After more than a year, The Majestic Grille is reopening on South Main, all spiffed up and ready to go with most of its original menu and familiar faces.

It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’ 

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Kat Gordon’s bakery has received national and international accolades, but this one really gave her a thrill because it was the first to use the Broad Avenue address as her location.

If you give up meat for Lent and only eat fish, do you still get credit if you love it? Does it still count? 

Memphis Black Restaurant Week is in its sixth year, adapted for COVID this year, but going on with more participating restaurants than ever.

First they bought the iconic Bryant’s Breakfast. Before the week was over, Judd and David Tashie had the keys to La Baguette, a bakery beloved by Memphians for 45 years. And they’re here to preserve it, Judd Tashie says.

Dory has officially opened on Brookhaven Circle with a locally sourced tasting menu. It’s the only place in town that doesn’t have an a la carte menu.

Bryant’s Breakfast has been sold to members of the Tashie family and will reopen soon.

Desmond Robinson says just appearing on ‘Chopped’ was a big win: “The response has been so overwhelming, from congratulations to business inquiries. It’s going to take me months to go through these messages.’

Desmond Robinson, who graduated from the University of Memphis, is known professionally as Chef D. Arthur. His “Chopped” competition is titled “Meat Fight: Bison!”

After rehab and recovery, a couple finds an anonymous investor to make their dream project come to life on Brookhaven Circle. 

This year, instead of lasting three hours on one day at FedExForum, the annual event to benefit Youth Villages will be held over two days, Feb. 27-28, at 20 restaurants.

Leonard’s Pit Barbecue might end up on the chopping block if Dan Brown doesn’t find a new owner for Memphis’ oldest barbecue restaurant.

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.