — has never been an issue and when Briarcrest is excelling at both, it’s hard to beat.

A number of food events are just around the corner: Memphis Black Restaurant Week, Black Opulence, the Soulful Food Truck Festival, a Friday Matinee Menu, the Cooper-Young Chili Cookoff and a Whataburger giveaway.

Fish pudding might not have been blessed with an appealing name, but it’s a simple casserole that you can order on Fridays at the Calvary Waffle Shop or make at home any time.

The move of part of the barbecue contest to Beale Street follows an earlier relocation of the Blues Tent from the Beale Street Music Festival to the entertainment district.

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.