We got through Mardi Gras, Valentine’s Day, two (maybe three) winter storms, yet we cooked and we ate well, and we have the stories and photos to prove it.

Kim Terrell says she uses a good “super moist” box mix for her German chocolate cake, but sticks to the original recipe for the frosting. 

Shelby County Health Directive 18 allows greater occupancy, bar seating and a midnight curfew.

The Center City Development Corp. also approved financial support for restoring and replacing stained glass windows at Historic Clayborn Temple, and for the restoration and redevelopment of a blighted, vacant commercial building at Vance and S. Fourth. 

For the rare times we have enough snow on the ground, Southerners enjoy it by bringing it in their kitchen and stirring up a batch of snow cream.

The restaurant is leasing 6,500 square feet from the shopping center near the southeast corner of Poplar and Interstate 240.

Snow might keep you homebound, but for folks who like to be in the kitchen, there’s nothing wrong with that.

First comes Michael’s birthday, then baseball spring training, the Calvary Waffle Shop, Easter and finally, spring will have sprung.

Popeye’s new Cajun Flounder sandwich stands ready to launch a war among fish sandwiches as its chicken sandwich did in 2019. See where it ranks against its fast-food foes.

Freddy’s Frozen Custard opens its sixth area location and the line is long for steakburgers at Poplar and Perkins.

Bar seating, later hours and more capacity for restaurants are all possibilities in Health Directive 18, which should be effective late next week.

Memphis has its share of restaurant couples, and a few of them have surprises to share when they talk about how they met and what it’s like to work together.

Suga Mama SnoBalls is opening a second location in Southeast Memphis next month.

Readers were showing off Super Bowl food on Table Talk and getting their instant potatoes in the mail. Plus, an old reliable reopened for lunch, and some local small businesses are expanding.

Through Black History Month, the local company City Tasting Tours offers an artisanal food box called The Majority, with items from seven Memphis businesses. 

Wolf River Hospitality Group is moving its corporate offices to Germantown occupying the former Mesquite Chop House site on Forest Hill-Irene Road.

Beer for dessert? Maybe. Sisco Larson and Kat Gordon talk with Jennifer Biggs about what to pair with your last course.

As favorite restaurants have reopened during the past year, it’s felt like visiting old friends when you walk back through the doors.

The move will give the local Memphis bakery’s cakes a national audience.

Yes, there’s COVID, but you don’t want to forget Valentine’s Day; local restaurateurs make it easy for you. And Beauty Shop reopens for lunch Feb. 8.

The potatoes are coming to your mailbox soon, if you haven’t already gotten them, and the question is: How are you going to use them?

There’s still a pandemic, but that’s not stopping new restaurants and breweries from opening, and one local business owner has gotten so busy, he’s had to beef up his staff.

A Nashville export gets a warm welcome in Memphis. A stainless steel screen that dominates the counter at the restaurant on Union delivers the message: Pizza Rules Everything Around Me.

Should the cans of Tiger Tail — the first official beer of the Memphis Tigers — be blue, black or gray? Fans can vote this month in the taproom of Grind City Brewing.