A&R Bar-B-Q has been around since 1983 and was one of 21 participating restaurants in this year’s Memphis Black Restaurant Week, which concludes March 13.

A peppered goat curry at Bala’s Bistro is a revelation. The cafe offers a plentiful list of West African dishes, including peanut stew and lamb dibi. 

The restaurant inside Chickasaw Oaks mall serves familiar dishes with a flair personalized by owners Carlee McCullough and VeVe Yates.

Curry N Jerk delivers Caribbean dishes for dinner only these days, but the food is rich and hearty, and someone’s been driving all over town to get enough oxtails for the week.

Not all wings are equal, but the bar in Memphis is high and both 901 Wings and Mr. P’s clear it.

There’s a new spot for classic Southern comfort food on Beale. 

Memphis Black Restaurant Week runs through March 13 and we’ll take you to a participating restaurant every day. Today, it’s Trap Fusion.

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.

Sourdough bread is the star at this South Main bakery and cafe, but an egg sandwich with milk bread is well worth trying. The lobby of the Arrive Memphis hotel provides the appealing backdrop. 

Popeye’s new Cajun Flounder sandwich stands ready to launch a war among fish sandwiches as its chicken sandwich did in 2019. See where it ranks against its fast-food foes.

Freddy’s Frozen Custard opens its sixth area location and the line is long for steakburgers at Poplar and Perkins.

As favorite restaurants have reopened during the past year, it’s felt like visiting old friends when you walk back through the doors.

A Nashville export gets a warm welcome in Memphis. A stainless steel screen that dominates the counter at the restaurant on Union delivers the message: Pizza Rules Everything Around Me.

It’s cold, it’s dreary, the days are short and dark. Soup might not cure COVID and it won’t make winter go away, but it’ll help get us through these last weeks.

Belly Acres brings a menu of grass-fed burger choices and plenty of other options to the popular corner of Poplar and Ridgeway.

Batesville is just an hour’s drive south of town and offers up a gem of a breakfast and lunch spot with Bread & Butter Bistro; it even has a dog.

Memphis Sandwich Clique has set up Clique HQ and is serving sandwiches in East Memphis. But you have to order online, show up on time, and pay attention: There are processes.

Warm apple purse might not sound like much next to show stoppers like crème brûlée and Key lime pie, but you’re in for a treat at River Oaks.

Dave Krog’s Dory has finally opened, but for now, it’s just takeout and private dinners. The beef Bourguignon is great, and you don’t want to miss the rolls.

On Mondays after 4 p.m., two burgers and two beers come in right at the limit when you take advantage of the buy-one, get-one offer.

Little Bettie is a tiny kitchen in an enormous brewery, but the pizzas are top notch, the menu is clever and fun, and the beer at Wiseacre is good as ever.

Maciel’s in Cooper-Young delivers the same fresh Mexican favorites as the original restaurant Downtown. For the time being, it all comes on paper and with plastic for our safety — but the food is still great.

Ty’s Smokehouse in Bartlett offers a daily special for $5 and change, and a “Hungry Man” meat-and-three comes in under $10 with drink and tax included.

New Mexican place on Summer is really a few miles past the official end of the avenue, but it’s close enough and the food is good.

Good gas station food is one of the lesser-acknowledged advantages of Southern life and gas stations aren’t just for fried chicken anymore.