Posts Tagged ‘Reasons to Love Memphis’
Memphis has been bitterly cold for the past week. Last night, we finally got some pay off in the form of an inch or so of slushy white powder.
Memphis is funny about snow days. They’re highly anticipated. Kids are excited, employees are freaked out about driving to work, and the grocery stores are packed with [...]
Here’s a good reason to love Memphis – there’s a restaurant called Carnival Food that serves (you guessed it) carnival food year-round, seven days a week.
Carnival Food has been open for about a month and is run by a couple that also has a food truck that they take to flea markets, fairs and carnivals.
You [...]
I know, I know. It’s cold, and riding a bike is probably not high on your list of fun winter experiences.
But in every Memphis winter, a few 70 degree days must fall. And spring (and the opening of the Greenline) is coming soon. Maybe you’re visiting Memphis without a car and you need a way [...]
Flashback never misses a chance to decorate for a holiday, but shop owner Millet Vance goes all out at Christmas. The window looks like the happiest place on earth. There have been years when I would have happily spent Christmas morning in that window, surrounded by vintage toys, pink flamingos and stylish mannequins.
Memphis water comes from a huge underground aquifer (not the Mississippi River). When you turn your tap on to brush your teeth, the water that comes out is the same stuff that companies bottle and sell in vending machines. I’d be really interested to compare the bottled water sales figures for Memphis and another city of its size.
Sure, we can be all about fried food in Memphis, but man can’t survive on breading alone.
Memphis has some of the world’s most fantastic produce. Consider the Ripley tomato. Ripley tomatoes are grown just a little ways north of Memphis in Ripley, Tenn. I’m not sure what the nice people in Ripley do to their [...]
Black Lodge has grown to carry more than 10,000 VHS tapes and 8,000 DVDs of all genres. The guys that run it are huge film fans and if you don’t know what you want or need a recommendation, they’re happy to help.
I went to Little Tea Shop on Monroe yesterday with Ryan and Ramona (my internet cohorts here at the CVB). When we walked in, at least three of the women working there immediately came over to greet us.
They called Ryan and Ramona by name, hugged them and there was plenty of talk about families and [...]