Restaurants

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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Project Green Fork to be featured monthly on Restaurant Scorecard

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

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, 11:12am

Talented chefs, tasty entrees -- all going easy on the environment.

Sounds ripe for a regular hit on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard. Starting in February, it will be!

Next month, Action News 5 and Project Green Fork (http://projectgreenfork.org/) will team up to showcase the PGF Restaurant of the Month as a regular feature on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard.

Project Green Fork is a Midtown Memphis-based non-profit, dedicated to supporting Mid-South restaurateurs who go the extra mile in reducing their environmental impact and who promote local farms, foods and communities.

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Eco Expo!

Submitted by Kym Clark on Friday, January 6th, 12:50 pm

The hugely successful Eco Expo is back with even more exhibitors showing us how to treat our earth more gently with green products, materials, services, and organizations.

Exhibitors will be offering ideas and information, and some will be selling their products and services.

The Expo is Sunday February 5th, 2012 from 11am until 3pm at Temple Israel--1376 East Massey Road...Memphis, TN.

For kids and adults of all ages, there’s something for everyone!

Learn, eat, explore, or just visit with some really nice people.

Remember the proverb, “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children.”

We are working together with our fellow community leaders and congregations of all faiths to help save the planet.

E-mail TIMemphisEcoExpo@msn.com or call Linda Kaplan 482-6473 for more information.

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Eat Local Memphis: 10 Meals I’m Thankful For!

Submitted by Thomas Robinson on Thursday, November 24th, 5:43 pm

I’m sitting at home with my tie loosened and my sport coat thrown over a chair as I attempt a rapid recovery from round 1 of the K&T Thanksgiving Double. Round one saw a grand buffet at the club, and I’m prepping myself for round two over at K’s dad’s house. I always joke with people about how many places K and I will go on holidays, since we are both Memphians with big families. But really, no joke, it is awesome. We have awesome people to spend quality time with, and with the cooking skills in both families, we have awesome meals to do it over.

On that note, while I am thankful for the blessings of good friends and family to spend my time with, I’ll wax nostalgic a little about the blog. It has been awesome writing this thing. I’ve gotten to meet new people, try new food, and in my own way, support a lot of cool people and my city at the same time. With that, I’ll look back on 10 meals that I was especially thankful for in the last year in no particular order... Read More

Read the rest of the review on Eat Local Memphis!

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"Free Food Friday"

Submitted by Tammy Phillips on Friday, November 18th, 2:25 pm

It's "Free Food Friday" at Action News 5. We teamed up with the Midtown Lennys and Curbside Casseroles in east Memphis to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

What will your office do to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank?

On "Free Food Friday", we ask our staff to join us for a FREE lunch in exhange for a donation to the Mid-South Food Bank. It's the second year for the fundraiser at Action News 5. Staffers were treated to turkey, ham, dressing, green breans, pyramid potatoes, salad, pecan pie, apple pie and much more from Curbside Casseroles. Lennys provided turkey, ham, tuna and even chicken salad sandwiches with all the fixin's, chips, cookies and drinks. The food was delicious!

Curbside Casseroles loaded us up with delicious food.

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Dine out to support scholarships, services for children with Autism

Submitted by Andrew Douglas on Tuesday, September 27th, 8:37 am

“Dine Out For Autism” September 27 & 29, 2011

Transformations would like to announce “Dine Out For Autism” event, scheduled Tuesday, September 27 and Thursday, September 29, 2011″ Proceeds from this event will help fund our scholarship program to provide free services to children affected by ASD. The following restaurants have agreed to donate a percentage of their proceeds for this worthy cause:

Tuesday, September 27

The Commissary – 2290 Germantown Rd., Germantown – All Day!
On The Border – 2766 N. Germantown Pkwy, Memphis – (in front of Wolf Chase Galleria) – 4 p.m. to close.

Thursday, September 29

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Memphis wings judged best in nation

Submitted by Ben Watson, Reporter

Thursday, September 15th, 2011, 3:14pm

D’Bo’s, the longtime Memphis restaurant chain, has some new bragging rights.

The national wing festival held in Buffalo, New York, this month judged the company’s dry rub wings “the best in the nation.”

That’s quite a compliment considering the fact that the Buffalo festival is considered the mecca of chicken wings. This year’s contest drew 71,000 attendees who were served 33 tons of wings. D’Bo’s Wings and More's entry won first place in the creative sweet category for the restaurant's seasoned wings

Most chicken wings are served covered in sauce, a cooking style know as “wet wings.” But instead of “wet,” David and Leticia Boyd, owners of D’Bo’s Inc, brought some of their wings to the contest with Memphis Dry Rub Seasoning applied to them.

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