The snow came and we drank it with booze, The Peanut Shoppe faces a tough decision, and the Rendezvous loses a beloved, 53-year employee.

Bobby Ellis spent more than 50 years at the Rendezvous; he knew what each one of the 70 keys on a big ring unlocked.

You can score a Rendezvous deal today on ‘Good Morning America’ and this week, we have more information about the upcoming Soup Sunday, and Le Bon Appetit cooking classes are postponed one week.

Despite an announcement earlier in the day that restaurants would have to close due to the boil order, the Health Department directive says they do not.

The kids have had their fun and you’ve made the snow cream. Before it melts away, grab a big bowl of snow and whip up a batch of snosé.

Kroger spokesperson says the weather has prevented many vendors from providing certain products for its area stores, such as bread. 

We got through Mardi Gras, Valentine’s Day, two (maybe three) winter storms, yet we cooked and we ate well, and we have the stories and photos to prove it.

For the rare times we have enough snow on the ground, Southerners enjoy it by bringing it in their kitchen and stirring up a batch of snow cream.

Snow might keep you homebound, but for folks who like to be in the kitchen, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Bar seating, later hours and more capacity for restaurants are all possibilities in Health Directive 18, which should be effective late next week.

Memphis has its share of restaurant couples, and a few of them have surprises to share when they talk about how they met and what it’s like to work together.

Readers were showing off Super Bowl food on Table Talk and getting their instant potatoes in the mail. Plus, an old reliable reopened for lunch, and some local small businesses are expanding.

Through Black History Month, the local company City Tasting Tours offers an artisanal food box called The Majority, with items from seven Memphis businesses. 

The move will give the local Memphis bakery’s cakes a national audience.

Yes, there’s COVID, but you don’t want to forget Valentine’s Day; local restaurateurs make it easy for you. And Beauty Shop reopens for lunch Feb. 8.

The potatoes are coming to your mailbox soon, if you haven’t already gotten them, and the question is: How are you going to use them?

There’s still a pandemic, but that’s not stopping new restaurants and breweries from opening, and one local business owner has gotten so busy, he’s had to beef up his staff.

The going got tough in 2019 and 2020 started with promise followed by disappointment. Then a pivot, a plan, a little luck and well, Oprah, made things happen. But success comes with a cost, too.

Hampline Brewing had reinvent early in COVID, before it even opened, and it gave the principals a way to get through the pandemic. It wasn’t just a new business for them; it became a passion project.

When Ben Colar was envisioning his new cocktail bar, what sprung up was the idea of “rest.”

Fans of the Sanderlin Centre’s City Silo won’t have to adapt to the new spot in Saddle Creek. The menu is intact and the environment is just as simple and light.

Idahoan Foods is saying thanks to Memphis and the residents who consumed 8.5 million servings of the company’s instant mashed potatoes last year. 

We’re talking food on our Table Talk group on Facebook, soup on Sound Bites and eating new burgers in East Memphis.

Cream of mushroom soup is easy to make and the heavy cream makes it a luxurious cold weather treat.