The latest installment of our Summer Avenue restaurant guide includes the small stretch that might be the culinary heart of the street. 

With some sit-down Japanese, some classic takeout Chinese and the unlikely union of meat-and-three and Thai, the second installment of our Summer Avenue food guide reaches a stretch of the street where “old Memphis” and “international Memphis” are often one and the same.

On the first day of Summer, we begin our food tour of Summer Avenue — “one long, rolling unofficial international market” — with the roughly 2-mile section on the west end where you’ll find several of the street’s best-kept secrets.