Table Talk: The long 10-day winter, chai to warm up, cake to end COVID
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.
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.
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.
Bobby Ellis spent more than 50 years at the Rendezvous; he knew what each one of the 70 keys on a big ring unlocked.
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.
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.
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.
Le Bon Appetit brings chefs to our home kitchens this year; the festival returns in June 2022.
The move will give the local Memphis bakery’s cakes a national audience.
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.
Belly Acres brings a menu of grass-fed burger choices and plenty of other options to the popular corner of Poplar and Ridgeway.
“Sad that we’re wishing for 50%, but we’ll take it,” says one.
Celtic Crossing hosts a party on Jan. 20 to raise a pint to the new president, one a little town in Ireland claims as its own.
Silo Square is to comprise 13 mixed-use buildings, 305 single-family housing lots, six retail outparcels, a bank outparcel, two hotel sites, three office buildings, a 2.6-acre farmer’s market, 10 acres of apartments, and 64 acres of green space.
Claims on social media that Molly’s La Casita is closed and for sale are wrong. It’s temporarily closed but will reopen when it’s not ‘crazy out there,’ owner says.
He’s done takeout, pop-ups and virtual wine dinners. Now Kelly English is keeping his business alive by teaching cooking classes online, shipping food nationwide and cooking your wild game.
The EDGE board approves more grant money for restaurants and grocers that are affected by the pandemic and the latest restrictions.