Ken's Food Find

Bog & Barley

It Was My Birthday This review is VERY LATE in coming, with the reason being that I wasn't inspired to write it (I'm posting this on September 23, 2025, a day before my next birthday). It stems from my sense that none of the meals that I ate at Bog & Barley were noteworthy. …

Crockett Grocery

Great Wings! This will be a brief take on "hot wings" that I had recently. They came from one of the most unlikely places in the Bluff City, a convenience store in North Memphis. Crockett Grocery has been around for as long as I can remember, although I never considered it a pl…

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…