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1 week ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
An old friend is back. The Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers location at Summer Avenue and National Street reopened today, May 7th.
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1 week ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
After a three-year wait, Felicia Suzanne’s restaurant at 383 South Main Street is now open. And the restaurant, owned by Felicia Willett-Schuchardt and her husband, Clay Schuchardt, is every bit as fabulous as people thought it would be. She and Clay began looking for a new location in 2019, Felicia says. They previously were down the street on North Main Street. “We’d been there on that pedestrian mall 20 years,” she says. “We wanted to stay Downtown,” Clay says. They live in the South Main district.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
People helped the environment by attending Love Food Hate Waste, which was held Friday, April 11th, at Memphis Made Brewing Co. at The Ravine.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
If you don’t know already, Papa’s pimento cheese is one of your old friends. And it’s also a friend of Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson, who just announced his endorsement. It’s the old Holiday Deli & Ham Co. — “Holiday Ham” for short — pimento cheese, says Trey Jordan, founder, president, and CEO of Pimentos Brands, which makes the cheese. “Papa” is his dad, Don Jordan, his Holiday Ham co-founder. “Dad and I started it together in 1993.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers is becoming known for more and more items. Over the years, they’ve added everything from turkey burgers to fire-braised chicken to smoked bologna. Now the Memphis-based chain, which began in 1952, has a new slogan: “We put the que in quesadilla.”Tops recently introduced it’s Bar-B-Que Quesadilla. And, trust me, it’s incredibly delicious. I tried the pork quesadilla as well as the chicken quesadilla the other day. I’ve still got to try the beef brisket one. I can’t wait.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
After a year and a half in business, Elwoods’ Shack Park Avenue at 4040 Park Avenue closed today, April 25th. “Just not making a profit,” says owner Tim Bednarski. “I lost my butt. We’re doing decent sales. We’re just not making a profit like we used to. I’ve been doing this 45 years, and I can’t make a profit.”Park Avenue, which includes a spinet piano and antiques Bednarksi has collected, “does a thriving business, but my debt was so great.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
If you didn’t get to Tattoo Fest Memphis (the new name for the former “Memphis Tattoo Fest”), here’s a video showing some of the tattoo recipients and their tattoo artists in action. Whether it’s a leg, foot, or arm, Bodies are the canvases. This was the second year of the festival, which was held April 4th, 5th, and 6th at Renasant Convention Center. As Quinn Hurley, director of operations for the three-day festival, says, “This is an artistic show.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
Telling jokes for 40-plus hours is no laughing matter. That — with some breaks — is what Memphis standup comedian Benny Elbows plans to do between 6 a.m. April 25th through 10:15 p.m. April 26th at “40 + Hours of Stand-up” at the Hi Tone at 282-284 North Cleveland Street. Elbows, 40, will try to break the current Guinness Book of World Records record, which belongs to a comedian who did 40 hours and eight minutes straight. It’s not going to be easy. “There are a lot of rules,” Elbows says.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
In addition to being in a new location, Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken will be in a new episode of Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on the Food Network. His restaurant is now at 1725 Winchester Road, which is “one-fourth of a mile” from his old restaurant at 3633 Millbranch Road, says owner/founder Lou Martin. “A six-minute walk or a two-minute drive.” And the episode, titled “Sweet, Spicy and Savory,” will air at 7 p.m. on April 25th. Martin’s new building was formerly a Wendy’s location.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue
Beautiful weather, the smell of hamburgers, the sound of music from performers that included Lucero and Sons of Mudboy, and a throng of people helped make Huey’s 55th Anniversary Block Party a success. The party was held around the original Huey’s Midtown location at 1927 Madison Avenue. Huey’s now has eight locations in Tennessee and two in Mississippi, says Alex Boggs, Huey’s area director and marketing director.
