Alcenia’s has reopened on North Main, 390 days after B.J. Chester-Tamayo closed it to renovate the space where she’s operated for 25 years and owned since 2020.

After the Hernando DeSoto Bridge shut down shut it down, the ‘diner and dive at Highway 55’ has new booths, a big new kitchen and a new patio that will seat 100. 

Tamra ‘Chef Tam’ Patterson goes on ‘Chopped,’ shows everyone what you do in a BLT battle and brings the win home to Memphis.

The new Manes on Main spring beer festival — the “mane” a nod to Memphis vernacular as well as the brewery’s lion logo — will include a hair and beard contest. 

Work has started on Ciao Bella as the longtime local Italian restaurant moves to Sanderlin Centre, just around the corner from where it all began. 

At Memphis’ new pinball pub, David Yopp will showcase a rotating group of machines — from his personal collection of around 70 games, dating from the mid-1970s to the present — for serious and casual players alike. 

Pair behind Pyro’s plan Instagram-worthy place on Poplar Pike. 

For six hours, Bar DKDC stepped back almost a decade and became Dō. Next month, it happens again.

The craft brewery will install a temporary patio this spring with plans for a permanent installation for future use. 

Although the real anniversary has come and gone, Hampline will celebrate its first year on March 26, 2022 with barbecue, music and, of course, beer. 

The Whataburger location in Arlington has received site plan approval from the town’s Planning Commission, moving it closer to construction.

“Being at Raiford’s, you know you’re going to drink multiple beers. We wanted something you could enjoy throughout the night.” 

Tonica serves up signature gin tonics, true to its Spanish influences, along with tapas and paella. But that doesn’t mean there’s not room for chicken wings on the menu at Sabine Bachmann’s latest restaurant.

Veteran bartenders will soon open Cameo in The Citizen and along with a host of cocktails and good food, offer this light-hearted atmosphere: “A complete desecration of your grandma’s parlor.”

Chef Joe Cartwright returns to McEwen’s, the restaurant he said not only defined his career but set his path for life.

The Food Network host’s farewell tour (and at least one lucky attendee) will be on stage at The Orpheum this week. 

Tamra Patterson, better known as Chef Tam, is a contestant on ‘Chopped’ in April, has a new restaurant in Texas, and has found a happy life in Memphis.

The East Memphis dining area will get its first brewery and taproom when Hook Point Brewing Co. opens there this summer.

Rizzo’s is the second popular restaurant in the past week to announce it’s closing; recovery from COVID is taking a toll.

The owner of Shroomlicious, one of this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week pop-ups, is focused on buying a food truck and growing the business into a mobile mushroom operation. 

Cooper-Young will soon lose Sweet Grass; owner Ryan Trimm says it’s a ‘secondary casualty’ of COVID.

Memphian Ali Manning has written a new children’s book to help grow healthier adults. 

It’s Lent, so it’s time for a little extra fish in your diet. Today we bring you five dishes from some of the more upscale places around town. 

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The grand opening of the store, off South Main Street, is next week, but you can start shopping at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 3.

Memphis weekend features Catalan food, a stroll through the tractors and combines at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, and a tribute to Father Nicholas Vieron at the Memphis Restaurant Association banquet.