Grab a $10 Deal through Lent by visiting local Catholic churches for Friday night fish fries.

Crazy Cactus is a new Mexican restaurant on Summer Avenue that serves cheese enchiladas topped with carnitas. Of course it’s a favorite thing; why wouldn’t it be?

The restaurant group also owns Rum Boogie Café, King’s Palace and The Pig on Beale.

Kat Gordon & Jennifer Biggs talk about Muddy’s birthday, vision parties and cookie complications.

Participating restaurants mostly offer a two-course lunch for $15 and a three-course dinner for $25.

World of Whiskey tasting will kick off St. Patrick’s Day a bit early this year; Memphis Black Restaurant Week starts Sunday; Mix-Odyssey 2020 is Friday.

Coastal Fish Company delivers. It’s beautiful, the staff is fully attentive and while it’s pricey, you can spend considerably more for food that doesn’t approach this quality. Spectacular sunsets, sadly, cannot be guaranteed.

Tops Bar-B-Q is preparing to expand with a new Bartlett location. 

Muddy’s magic began with an accident, a ‘crisis of certainty,’ a lot of prayer and, ultimately, a leap of faith on Leap Day.

Native sons Andy and Michael have been nominated as semifinalists for–guess what?–Best Chef: Southeast by the James Beard Foundation.

Jennifer Biggs talks with Kelly English and Penny Henderson about Mardi Gras, here, and in their hometowns.

We can still cross our fingers for more of NBC’s “Bluff City Law,” but should it return to the air, Elijah will need a new office building: Strait & Associates at Front Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard will soon be home to a restaurant, a sandwich shop and up those stairs where a beer or two was consumed on the show, a speakeasy.

Thirty-first annual event ladles up samples of area restaurants' favorites to raise funds for youngsters who can use a helping hand.

For this New Memphis Fellows Community Action Project, a group helped The Works, Inc. promote their South Memphis Farmers Market. 

State Rep. Mark White may be changing direction on legislation designed to stop schools from “shaming” students who pile up meal debt by sponsoring his own version of the bill as a Democratic lawmaker battles to overcome a damaging amendment.

The annual literary salon – a blend of cocktail party, theater and book club – puts Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Dan McCleary in the role of mixologist. This year’s authors are Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mitchell.

The pizza will set you back $8-$10, depending on which one you order. The crust was perfect, puffed around the edges, a bit of chew in the center.

Good soul food isn't necessarily synonymous with a consistent menu, says Jennifer Biggs. "You know it's homemade if it doesn't taste the same every day." 

Soup Sunday is back for its annual event that has filled bellies with warm soup for 31 years and the coffers at Youth Villages with more than $1.5 million.

Shawn Danko has been named the Restaurateur of the Year and will be honored at Sunday’s annual Memphis Restaurant Association banquet; February events still to come; tamales are back at Elwood’s Shack.

Home cooking is as personal as food gets, and Robert Taylor's Daisy’s on South Third offers real soul food and home cooking that you need to add to your list of soul food restaurants.

“Memphis has always been racially-fractured, and I don’t know where we’d be without the greatest duct tape and Gorilla Glue in the world ... music.” 

From computer science to the culinary arts, a chance meeting at The Peabody led Steven Leake to his passion. Now he's an award-winning chef at Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Havana Mix Cigar Emporium and Cocktail Lounge, 250 Peabody Place, is seeking a Downtown development loan for expansion.

Kathryn Garland, a former chef turned real estate agent, is the new president of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors.