The next era of Swamp Bar arrives the weekend of Feb. 26.

For nearly a year, Comeback Coffee has existed without couches, without conversations and without a morning crowd lingering at its Downtown cafe. On Saturday, Feb. 28, that energy will return to North Main Street.

Area churches get ready to feed the masses. 

Less than a month shy of its fifth business anniversary, the Downtown Memphis restaurant has announced its permanent closure.

Every Valentine’s Day, Diana Kokernot Britton bakes and decorates sugar cookies for her children and friends — a family tradition that goes back to the 1800s. And now you can make them, too.

The owner of Evelyn & Olive reopened the East Memphis location on Saturday, Feb. 7. Also, TacoNGanas is one step closer to its first brick-and-mortar restaurant and two former Wendy’s properties have been sold. 

Makeda’s owners knew they had found the right spot — the address was 901 Abernathy Road. 

Memphis is the first in a multi-city food tour the popular Slutty Vegan brand is doing to gauge demand for franchise locations. 

The restaurant, located in the former Carrabba’s Italian Grill at 5110 Poplar Ave., officially opens with a ribbon-cutting Monday, Feb. 9.

Tsunami, the Cooper-Young restaurant that helped launch the Midtown neighborhood as a place for dining and entertainment, will close Feb. 21.

Playa Bowls has opened its third location in Memphis, this time in the Edge District, and The Melting Pot is returning to the area and could be open as soon as 2027.

The Memphis barbecue spot will open a new location in July, but first, the owners need to “de-Arby-fy” it.

As winter storms left parts of north Mississippi isolated, a Memphis caterer partnered with a disaster relief group to deliver meals to those who needed them. 

Founder Allie Trotter said Whisks of Doom was never meant to fit into traditional bakery culture, which she describes as too “cotton candy” for her taste.

At area grocery stores, customer demand is high, and restocking depends on location and how products are delivered. 

The Pop Spot Bar & Grill on Brookhaven Circle and Wild Beet Salad Co. in Cooper-Young are opening, and may be joined by a new restaurant on Mississippi Boulevard.

At Lightfoot Farmstead in Millington, family members are waking up in the middle of the night to make sure a pregnant cow doesn’t go into early labor.

A sister restaurant to Red Koi has rolled into a two-story space in East Memphis, and it’s not your typical sushi bar. 

The history of Westy’s in the Pinch District offers a deeper look at the people and culture that kept it alive — feeding night owls and creating a community — for decades. 

It’s renovation time for a Whitehaven barbecue joint and a Downtown bakery. Also, a Highland Street restaurant is up for sale.

Online gift-basket retailer Memphis Gift Basket will open its first storefront and small fresh market this summer in Uptown.

The James Beard nomination rounds out a period of accolades for The Lobbyist that includes a Michelin recommendation nod and a “best dishes” inclusion from The New York Times.

When ICE showed up at his Orange Mound business after hours, Da Sammich Spot owner Rob Brown felt like he had to take action. 

In this edition of Food Files: Fancy Cat Cafe in Southaven offers coffee and cats. Gibson’s Donuts made some upgrades, but “everything is back to normal.” And Carrington Oaks Coffeehouse in Collierville has reopened.

Fleur was meant to be a French/American Southern fusion restaurant located in the former Fancy’s Fish House space in One Beale.