St Patrick’s Day returns full-on to Celtic Crossing; Dō Sushi returns for a popup next week; sad news about a Downtown restaurant and good news for East Memphis beer lovers.

Chef Joe Cartwright returns to McEwen’s, the restaurant he said not only defined his career but set his path for life.

“I made it very clear that I didn’t want this to be a small mom and pop business, but to grow out of Memphis to around the country and someday around the world,” Bailan Spice’s Lenora Ebule said. 

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The Food Network host’s farewell tour (and at least one lucky attendee) will be on stage at The Orpheum this week. 

The recipe for Low Country shrimp and grits from Ryan Trimm’s Sweet Grass are a nice parting gesture as the restaurant winds down after 12 years of service.

If there’s anything we can take away from this last week, it’s that the Cooper-Young neighborhood, although it has its stable businesses and celebrations, is constantly evolving while maintaining its unique character.

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.