Sometimes you want a pulled pork sandwich, sometimes you don’t. Here are some of the best non-barbecue dishes at the area’s barbecue restaurants.

The youngest son of “Big John” Grisanti just purchased the building at 148 North Main St., which was most recently home to P.O. Press Public House & Provisions. 

Ed and Brittany Cabigao started with SOB on South Main Street in 2009; by July, they will own seven restaurants. 

At Belle Meade Social’s soft opening last week, they were serving six appetizers, six salads, three sandwiches, seven entrees, three pizzas and 10 sides from their menu. And at least one of those dishes was described as “beautiful.” 

Siblings who grew up in the restaurant industry open Los Jimadores along the Stage Road corridor in Bartlett.

The area’s restaurant association wrote an open letter Wednesday to the city and county mayors about crime in a “cry for help,” according to the group’s president. 

More big things are happening for Tamra Patterson, from a new Food Network appearance to a new restaurant in, of all places, Rhode Island.

Memphis restaurateurs Jennifer and Karl Carpenter are bringing their popular Middle Tennessee concept to the Bluff City after a successful 12-year run in Nashville.

Three more restaurants are moving into Silo Square in DeSoto County, including one that also will host music events.

The wine festival will have plenty of food, drink (of course) and experiences because, as one of the organizers says, “a class just doesn’t sound as fun as what we do.”

Chef Eli Townsend, formerly of Sage restaurant, is back Downtown, this time running Dos Hermanos Kitchen in the Cossitt Library. And getting there has been an adventure.

What began as a side hustle for Andrew Banker has transformed into a way to help people in extreme poverty — while offering a quality cup of coffee. 

The dinners, which are being held quarterly, bring chefs to Memphis to provide their own answer to the question: What does this season, right here, taste like? 

Much of the previous Bluefin menu will transfer over to Momoya. But there will also be a number of other kinds of dishes now offered at Momoya, as well. 

It’s going to be a big year for Buster’s: In addition to the new butcher shop, the Hammonds are opening a second, larger liquor store at Ridgeway Trace in November.

World Central Kitchen and local volunteers are delivering meals to folks in need in Covington and Wynne, Arkansas.

We’ll have one more breakfast/brunch option next month when the second location of The Liquor Store opens at Williamsburg Village.

Tommy’s Burgers has opened in the old CK’s at Park Avenue and Mt. Moriah Road with an extensive, diner-like menu with a Mexican twist. 

The Lopez Grill project is part of what officials hope will be a revitalization of the historic downtown Bartlett Station area.

A new Italian ice eatery is coming to Memphis just in time for hot summer days.

Under John Barnard, Seessel’s won the Tennessee Bakery of the Year every year and once nabbed the National Bakery of the Year. Before Barnard joined Seessel’s, he impressed the Navy’s top brass with pastries and cakes. 

The story of Seessel’s, which spans five generations and 140 years, started with “The Great Butcher of Memphis.” Even now, 25 years after the stores were sold, people can still remember the taste of the grocer’s cakes and pies. 

To build out the new Bog & Barley, 447 pieces of the restaurant were built in Ireland, taken apart, boxed up, shipped here and then reassembled. Here’s a sneak peek before it opens next week. 

Vegan restaurant Plant Based Heat packed the Renasant Convention Center for its first Vegan Brunch Sunday, March 26.

Belle Meade Social will open where Jim’s Place and Strano! used to be, and the owners want to “be that local, neighborhood spot where people want to go — not just for when we first open, but for the next 50, 60 years.”