Restaurants

Justin Timberlake's Memphis-style barbecue restaurant going national

Submitted by Samantha Davidson on Friday, December 28th, 3:48 pm

Justin Timberlake's Memphis-style barbecue restaurant is about to go national.

The Millington native and entertainer created a restaurant called Southern Hospitality located in New York City.

Now multiple online sources are reporting a 30-city expansion plan, beginning in Denver, Colorado.

That Denver location is expected to open in January, followed by restaurants in Chicago, Illinois and Austin, Texas.

A new report releasedt this week also shows Atlanta, Georgia on the restaurant's radar.

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Perkins pancakes benefit kids

Submitted by Tim Van Horn, Meteorologist

Saturday, September 8th, 2012, 8:57pm

Saturday, September 15 is Give Kids The World Pancake Day at Perkins Restaurants.

Customers can receive a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes. While there, making a donation to Give Kids The World benefits children with life-threatening illnesses by giving them the chance to experience a cost-free family vacation in central Florida.

It's all part of Perkins' "Full Tummy Full Heart" campaign.

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River City Brewers Festival

Submitted by Katie Hannings, Editor

Thursday, March 8th, 2012, 1:47pm

The 3rd annual River City Brewers Festival will be Saturday, March 31 in Handy Park on Beale Street.

Beer from the across the country will be available for sampling as well as samples of signature dishes from some of Memphis' finest restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe and Pa Pa Pia's.

International brews will also be available for sampling.

More than 60 brewers are participating in the event with over 100 different flavors of beer. Samples are included in the price of admission for the festival.

The Ronald McDonald House has been selected as the benefactor for this year's festival.

River City Brewer's Festival

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Eat well, raise money at PGF Spring Supper

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012, 12:40pm

Fill your plate -- and your stomach -- while you mingle with some of the Mid-South's trendiest restaurateurs at the 4th Annual Project Green Fork Spring Supper.

Chickasaw Oaks Village, 3092 Poplar Ave., will host the event Sunday, May 6. Cocktails and appetizers start at 6 p.m., with supper at 6:30 p.m.

Proceeds benefit Project Green Fork, a Midtown-based non-profit dedicated to certifying and assisting Mid-South restaurants in reducing their environmental impact and in promoting local farms, foods and communities. 41 Mid-South restaurants are PGF-certified. One is featured each month as the PGF Restaurant of the Month on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard, Thursdays on Action News 5 at 10 p.m. (for the Restaurant Scorecard web page, click: http://www.wmctv.com/category/98904/restaurant-scorecard).

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When a restaurant's "score" is not the score

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, 12:31pm

A Tennessee restaurant should never score below a 90. Period. Any conscientious restaurant manager or fastidious health department inspector (they like to be called "environmentalists") will tell you that.

However, the fact is sometimes a restaurant's critical violation is really an environmentalist's judgment call.

Sometimes, they get it wrong.

Like the time a health department environmentalist slapped a Mexican restaurant with a critical violation for "improperly labeled" containers sitting on the pantry shelf with food items.

The containers' labels read "ajo" and "cebolla," respectively.

"Garlic." "Onion."

The restaurant's kitchen staff had labeled them in Spanish because, surprise, the staff speaks Spanish. You know, being a Mexican place and all.

But the environmentalist docked the establishment for not labeling the containers in English.

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Incredible Pizza Celebrates Black History Month with Contest

Submitted by Chris Payne on Sunday, February 5th, 10:39 am

America's Incredible Pizza Company at Hickory Ridge Mall is celebrating Black History Month with a literature and arts contest. The theme for the contest is "Honoring Our African-American Inventors as They Became Superheroes." The contest is open for grades K thru 12. Each student is required to write a short essay about their favorite African-American Inventor. If a student decides to use their artistic skills a short essay is also required. Each person that submits an essay or artwork at Incredible Pizza-Hickory Ridge Mall will receive a free $10 game card.

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What's behind that restaurant's health score

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Monday, January 23rd, 2012, 3:59pm

Despite reporting Mid-South restaurants' health inspection scores every Thursday on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard, I continue to meet viewers who don't know restaurants are required to post those scores, whether it's Tennessee, Mississippi or Arkansas.

Establishments must post those scores someplace where customers can see them: the entrance, cash register, bar, etc.

If they don't, it's a health code violation.

Mississippi's health department uses a letter-grade system: A, B, C. No failures. They are white reports with large, green grades. Restaurants typically frame them for public inspection.

The restaurant inspectors of the Arkansas Department of Health don't employ a grading system at all. They just list the violations.

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