Ken's Food Find

Prince's Hot Chicken

Chicken Royalty After years of wishing, I finally got the opportunity to get some genuine Nashville Hot Chicken from the place that started it all. Prince's Hot Chicken was founded by James Thornton Prince, a womanizer who pissed off his girlfriend so badly that she sought revenge by …

Ecco

"Here" It Is It's not often that I get to write about restaurants that are close to my house, but one of the best Italian restaurants in Memphis is just a short bike ride away. Ecco is a neighborhood restaurant in the Crosstown section of Midtown, in the space formally occup…

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…