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Turkey every day: Eight Memphis ways to eat Thanksgiving bird year-round
With just a week to go before Thanksgiving, one might be craving turkey now. Here’s a handy guide where to get some of the Bluff City’s best bird.
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With just a week to go before Thanksgiving, one might be craving turkey now. Here’s a handy guide where to get some of the Bluff City’s best bird.
The aperitivo is quintessentially Italian, a celebration of food and drink but also a time to relax with friends and family before dinner.
Mariscos Sinaloa is a nautical-themed restaurant on the corner of Summer Avenue and Bartlett Road, and our advice to its menu is this: Treat it like tapas.
After an outpouring of negative publicity, Local on the Square closed late last month. Memphis restaurateur Tim Quinn plans to open Madison Tavern — with a lodgelike feel and a large menu of American classics — in its place.
“It’s not some high-pressure cooking competition where people are investing a ton of money and expecting a lot of return,” said the reigning grand champ. “We put forth whatever time or money or effort we can, and ... everybody has a blast.”
The latest version of Cameo’s Fancy Dinner pop-up, which showcases new talent on Memphis’ culinary scene, will be lead by Acre’s Colleen Kohl.
The Memphis Mushroom Festival returns for its third year with music, cooking demos from local chefs, workshops and, of course, plenty of fun ... gi.
Crosstown Concourse is homebase for SriMu’s online, subscription-based vegan cheese operation, but the storefront also offers grab-and-go options — and will soon include a small cafe.
These sandwiches are not for the light or neat eater, nor are they for the faint of heart.
Momma’s, located on Kentucky Street, bills itself as “the first and last bar in Memphis” — it’s open from 6:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. on weekdays and later on Saturday nights into Sunday.
The menu is enormous, complete with Indian cuisine ranging across the board from North to South, but with a heavy emphasis on the latter.
This week’s $10 Deal is more of a guide than directions down a specific path. With 49 different dishes, the combinations are plentiful — and delicious.
Straight Drop Seafood in Uptown has 3/8 lb. of shrimp, four potato wedges, half a corn on the cob and half a sausage for $10.
Jerk chicken in a gas station parking lot? Sometimes, the best things are simple and a bargain at Mango’s Caribbean Grill food truck.
From “dirty” sodas to baked chicken, more than a dozen restaurants and food vendors within the Memphis Medical District will showcase their flavors at the annual Taste of the District.
Josh Carlucci says the food truck scene on Summer Avenue is like a slot machine: Each visit could yield a different array. But the fish tacos at Los Jarochos are a jackpot.
A&R Bar-B-Que just missed the top 10 on The South’s Top 50 Barbecue Joints of 2023 from Southern Living, but the magazine thinks the restaurant’s sandwiches are the best in town.
Shawarma comes in many dishes. The most important thing is that it’s meat-roasted on a spinning skewer and sliced right off the spit to order.
The new Elwood’s Shack will include breakfast, dessert and a coffee bar.
As my mother would likely say, “the grits at Otherlands stick to your bones and hold you over for anything the day throws at you.”
“We’re really trying to better the community, one person and one house at a time. Right now, if we want to go somewhere to eat, we probably have to go all the way to Midtown or Downtown.”
Though there is a seemingly infinite number of bánh mì sandwiches, there is but one to rule them all — the bánh mì dac biet.
Petals of a Peony, Memphis’ first entirely authentic Sichuan restaurant, opened this week on Germantown Parkway with gorgeous plates, plenty of offal and dishes perfect for “the intrepid spice enthusiast.”
It’s easy to see that SCO2, which is opening a location in Nashville this year, is a special occasion destination: Couples and small groups dressed up in tight dresses, shiny skirts, button downs and loafers.
Joshua Carlucci reports he’s found a good reason to drive from his house all the way to southeast Memphis besides Costco, and that reason is ZamZamz Mediterranean Grill.