If you follow The Daily Memphian’s food or business sections, you’ve likely seen a new byline coming through on restaurant-related business stories: Sophia Surrett. 

In this episode of Sound Bites, we discuss the must-haves for laptop-friendly locations — it’s more than just good Wi-Fi — and share our favorite spots to write, send emails, meet or even pay bills.

Inspired by a road trip later this week, Chris Herrington quizzed colleagues Holly Whitfield and Natalie Van Gundy about gas-station grub habits, or maybe its weaknesses.

This week on Sound Bites, Chris Herrington and digital director Holly Whitfield discuss a few bits of recent Memphis restaurant news. 

Inspired by El Pollo Latino’s chicken-forward menu, Chris Herrington ranks 10 familiar ways to prepare (and consume) chicken, counting them down from 10 to one, discussing where he goes for each in Memphis.

In this week’s Sound Bites, producer Natalie Van Gundy and columnist Chris Herrington talk about some recent Memphis restaurant news: a new Elwood’s Shack looming, the opening of Hive Bagel & Deli and more.

On this week’s Sound Bites, food section contributor Joshua Carlucci and Chris Herrington discussed a couple of exciting new additions to the Memphis food scene that they’ve respectively written about in the past week and have each visited. 

On this week’s Sound Bites, Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington pore over the week’s food news for items of particular interest, including the University District’s Belltower Coffeehouse taking over the empty snack-shop space at Shelby Farms, and the return of a south-of-Downtown dive bar. 

On this week’s Sound Bites, Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington talk about some food stories they’ve each recently written and one recent Memphis food event they both missed. 

If you seek movie and show recommendations about food, cooking or chefs — this episode is for you.

This episode of Sound Bites serves as a pretty extensive vegan guide in the Memphis area, from plant-based comfort food and vegetarian delicacies to vegan food trucks and ghost kitchens, including Shroomlicious’ Korean “chicken” and waffles. 

With only 30 minutes, this coffee-themed episode of Sound Bites does focus mostly on newer Memphis coffee shops in the loop.

Chris Herrington talks with Joshua Carlucci, a former chef and teacher who’s become a regular contributor to The Daily Memphian food section.

Take a listen and then sound off in the comments — which do you think are the best restaurants in town to take visitors?

From stores to trailers and carts to coolers, Mempops has become an inseparable part of Memphis summers.

Some foods just say summer. We say bring those on, because we can almost touch them and we’re ready.

With 19 bags of assorted Lay’s potato chip flavors, four of us crinkled bags and crunched chips for a home and away Sound Bites and The Sidebar.

Not feeling the ribs or a barbecue sandwich? It’s OK, we got you. Try some of these non-traditional dishes in barbecue restaurants.

Eli Townsend’s new Dos Hermanos Kitchen inside the Cossitt Library is where he feels he’s meant to be, except in the winters, when he’ll be running another place in Rhode Island.

Bog & Barley is all it’s cracked up to be. Jennifer and Chris talk about the new East Memphis restaurant on Sound Bites, and talk of Easter meals leads to talk of cakes — as many roads do.

After a missed week, Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington have a lot to squeeze in 30 minutes on this week’s Sound Bites.

Sure, most of us liked brownies when we were kids and plenty of us still do, but what’s keeping it from having its heyday?

Keeping the pantry stocked with spices is key to be able to cook up a good meal; Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington discuss the most important ones.

Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington just wrote about tamales, and on this week’s Sound Bites, they talk about them, too.

We continue talk of cakes not just fit for but named for kings and talk about the food news of the week on this week’s Sound Bites.