With several new Whataburgers slated for the Memphis area before the end of next year, its longtime fans are ready. 

Some of the recipes from the former Café 61 remain sought after by Memphis diners, and there’s a possibility one or two might end up at The Second Line. 

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

“Everybody says it’s time to do Saigon Le,” said Tuyen Le, one of the sisters who worked at the Midtown restaurant. “They say they want the good food back.”

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.

Almost a decade before the National Civil Rights Museum opened, the Marmalade Restaurant and Lounge thrived on Calhoun Avenue.

Local nonprofit, Operation Better Days, is holding a Beer and Brat Festival fundraiser July 1 at Grind City Brewing Co. to help transitioning veterans and their families. 

Memphis Sandwich Clique cofounder Ryan Hopgood’s family was prepared to donate his organs. Now they’re calling his recovery a miracle.

After opening during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, East Memphis’ Magnolia & May has brought back lunch. 

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.

Cynthia Daniels brings the Memphis Vegan Festival to the Pipkin Building on Saturday and the Juneteenth Shop Black Festival to the same place on Sunday. 

As a preview for Saturday’s Le Bon Appetit fundraiser for Le Bonheur, an all-star group of chefs participated in a “Chopped”-themed cooking competition.

Antigua Mexican Bar & Grill has opened in the former East Memphis location of Pancho’s, and everything is different, from the menu to the interior.

After a series of virtual events in 2020, Le Bon Appetit brings local chefs and out-of-town chefs back, in-person, for a walk-around tasting. 

Craft beer and hot wings make beautiful music — and up to 240 different flavor combinations — together on Beale Street. 

Bain Barbecue & Bakery fully lives up to its name later this week, as a converted propane tank smoker named Peggy is on-site and turning out Texas brisket plus more.

Elwood’s owner Tim Bednarski fulfills a reader request with the jerk shrimp recipe he says is the one they made back when he was at Bahama Breeze.

For example, there are grit cakes, filled with your choice of shrimp, salmon croquettes, chicken, pork or vegetables.

The Memphis Mushroom Festival concluded Sunday and included observational forays, workshops covering sustainable agriculture and tips on how to use psychedelics as medicine. 

Deni and Patrick Reilly will open Cocozza in Harbor Town this fall, and June 5 is your last chance to grab weekend brunch at The Majestic Grille.

Rotolo’s Craft & Crust in East Memphis offers Chicago deep-dish pizza. And it’s good. 

“We only serve spicy,” said Flame MaLaTang manager William Weng of the new pop-up in the Viet Hoa Food Market at 40 N. Cleveland St.

Some favorites missing from last fall’s smaller festival — gyros, lamb chops — are back, alongside 28,000 cookies, music, dancing and more. 

“The best bartender in Memphis” is now slinging drinks Downtown. 

After receiving a $15,000 grant from EDGE, Kaye’s Pints & Scoops has opened at 2089 Winchester Road in Whitehaven, where the owners craft ice creams made with locally sourced ingredients.