Restaurants

iPads replace wine lists at pair of restaurants

Submitted by Jeramia Trotter, WMCTV.com

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012, 2:48pm

iPads replace wine lists at pair of restaurants

(WMC-TV) - Choosing a wine has gone high-tech at Spindini and Mesquite Chop House.

For many diners, the wine-picking experience at a restaurant consists of two steps. First, trying to remember that wine they had one time at a friend's house that was really good. Second, realizing that they have no idea what that wine was called and just picking one off the menu that isn't impossible to pronounce.

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Local treatery giving away free ice cream for a year

Submitted by Danielle Wilburn on Thursday, July 12th, 5:45 pm

(WMC-TV) - Did you know July is national ice cream month? A local ice cream store is celebrating by giving you the opportunity to get the tasty treat free for a whole year.

MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery is hosting a contest on its Facebook fan page for its customers. The winner of free ice cream for an entire year will be announced on national ice cream day which is on July 15.

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Eat Local Memphis: A Bittersweet Symphony

Submitted by Thomas Robinson on Monday, July 9th, 11:51 am

In May (wow, that seems like forever ago!), K and I were excited about a midweek date that would see us drop by Felicia Suzanne for our customary meal before going to see the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at the Cannon Center. Why Felicia every time we go to the symphony? Because she is cool, we love her food, and it is an easy trolley ride down to the Cannon for the performance. Fortunately for our taste buds, we made it through dinner just fine…

Slammin’ Salmon

I’m from the South, and I have parents and grandparents that are also from the house. Needless to say I have grown up with deviled eggs, and I love them. I have also grown up in a family in which smoked salmon makes a regular appearance at the table at any party we have. But wait, someone decided to mix the two together??... Read More

Read the rest of the review on Eat Local Memphis!

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Central BBQ coming to South Main

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Friday, July 6th, 2012, 11:16am

(WMC-TV) - Central BBQ is adding a third location in Memphis.

Action News 5’s partners at the Memphis Daily News reports that the Bluff City restaurant plans to move into the South Main district.

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Andy Wise sets Restaurant Scorecard's Best Chili contestants

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012, 9:37am

Midtown boasts three restaurants in the running to topple Downtown's Bardog Tavern as owning the "Best Restaurant Chili" recipe in the Mid-South.

Action News 5 viewers nominated The Slider Inn, Fuel Cafe and Young Ave. Deli as Midtown establishments to compete in Andy Wise's Restaurant Scorecard's Second Annual Best Restaurant Chili Cook-Off. The competition will air Thursday, May 10, and Thursday, May 17 on Action News 5 at 10.

Front St. Deli, 77 S. Front St., is the fourth nominee whose chili recipe was selected to compete.

Inaugural winner Bardog Tavern, 73 Monroe Ave., will defend its trophy, which has been on display at the bar since Bardog won in February 2011.

Click here for the coverage of last year's contest.

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New Central BBQ location

Submitted by Michael Phillips

Thursday, April 5th, 2012, 2:27pm

A Bluff City Barbecue Favorite is expanding to open a third location.

Central Barbecue is setting up shop downtown.

Opening a new restaurant at 147 Butler, right behind the National Civil Rights Museum.

Central has two other locations, at Summer and Central.

The restaurant just recently celebrated 10 years in the business, after years of competing in the Memphis in May Barbecue competition.

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Brass Door Celebrates First St. Patrick's Day

Submitted by Michael Phillips

Thursday, March 15th, 2012, 5:10pm

Downtown Irish pub The Brass Door is gearing up to celebrate its first St. Patrick’s Day with live music, food and drink specials, and plenty of fun.

The Brass Door opened at 152 Madison downtown last summer.

The pub’s neighboring alley will be closed off, with a stage set up for live music. Eight bands are scheduled to play, including Memphis-based Big Betsy, often referred to as “a wonderful Irish experience.”

Both the upstairs and downstairs bars will be open for business, and drink specials, including a corn beef and cabbage plate and $5 fish and chips and burgers and chips, will be offered throughout the day.

Read the entire story including an interview with the pub's Irish-born boss at the Memphis Daily News.

http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=67214

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