Tamra Patterson, better known as Chef Tam, is a contestant on ‘Chopped’ in April, has a new restaurant in Texas, and has found a happy life in Memphis.

“I look forward to the return of Lent ... To the return of the Word and waffles Downtown at 102 N. Second St.”

The East Memphis dining area will get its first brewery and taproom when Hook Point Brewing Co. opens there this summer.

Rizzo’s is the second popular restaurant in the past week to announce it’s closing; recovery from COVID is taking a toll.

The Midtown restaurant will be closed for about six months during its renovation and expansion. 

Plant Based Heat is one of 28 local Black-owned restaurants participating in Memphis Black Restaurant Week.

Desserts have been everywhere lately, and they’ve been hard to resist.

Memphis Black Restaurant Week Cynthia Daniels discusses how the week started, about some of her other events. 

The owner of Shroomlicious, one of this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week pop-ups, is focused on buying a food truck and growing the business into a mobile mushroom operation. 

Meals For You was opened in 2018 by Emma Jean Brown, who died shortly thereafter. But her husband and daughter have kept Meals For You going even though it operated as take-out-only for months.

After taking over the Memphis taco-truck scene with TacoNGanas, Greg Diaz’s Germantown-based Uncle Goyo’s brings a different kind of Mexican dining to the area. 

Last year, Big Momma’s & Granny’s in Bartlett saw sales soar during Memphis Black Restaurant Week. This year’s event runs March 6-12, with 28 restaurants participating. 

A new eatery in Cooper-Young offers, or will soon, a very Texas combination of brisket and baked goods. 

Cooper-Young will soon lose Sweet Grass; owner Ryan Trimm says it’s a ‘secondary casualty’ of COVID.

Memphian Ali Manning has written a new children’s book to help grow healthier adults. 

Where to find a church fish fry this Lent.

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Fish Fry-days are back: Here’s where to find a church fish fry this Lent

After closing early in 2020 and pivoting to takeout in 2021, Calvary Waffle Shop is back, and it brought its fish pudding and tomato aspic with it.

The grand opening of the store, off South Main Street, is next week, but you can start shopping at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 3.

Memphis weekend features Catalan food, a stroll through the tractors and combines at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, and a tribute to Father Nicholas Vieron at the Memphis Restaurant Association banquet.

Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington talk over Herrington’s first Folk’s Folly experience and Chipotle opening on Summer Avenue.

Miller’s first location near Poplar and Forest Hill-Irene on the east end of Germantown opened in October 2019.

The Cellar Lounge at Folk’s Folly has a good burger, as you would expect. But the atmosphere is the thing. 

With two locations already in town, the fast-casual grill is opening a third in early March on a street already rich with Mexican food options.

Mix up a bread pudding with the flavors of king cake, top it with a cream cheese sauce and colored sugar and you have a party of a dessert.