Restaurants

USDA partners with Tipton producer to expand regional retail beef sales

Submitted by Justin Hanson, West Tennessee Reporter

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, 3:43pm

USDA partners with Tipton producer to expand regional retail beef sales

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced grant awards to 110 agricultural producers and rural businesses that will help create jobs and develop new products. Claybrook Farm in Tipton County, Tenn. will use one of the grants to expand operations to include retail sales of Angus beef in the tri-state region.

According to Owner Dave Turner, Claybrook Farm has had great wholesale success with its Black Angus beef featured by chefs at restaurants in the Memphis area including Chez Philippe, The Peabody and Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen. "With the help of USDA we are now able to take the next big step and invest more in marketing and hire more people for sales and packaging so we can expand into the regional retail market," he said.

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Home Plate 'Caffe' receives low health inspection scores

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

Saturday, April 20th, 2013, 8:30pm

Malfunctioning equipment contributed to a Tipton County, TN, restaurant rating one of the lowest health inspection scores on the Restaurant Scorecard.

Casa Piatto Caffe, also known as Home Plate Caffe, 45 Reeder Rd. in Munford, failed its April 9 health inspection with a 54.

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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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Munford restaurant holds fundraiser for injured firefighters

Submitted by Justin Hanson, West Tennessee Reporter

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, 8:28am

Munford restaurant holds fundraiser for injured firefighters

A fundraiser was held Monday night for several firefighters injured in an accident

In January, a group of firefighters was putting out a grass fire in the median of Interstate 40 when a pick-up truck slammed into the back of their fire engine back in January.

Three firefighters were injured, among them, Captain Mack Green and Joshua Fair.

J-T's Burgers and Wings put 10 percent of all its sales... and ALL tips to help those firefighters during their fundraising event Monday night.

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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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