The restaurant will open a month early, while Kura House Asian Cuisine is closing and Downtown’s The Artist Table is looking for a new location. 

The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest kicked off with the parade of champions followed by the event’s traditional sauce wrestling. 

This week is one that’s been special to Memphians for 48 years now. 

Despite being declared dead at least twice before, Newby’s could reopen on the Highland Strip as soon as mid-June with a new owner. 

“My dad was the original Charlie,” Charlie’s Meat Market owner Chuck Hogan said. “He opened Triangle Meat Company on Lamar (Avenue) in 1967.”

An anonymous local company bought a highly visible retail property in Cooper-Young with plans for an Asian restaurant in the former Alchemy space.

The former longtime home of Downtown’s Bluff City Coffee will soon be home to coffee again, but this time, with cocktails, too. 

“Because we haven’t had it in so long, it seems that much better. Nostalgia comes back in a way and is something to hold onto,” one customer said as Briza launched its new Houston’s-style chicken tenders. 

“Really, Beale became redundant,” said Ghost River owner Bob Keskey after the company made a number of improvements at its original location. 

The 200-plus teams in MIM’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will compete for a share of $200,000 — as well as bragging rights. Here’s all you need to know.

For Memphis retailers and farmers, the current reality is higher prices and tighter supply.

For these three female entrepreneurs, their businesses grew as their families did, alongside challenges, memories and meals.

HighTee is leaning into high tea, and Raymah Café opens in a long-vacant former Applebee’s.

“We’re trying to combat loneliness,” said the operator of Second Helpings Cafe. 

For the first time at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, pitmasters this year will cook on an open-flame in a live-fire competition. 

Ghost River Brewery & Taproom opened on Beale Street in 2021. The company will focus on its newly-expanded South Main location.

It’s all openings this week with TacoNGanas, Bloom Bakery & Cafe, Playa Bowls and Brain Food Memphis.

The upcoming expansion marks a major milestone for a business that, according to the company’s website, began quite literally with a sack of oysters and the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A New Uptown bar will open in an existing event space.

Baker’s son Austin Baker said his father told him, “we are all stewards. Everything we own, someone’s owned before us, and someone will own it when we’re gone. It’s up to us to pay it forward while we’re here.” 

The location in Southaven will remain open, they said.

Ice cream and more on its American Way, Rotolo’s Lakeland grand opening and Roll With It in Whitehaven.

The Silly Goose Lounge’s co-owner won’t be giving away the secret recipes and days-long methods to their pizzas or cocktails, but he promises, “There’s a lot of work behind when you order a drink.”

Several new businesses and rebrands are emerging along the Stage Road corridor west of Bartlett City Hall, bringing a mix of restaurants and entertainment to the area.

Strawberry-picking season started at the third-generation family farm Jones Orchard last week, attracting families and chefs alike.