Best Memphis Burger Fest is now Burgerfest Memphis! Get more info on this year's event here.

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Prepare your palettes, because the Best Memphis Burger Fest is back for round two.

Ethiopian Restaurant is a straightforward kind of place, so much so that It's name is, as far as I can tell, just Ethiopian Restaurant. It's like they took all of the effort they could have put into branding and decorating and naming the restaurant something catchy into and put it into the food instead. Which, when you think about it, is probably how it should be. I stopped by for lunch today, which meant that I got to try the $9 all-you-can-eat lunch buffet.

The happy place for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and omnivorous eaters. Also: JUICE!

For clean eating, healthy food, gluten-free, vegan, or omnivorous diets, head to City Silo. Their focus on fresh, healthy eats and accommodating all types of dietary needs makes then stand out. If you’re looking for a healthy meal or a vegetarian restaurants in Memphis—head to one of their locations. 

Hog and Hominy has been doing a little expanding. Meet the Holding Pen, the restaurant's new back porch addition.

I corrected a very serious mistake today over lunch: I went to Tycoon. 

I hadn't been avoiding it; somehow, I wasn't aware of its existence until about three days ago. How has a place like this managed to stay a secret for so long?

Dishcrawl is a new Memphis event that combines three of my favorite things - food, new friends and adventures - into a single, super fun evening.

Dishcrawls are a series progressive dinners where you and 40 other foodies eat your way through a specific neighborhood over the course of an evening. It's like a pub crawl, but with food instead of beers.

I realize that it's silly to tell you to eat soup when it's a bajillion degrees outside, but I'm doing it anyway.

I've been writing about food long enough to know that what I'm about to do isn't the best way to start a restaurant review, but in this case, it's the most honest way: I (mostly) have no idea what I ate at the VGM Market this afternoon, but I loved every single bit of it.

The VGM Market is a small Filipino grocery store with a restaurant and ice cream shop inside. As far as I can tell, it's Memphis' only Filipino food outlet.

Attention, Cuban food lovers: a dedicated Cuban restaurant called Havana's Pilon is now open downtown. The special today was ropa vieja, and being unfamiliar with Cuban food, that's what I ordered.