Ken's Food Find

Itta Bena

Dinner & A Show Before going to The Orpheum to see my favorite Bluegrass band, I decided to have dinner at Beale Street's only upscale restaurant (as far as I know). It is above B.B. King's Blues Club, an unlikely place for that type of restaurant. In the past, accessing the…

Memphis Toast

On The "Smokey" Frontier When you have a dream about your responsibilities as a food blogger, you know that you're been away from the game too long. That said, I had a weird dream where I was at a food "pop-up" that was in the middle of the Summer Center parking l…

The Liquor Store

International Flavor If there was ever a place with a misleading name, it is The Liquor Store. A diner on the eclectic Broad Avenue district, the restaurant serves breakfast dishes with American and Latin (mostly Cuban) influences along with coffee and cocktails from a fully stocked bar. …

La Cocina Mexicana

Chickening Out A while ago, I wrote about a little restaurant near Memphis' VA hospital where I stopped for lunch a few times. Although BT Bistro is convenient when I go to the hospital, it's not where I go to lunch after seeing my primary care doctor at the VA clinic in Whitehav…

Buckley's Grill

Goodbye... When I returned to Memphis in 1994, I remembered driving by my old doctor's office where I went to as a kid. My doctor's office was located in East Memphis in an office park near Poplar Avenue, behind a Dairy Queen that intrigued me. I always wanted to go the "Quee…

Riko's Kickin' Chicken

A Shout Out! I want to give a shout out to one of the best chicken joints in Memphis that most of its citizens have never heard of. Riko's has been around for several years yet is never mentioned in the media for its fried chicken. In fact, I don't believe most Midtowners know wha…