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.

The Cellar Lounge at Folk’s Folly has a good burger, as you would expect. But the atmosphere is the thing. 

With two locations already in town, the fast-casual grill is opening a third in early March on a street already rich with Mexican food options.

Adrian Granderson, Joe Johnson and Robert Higgins, all originally from Memphis, opened WKND Hang Suite in the South Main Historic District in 2018. 

Bartlett’s Side Porch Steakhouse is back, saved by a group of regulars who’ve made this neighborhood hangout even more of the neighborhood. 

When Restaurant Iris reopens in East Memphis, expect a big, rollicking New Orleans-style place very different from the small Iris that started in Midtown.

“I started thinking about a whole soul food menu and realized it would be cool for Black History Month, and that it would also be far different from what anyone else is doing,” the Memphis chocolatier said.

Wendy McCrory was 25 years old when she bought her Gus’s franchise; 22 years later, she has 34 across the country and she’s not slowing down.

The cottage bakers are licensed and legal, just not as well known because they bake from home or leased commercial space instead of having a store. That’s changing for one of them next month.

Beale Street Brewing Co. celebrates prominent Memphis figures for Black History Month.

Cracker Barrel’s new wine and beer offerings are already being served at one location in the Memphis market; contain your enthusiasm.

Cristina McCarter has opened Feast & Graze on S. Main, and The Daily Memphian is giving away one of her charcuterie boxes for Valentine’s Day.

With a menu exactly the same as it was when it closed in 2017, eating at The Farmer is a reunion with old favorites.

Southern food talk brings back memories, the Liars’ Lunch group finds its chicken tenders, Sunrise is coming to East Memphis, Gus’s is in Germantown and Whataburger is nixed for Collierville.

An established group of restaurateurs will take over the recently vacated Blue Plate Café location in East Memphis.

Gus’s in Germantown is open at Poplar and Forest Hill Irene and delivers the same fine chicken that it does all over.

The club members, upset after chicken tenders were removed from Houston’s menu in July 2020, have found a new home for their favorite lunch.