It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’ 

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Maintaining curbside pickup and dine-in service simultaneously is not as easy as it seems, and we will all need to do both. We need you to give us space to operate without getting hot under the collar.

The year since local restaurants were first shut for coronavirus has been hard; Kelly English talks about what it’s been like for him.

Kat Gordon’s bakery has received national and international accolades, but this one really gave her a thrill because it was the first to use the Broad Avenue address as her location.

Taste Around Arlington changes format due to coronavirus, but still features the top dishes at the town’s restaurants. The event runs through April 29.

Muddy’s Bake Shop makes the list of Southern Living magazine’s best bakeries for the year.

A&R Bar-B-Q has been around since 1983 and was one of 21 participating restaurants in this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week, which concludes March 13.

A peppered goat curry at Bala’s Bistro is a revelation. The cafe offers a plentiful list of West African dishes, including peanut stew and lamb dibi. 

Look for later hours, bigger tables, less red tape and even a slight loosening of mask use for restaurants under the next health directive.

The restaurant inside Chickasaw Oaks mall serves familiar dishes with a flair personalized by owners Carlee McCullough and VeVe Yates.

Curry N Jerk delivers Caribbean dishes for dinner only these days, but the food is rich and hearty, and someone’s been driving all over town to get enough oxtails for the week.

The food at Dory, the Tashies acquire two local favorites, and we take you inside some of the restaurants participating in Memphis Black Restaurant Week. 

If you give up meat for Lent and only eat fish, do you still get credit if you love it? Does it still count? 

Not all wings are equal, but the bar in Memphis is high and both 901 Wings and Mr. P’s clear it.

Memphis Black Restaurant Week is in its sixth year, adapted for COVID this year, but going on with more participating restaurants than ever.

There’s a new spot for classic Southern comfort food on Beale. 

First they bought the iconic Bryant’s Breakfast. Before the week was over, Judd and David Tashie had the keys to La Baguette, a bakery beloved by Memphians for 45 years. And they’re here to preserve it, Judd Tashie says.

Memphis Black Restaurant Week runs through March 13 and we’ll take you to a participating restaurant every day. Today, it’s Trap Fusion.

Dory has officially opened on Brookhaven Circle with a locally sourced tasting menu. It’s the only place in town that doesn’t have an a la carte menu.

On “Behind The Headlines,” Memphis Tourism president Kevin Kane and Downtown Memphis Commission board chairwoman Deni Reilly assess the heavy toll the pandemic has taken on the local industry in the last year. 

Bryant’s Breakfast has been sold to members of the Tashie family and will reopen soon.

Desmond Robinson says just appearing on ‘Chopped’ was a big win: “The response has been so overwhelming, from congratulations to business inquiries. It’s going to take me months to go through these messages.’

Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington talk about nachos, from the ones you make at home to barbecue nachos to dessert nachos, and Chris is so inspired by a curry on Facebook that he makes a comment.