Restaurants are popping up like spring flowers; a new round has opened and Kelly English will bring back Restaurant Iris and The Second Line on Friday.

Acre has reopened and only one item from the pre-COVID menu remains. The restaurant has also embraced family-style share plates, and all the food is good.

My kind of world-saving is the kind I can do from my kitchen, the kind that smells like a home-cooked meal and looks like a bit more menu planning and a strategy for leftovers.

Memphis’ best known restaurant, the Rendezvous, opened on Friday, one of a handful of Downtown restaurants to reopen after closing for COVID-19.

High Point Grocery, owned by the Shirley family for almost 50 years, is closed at present and up for sale.

The smell of smoke will fill the alley between Union and Monroe once again when the Rendezvous reopens for lunch and dinner starting Friday, June 5.

Take a look at the new patio at The Second Line and Restaurant Iris on Saturday, but you probably won't be able to walk on it just yet.

Caritas Village is closed, though a former director says she and her husband, the chef, want to run it and open now. But the board says the café will close permanently.

The Department of Revenue will look at the sales taxes reported by businesses statewide and prepare to make payments ranging from $2,500 for the smallest to $30,000 for the largest ones, as the state distributes federal CARES Act funds.

More restaurants reopen as June ushers in the change of season along with a change of minds. But the virus is still here, and we still have to be cautious as we get out more and more.

Sabine Langer, who owns Global Cafe in Crosstown Concourse, will open Pizzeria Trasimeno there on Tuesday.

Magnolia & May opens its dining room Friday, May 29, with a “country brasserie” menu of new items and Not the Grove’s pimento cheese (but it is). 

Fam’s second restaurant opened just a month or so before COVID closed dining rooms, but now it’s reopened on Highland, serving fresh and healthy food.

Mississippi Terrace has opened in Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid, offering plenty of outdoor seating and a nice view with a snack and cocktail.

The first Memphis Mushroom Festival, scheduled for Oct. 1-4 in Meeman Shelby Forest, welcomes amateur and professional “mycologists,” or fungi fanatics.

Beef supply has been hampered by some processing plants closing temporarily or reducing capacity for coronavirus-related issues.

The company's 937 employees in Memphis have worked from home during the pandemic, but a number reconvened Thursday to donate food and money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

Ryan Trimm is doing what it takes to keep his restaurants going, and that includes theme nights for takeout. On Wednesdays, it’s paella.

The Cupboard is back with its big menu of vegetables, and the people came out in a steady flow to the large Midtown restaurant on Wednesday.

The Cupboard, Folk’s Folly and the first location of Huey’s open their dining rooms two months after closing them because of COVID-19.

Some folks aren’t ready to go out to dinner; po’boy kits are one of the many options available for takeout and delivery from Iris Etc.

Count Hopdoddy in Overton Square among the restaurants in town that closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will not reopen.

Patrons will be asked to wear masks, practice social distancing and may have to wait to get in. 

These days, restaurants are setting timers to make sure a list of items gets cleaned every 30 minutes. 

There was a line of people waiting when Gibson's Donuts re-opened at 5 a.m. Friday. They weren't just there for the donuts. They were there for the joy.