Owners of the new restaurant at 669 S. Mendenhall anticipate Southall Cafe will open by mid-August. It's part of Boyle Investment Company's newly renovated Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.

Charlie Vergos has released his first comedy album and was No. 1 on iTunes until Weird Al knocked him down a spot.

Eating dinner outside is a pleasure, but it does get really hot here. Still: Sweaty or COVID? Flies or COVID? I know my answer. I think it’s your answer too, because so many of you have asked me where you can eat outdoors. Here's a guide.

The building that for decades housed Consignment Music will become a deli restaurant.

Most grocery stores do a decent job complying with Health Department regulations to address the pandemic, but only one gets 100% and it's Costco, which requires a membership. 

On 50 restaurant visits, we spotted 51 violations, the majority having to do with employees not wearing masks or wearing them improperly.

Restaurants are popping up like spring flowers; a new round has opened and Kelly English will bring back Restaurant Iris and The Second Line on Friday.

Memphis’ best known restaurant, the Rendezvous, opened on Friday, one of a handful of Downtown restaurants to reopen after closing for COVID-19.

High Point Grocery, owned by the Shirley family for almost 50 years, is closed at present and up for sale.

The smell of smoke will fill the alley between Union and Monroe once again when the Rendezvous reopens for lunch and dinner starting Friday, June 5.

Take a look at the new patio at The Second Line and Restaurant Iris on Saturday, but you probably won't be able to walk on it just yet.

Caritas Village is closed, though a former director says she and her husband, the chef, want to run it and open now. But the board says the café will close permanently.

The Department of Revenue will look at the sales taxes reported by businesses statewide and prepare to make payments ranging from $2,500 for the smallest to $30,000 for the largest ones, as the state distributes federal CARES Act funds.

More restaurants reopen as June ushers in the change of season along with a change of minds. But the virus is still here, and we still have to be cautious as we get out more and more.

Sabine Langer, who owns Global Cafe in Crosstown Concourse, will open Pizzeria Trasimeno there on Tuesday.

The Cupboard, Folk’s Folly and the first location of Huey’s open their dining rooms two months after closing them because of COVID-19.

Count Hopdoddy in Overton Square among the restaurants in town that closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will not reopen.

There was a line of people waiting when Gibson's Donuts re-opened at 5 a.m. Friday. They weren't just there for the donuts. They were there for the joy.  

Gibson’s Donuts, closed since March 21, reopens at the crack of dawn on May 15 for takeout; thousands of doughnuts are already being fried.

Bass Pro Shops to open a large outside lounge at Big Cypress Lounge on May 22 with views of the Mississippi River, the Hernando de Soto Bridge and Downtown.

Even Mother's Day didn't lure crowds into area restaurants. This weekend is the first since social distancing began that Shelby County dining establishments could welcome guests for sit-down meals. But many opted for take-out.

From fresh paint to new floors to expanded bars, Memphis restaurants are getting freshened up while they’ve been shut down.

Restaurateurs have differing opinions on whether the decision to open restaurants on Monday is the right thing to do; some say it’s time, some say it’s too soon.

The mayors of Shelby County and all seven of its cities and towns have agreed on a plan for reopening businesses after 14 days of a stable or declining number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. But the math isn’t as simple as counting the numbers of cases and marking off days on a calendar.

Sugar Avenue bakery had a name and a website, but it took a crisis and a desire to do something happy to bring it to fruition.