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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.
Use Kelly English recipe for a 10-minute (but labor intensive) fast roux to save a lot of time making your Mardi Gras gumbo.
At Good Fortune Co., the colorful, bustling first restaurant for co-owners Sarah Cai and Arturo Leighton, ramen noodles and fish-shaped waffle cones are made behind a bar packed with Asian spirits.
Adrian Granderson, Joe Johnson and Robert Higgins, all originally from Memphis, opened WKND Hang Suite in the South Main Historic District in 2018.
A new restaurant on Summer Avenue has flavors of South America but is not tied to a specific country’s cuisine. Instead, it’s seafood and grilled meats.
Fried chicken is more than dinner, it’s become a mission, something worth preserving for coming generations — even if it is easy to buy it.
The fried chicken discussion continues on this week’s Sound Bites.
The former CK’s on Park has new life as a Mexican restaurant serving three meals daily. It’s his first restaurant, but owner Joel Leos has been cooking more than 25 years.
The cost of takeout packaging, whether plastic, paper or Styrofoam, has increased so much that some restaurateurs are adding service fees to cover the expense.
Bartlett’s Side Porch Steakhouse is back, saved by a group of regulars who’ve made this neighborhood hangout even more of the neighborhood.
When Restaurant Iris reopens in East Memphis, expect a big, rollicking New Orleans-style place very different from the small Iris that started in Midtown.
Sweet Grass makes Wednesdays fun with corn dogs and half-price bottles of wine, Beale Street Brewing’s new beer and catching up with Gus’s Wendy McCrory.
The corn dogs at Sweet Grass, now available at the restaurant on Wednesday nights, can be cooked at home if you’re game to try.
Whether it’s a sit-down meal or a bucket to-go, there’s something about fried chicken that satisfies the Southern in all of us.
“I started thinking about a whole soul food menu and realized it would be cool for Black History Month, and that it would also be far different from what anyone else is doing,” the Memphis chocolatier said.
Wendy McCrory was 25 years old when she bought her Gus’s franchise; 22 years later, she has 34 across the country and she’s not slowing down.
The cottage bakers are licensed and legal, just not as well known because they bake from home or leased commercial space instead of having a store. That’s changing for one of them next month.