Miles Tamboli opened a restaurant just four months before COVID closed his dining room. With a degree in public health, he knows enough to know he’s not reopening it just yet.

A Summer Avenue taco truck scene has bloomed through the summer, with at least eight regular trucks around the wider neighborhood and several others that seem to pop up more infrequently. If you live near Summer or Macon avenues between Highland and White Station, there’s a good chance you can walk to a taco truck. 

A few limited-service restaurants have reopened under a new TABC rule, but most remain closed two months after they were shut down by the Health Department.

Molly’s La Casita has been around for almost half a century, but COVID has hit it just as hard as newer restaurants. On the bright side, "it could be worse."

Basma and Tony Lucchesi will take over the space occupied by Raffe’s Deli, which was opened and owned by her parents for many years.

Jim Neely is 83, the last of his generation of local barbecue legends. He never really intended to be in the restaurant business, but he succeeds in whatever he does.

Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Covington this fall will launch a new Digital Agronomy Assistant training program developed in collaboration with Indigo Ag and state agencies.

Ed and Brittany Cabigao permanently closed two restaurants because of COVID, but they’re expanding SOB with SOBEast, coming to the former Interim space in a few weeks.

FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith and Indigo Ag CEO and director David Perry will discuss Memphis and innovation during the Food Is Health Forum presented by Crusonia on the Delta.

Walhburgers will be in Memphis after all: Wahlburgers Wild, a new concept, is coming to Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid.

Veteran restaurateur Karen Carrier has a new place opening in a couple of weeks. She’s going to her roots, opening a Jewish deli and naming it after her mother.

Restaurateur is juggling a diner, a steakhouse and a neighborhood restaurant. One will likely make it through COVID; the fate of the others is uncertain.

Alex Grisanti is keeping his food truck but is headed back to the kitchen. He’s opening Elfo’s, the first Grisanti restaurant in DeSoto County, next month.

Kelly English turns to one of his favorites for a series of ‘pop-ups’ at Restaurant Iris, when he changes the menu to Catalan cuisine for a few weeks.

The neighborhood grocery in East Memphis is open and the High Point neighborhood is so happy to see it that it planted a sign.

Spencer and Kristin McMillin continue their volunteerism with their latest venture, the Restaurant Phoenix Project — and there’s a cookbook in the bag from their year at Caritas.

Three Black-owned Memphis restaurants — a new one, an institution and a food truck — have each received a $25,000 award from Discover and there’s more money to give away.

New owner Rick James said people kept asking if the High Point employees and butcher shop would be back, and if the Midtown Cash Saver beer selection would come to the grocery. He gave them the answers they wanted to hear.

Memphis-made goodie boxes can be shipped around the country or picked up locally. 

Not all restaurants are going to make it through the pandemic; today we start to look at what independent restaurateurs in Memphis think about the weeks and months ahead.

At Muddy’s Bake Shop, the COVID game is part of the new culture, as much a part of everyday work as a fire drill; it's part of preparation.

Limited-service restaurants will remain closed, second federal judge has ruled, saying “sympathy cannot play a role” in the law.

Bars will remain closed for now, Judge Jon P. McCalla rules in his order denying their request to reopen after being closed by the Health Department in early July.

Sous chef Emily LaForce had many jobs before she found her home in the kitchen at River Oaks, but through them all, she’s always had a paintbrush in her hand.

Cocozza American Italian on South Main is the latest restaurant to close after an asymptomatic employee tested positive for COVID-19; it will reopen Aug. 4.