It’s another weekend to hit the great outdoors. 

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. 

It’s the 48th year for the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, and it’s a homecoming of sorts for some of the teams that participated in rival barbecue festival SmokeSlam for the past two years.

“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 Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest returns this week as the only barbecue fest in town. 

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.

Here are some suggestions for treating your mom on a budget. 

Coconut cake holds a special place in Monique Williams’ heart.

The Annunciation Church community starts preparing months in advance to make thousands of pastries in several varieties sold at the annual Greek Festival, held May 8 and 9 this year.

It’s peak spring this Saturday, with events galore scheduled. 

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

A near-perfect night in Downtown Memphis started with the fried chicken sandwich from South of Beale Downtown. 

“I normally would have said no to a skewered sea creature, but as The Daily Memphian’s new food reporter, I know there are times I’ll need to get out of my culinary comfort zone.”

Historically, West Tennessee has been known for commodity crops such as soy, corn and especially cotton. But in recent years, an increasing number of area farmers have started growing specialty crops — like peaches — because they’re more profitable per acre.

“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.