Try All the Things at the New Eighty3

Alas, Grill 83 (aka, that restaurant next door to the Madison Hotel) as you knew it no longer. It's been revamped, redesigned and re-cheffed into a new restaurant called Eighty3.

I tried it for the first time this week, and the changes are definitely for the better. First, the mood has completely changed. It could be the new urban-ish design, but Eighty3 no longer feels like a place where suits go for a drink after work or business travellers hang out. In fact, it doesn't feel much like a hotel restaurant at all.

For Japanese Food (and a Live Cooking Show), Try Nagasaki Inn

For dinner and a live cooking show, grab a seat at one of the Hibachi tables at Nagasaki Inn on Summer Avenue.

Nagasaki Inn is sort of like the Pete & Sam's of Japanese food. Time inside the restaurant seems to have stopped somewhere around 1965, and the space is laden with the nostalgia of past birthday dinners and special occasions.

Save Some Room: 8 Memphis Foods, Taken to the Extreme

It's no secret that Memphis is a great food city. We've got tons of incredible local restaurants serving everything from high-end French delicacies to dollar tacos. And, I don't care what anyone from Kansas or Chicago or North Carolina says, Memphis barbecue is the best. Memphis is also a great food city because of our culinary inventiveness, especially when it trumps all reason, logic and healthy eating guidelines. Here are eight ways that local restaurants have taken regular foods to the extreme: 1.

The One Where I Finally Get Around to Trying Pete & Sam's

My name is Kerry. I'm 26 years old, I'm a native Memphian, and last night was my first time going to Pete & Sam's. I know. Shame on me. How, at my age, could I not have tried Pete & Sam's? The best answer I could come up with is that my mom never took me when I was a kid. Also, the place always looks intimidatingly packed. Plus, it's the sort of place that people either love or love to be over - I'd heard both that it was the best Italian food in town and that it was way overrated.

42 Dominican: Mt. Moriah's Island Oasis of Tastiness

There's Dominican food in Memphis, but you're going to have to venture well outside of the I-240 loop to find it. The good news is, the food at 42 Dominican is very much worth the drive. For those of you not familiar, Dominican food is island food. Think of it as sort of a cross between Mexican and Creole, with lots of fresh vegetables and plantains. When it came to ordering, I was a little lost.
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