Sound Bites

In this episode of Sound Bites, Natalie Van Gundy and Holly Whitfield join Eric Barnes to talk about which local brewery taprooms have the best atmosphere, our favorite patios and the most delicious food options.

Eric Barnes, Chris Herrington and Holly Whitfield are live in the WYXR studio for a Sound Bites/The Sidebar "Home and Away".

Inspired by a road trip later this week, Chris Herrington quizzed colleagues Holly Whitfield and Natalie Van Gundy about gas-station grub habits, or maybe its weaknesses.

Openings, closings, expansions, comebacks, updates. Restaurants are always busy being born and sometimes busy dying. This week on Sound Bites, digital director Holly Whitfield and columnist Chris Herrington discuss a few bits of recent Memphis restaurant news.

On this week's pod, inspired by El Pollo Latino's chicken-forward menu, Chris Herrington ranks 10 familiar ways to prepare (and consume) chicken, counting them down from 10 to one, discussing where he goes for each in Memphis.

In this week's Sound Bites, producer Natalie Van Gundy and columnist Chris Herrington talk about some recent Memphis restaurant news: A new Elwood's Shack looming, the opening of Hive Bagel & Deli, and more. But then they talk fair and fest food. Natalie brings clarity to the Pronto Pup vs. corn dog question. (Or, um, party dogs?) Chris issues a warning on the subject of funnel cakes. And they discuss their wish list for fair and festival foods we wish we saw more of at Memphis events.

On this week's Sound Bites, food section contributor Joshua Carlucci and Chris Herrington discussed a couple of exciting new additions to the Memphis food scene that they've respectively written about in the past week and have each visited.

On this week's Sound Bites, digital director Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington pour over the week's food news for items of particular interest, landing on a bevy of coffee-shop happenings, including the University District's Belltower Coffeehouse taking over the empty snack-shop space at Shelby Farms, and the return of a south-of-Downtown dive bar.

On this week's Sound Bites, digital director Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington talk about some food stories they each recently written and one recent Memphis food event they both missed.