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Table Talk: Patio season, please!
As warmer days make another attempt to dominate the calendar, it’s time to focus on patio season.
Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
There are 189 articles by Ellen Chamberlain :
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March 2026
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The To-Do List Welcome spring with beer, kites, fairies and all the colors of the rainbow
In this week’s To-Do List, there’s a comedy show at DKDC, a final goodbye from Journey at FedExForum and a mash-up of goth culture and cumbia music at Growlers.
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Food NewsFrom Pine Hill to Lamar Avenue and beyond, Hillboyz builds a Memphis success story
A Memphis-founded brand has global dreams. And it all started in Pine Hill, South Memphis.
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Food NewsMemphis chef is cooking up community
At a local library, Chef Jasmen Richmond is using the kitchen to dish out more than just recipes by building literacy, business skills and confidence for children.
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Food News Memphis Made closing taproom
In August 2025, The Daily Memphian reported that Memphis Made was for sale after the company filed for bankruptcy.
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EducationRemington ‘cafe’ class gives culinary students a taste of the real world
Remington teaches courses in the basics — knife skills, butchery, classic cooking techniques and plating — before students take a course that everyone simply calls “cafe.”
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Table TalkTable Talk: Festival season kicks off with a cocktail
What seems to set this event apart from others in the same vein is the craft component to the offerings. There isn’t any single brand or spirit featured.
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Food News Hot wing festival introduces World Wing Cup
The inaugural winners of the Wing World Cup will get a trophy, bragging rights and $25,000.
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The To-Do List Trolley Night is back, and a garden party at the Dixon is gonna be golden
In this week’s To-Do List, a Ghanaian artist makes life-sized movie poster art, an author chases ghosts at Elmwood and Soul & Spirits has a street-food fest.
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Food NewsBlack lemonade? Why activated charcoal is showing up on area menus
Stirred into lemonade and other drinks, activated charcoal is a current wellness trend. But its actual effects are more nuanced than many people assume.
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BusinessCrawfish season’s near its boiling point. Here’s where to buy them.
It’s mudbug season, and trucks such as Crawfish Cabin and Memphis Crawfish Co. are crawling in the season’s biggest, better crustaceans.
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Food News Barbecue? There’s an app for that
Users will be able to customize orders for pickup or for delivery.
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April 2026
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Food NewsNo joke, Piccadilly’s newest to-go location opens April 1
A post-pandemic shift in Piccadilly’s customer behavior led the company to downsize from a larger restaurant on Mount Moriah Road to a drive-thru location on Riverdale Road.
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Table TalkTable Talk: New app sounds off on restaurant noise
They say we first “eat” with our eyes. Next comes smell. But a new app is helping restaurant-goers with another one of the five senses: hearing.
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