Maybe I'm crazy, but if I've got a choice between chocolate gelato and cheese flavored gelato, I'm choosing cheese every time. Assignment #174 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis is to stop playing it safe with your gelato selection.
There's no point in sticking with the standards, especially at Yolo, where their evil genius gelato chef Will Johnson makes flavors like mascarpone and avocado cilantro.
Since legislation allowing food trucks was passed last spring, Memphis has been obsessed with meals on wheels. There's no better place to indulge your food truck jones than at the newly-formed Memphis Food Truck Association's weekly truck rodeos, the first of which was held on Sunday in the Broad Ave. Arts District.
As someone who writes about food regularly, I feel like I've got some weird, self-inflicted responsibility to never eat the same thing twice (unless I'm just eating out of efficiency - that's different).
This week, a salad caused me to break my rules.
Meet Local Gastropub's Thai Noodle Salad, the meal that I've eaten twice in the past four days (only, really, it's been closer to four times since the salad is huge enough to warrant a to-go box).
(ed. - Sorry about the bad "Love Shack" reference. I had to.)
ed. note. - The Pizza Shack is closed. This location is now home to the lovely Elwood's Shack restaurant.
It took three tries, but I finally managed to find the Hollywood Pizza Shack.
Reader Shane suggested that I give Emilio's Grocery on Getwell a try, so I stopped in for lunch.
The spiciest thing I've eaten this week also has the best name of anything I've eaten ever. This, friends, is the Fireball of Freedom from the Kwik Check.
After a Grizzlies game got out a few nights ago, I found myself wandering downtown in search of dinner. I didn't want anything too fancy, and I wasn't feeling a bar. After a few attempts, And there, in the middle of Second St., was Flying Fish, glowing like a bright white beacon of semi-late night dining.
