Popular food truck opens its first Beale St. restaurant
New Wing Order partner Jesse McDonald has operated a food truck with longtime friend Cole Forrest since 2018. Now they’re opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant within Ghost River taproom on Beale Street. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
Craft beer and hot wings make beautiful music — and up to 240 different flavor combinations — together on Beale Street.
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