Calls to local restaurateurs show that most plan to be open regular hours on Friday.

Spillit’s next Slam will be an Industry Night, with free admission for restaurant workers. 

Cristina McCarter has opened Feast & Graze on S. Main, and The Daily Memphian is giving away one of her charcuterie boxes for Valentine’s Day.

This week Chris and Jennifer talk a little about recent meals then open for the mail bag. Iris is coming soon, Joes’ is not a lost cause by any stretch, and the P.O. Press carrots─mmm.

Johnny Marzetti is a Midwestern casserole perfect for cold weather. Use this recipe to start then make it your own.

Office equipment set off the early-morning fire at the restaurant in East Memphis.

The crawfish étouffée is spicy, creamy and flavorful, the best of a bundle of good $10 (or less) bets at Parish Grocery.

WTF – What The Food – is a no-menu dinner held the last Wednesday of every month at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen that asks the question: If you didn’t know what you were eating, would you know what you’re eating?

These empanadas are large, well more than a handful each, about the size of a typical Southern fried pie. They’re sold from a food truck on North Germantown Parkway.

With a menu exactly the same as it was when it closed in 2017, eating at The Farmer is a reunion with old favorites.

Southern food talk brings back memories, the Liars’ Lunch group finds its chicken tenders, Sunrise is coming to East Memphis, Gus’s is in Germantown and Whataburger is nixed for Collierville.

Fried chicken or barbecue? Mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes? And why didn’t we even mention squash or coleslaw? Chris and Jennifer talk Southern food on Sound Bites.

The application for a Whataburger restaurant in Collierville was withdrawn on Jan. 14, according to Donquetta Singleton, Collierville project planner.

An established group of restaurateurs will take over the recently vacated Blue Plate Café location in East Memphis.

Tucked into Ridgeway Trace shopping center in East Memphis, the restaurant serves ramen, of course, and you’ll also find takoyaki, bao, donburi and more.

Gus’s in Germantown is open at Poplar and Forest Hill Irene and delivers the same fine chicken that it does all over.

The club members, upset after chicken tenders were removed from Houston’s menu in July 2020, have found a new home for their favorite lunch.

Sure, it would be nice to be on a beach and enjoying the surf and the sand, but if COVID is keeping you from escaping the cold weather, there’s always soup. Soup will never let you down.

A lentil soup is the perfect versatile weeknight winter meal, taking on a different character with a range of slight spice adjustments. 

The restaurant will be located on a site where Malco once considered building a theater.

Horn of Africa adds to the diverse food choices of the Summer Avenue corridor, offering Ethiopian food in the same strip with Kay Bakery.

We know about a lot of Memphis thangs, but that doesn’t mean we’ve tried them all. This week, our food writer eats her first slice of Coletta’s barbecue pizza.

Science of Beer returns to the Pink Palace on Friday as MoSH returns to its pre-pandemic event schedule.

Grocery store shelves are bare, produce departments are all but empty early in the day, and whose fault is it? Yes, it’s COVID.

A crème brûlée recipe from Tiger and Peacock in The Memphian makes an easy but impressive dessert.