Weekly Eats · Monday, August 17, 2026
The Flyer · Broad Avenue
This brief is thin on brand-new rooms, so the liveliest local dining clip is Michael Donahue’s anniversary piece: Christopher “FreeSol” Anderson and Thomas Brownlee’s sit-down turkey-leg shop — stuffed legs, smoked wings, beignets, a real bar. Hip Hop & R&B Bingo is 3–7 p.m. every third Sunday, which is this Sunday, Aug. 16. R&B Patio Wednesdays are weekly.
Source: Memphis Flyer
Photo: Michael Donahue / Memphis Flyer
A thin first edition. The Commercial Appeal’s August dining page is a four-restaurant “try these” column, not an openings map. The Flyer is on an anniversary and a September festival. The one hard coming date is a riverfront seafood room aimed at Sept. 1. No Eater Memphis.
August 2026 — only sourced marks
Commercial Appeal dining URLs returned 402 on a direct fetch; the April openings list and the Aug. 4 recommendations column were read via WebFetch. I Love Memphis’s new-restaurants page Cloudflare-challenged. Memphis Business Journal’s Walt & Ricky’s Sept. 1 item is paywalled; Downtown Memphis Commission filings say a September 2026 target. Aggregator listings for a Bumpus rib contest and FoodieLand were left out. Eater has no Memphis vertical.
Real og:images from cited stories only
Openings · Germantown · July 1
Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman’s first new local rooms in about six years: Italian-American downstairs (110 seats, house breads, fried ravioli with a Hudman-grandmother gravy), cocktail tavern upstairs. Named for their daughters; Rosie’s for partner Benjamin Orgel’s. NRN dated the open July 1. FSR lists Josephine Estelle 5–9:30 p.m. Tue–Thu and Sun, 5–10 Fri–Sat, closed Monday; Rosie’s from 4 p.m. Resy. Brunch “in the coming weeks” as of that release — this desk did not find a later brunch confirmation.
Sources: Nation’s Restaurant News, July 1, FSR, Memphis Flyer (pre-open)
Photo: Lauren McGoff / NRN
Coming · Downtown
Mowbray Rowand (Esco, Fat Tuesday) on the riverfront. DMC filings: seafood, oysters, steaks, cocktails, daytime hours by Tom Lee Park, 10-year lease from April 1. Application target opening: September 2026. Memphis Business Journal’s July 17 headline said Sept. 1; that article is paywalled here. The bun stamp in this WhatNow photograph reads “Wally,” the filings say Walt — the name is Walt & Ricky’s in the city paperwork.
Sources: Downtown Memphis Commission filing, What Now Memphis
Text only — this weekend is thin in the food press
Sunday · Broad Avenue
The Flyer’s only dated weekend food event this desk could pin: third Sunday of the month. Anderson told Donahue they may comp a meal or a drink when someone hits bingo. Not a festival. If you need a reservation-looking Saturday, the papers did not publish one.
Source: Memphis Flyer
Text only — recent, or reviewed this month. Not all are new doors.
Reviewed Aug. 4
Commercial Appeal guest column: steamed beef buns, pan-fried dumpling sampler, beef fried noodles, beef skewers, malatang beef. A “try now” review, not an opening date.
Source: Commercial Appeal, Aug. 4
Reviewed Aug. 4
Same CA column. Social Desiii (9959 Winchester, Collierville): butter masala, 65 pakoras, masala fries. Raymah Café (3895 Hacks Cross): Honeybun latte, potato-and-egg scramble. No Comment relaunched in June 2026 from wine bar to full restaurant; happy hour 5–7 p.m. Tue–Fri, $10 flights.
Source: Commercial Appeal, Aug. 4
Downtown · June 18
CA, June 8/12: soul-food and entertainment room catty-corner to the Civil Rights Museum. Grand opening was dated June 18 after a takeout soft launch. Older than this window; listed so the June clip is not mistaken for an August open.
Source: Commercial Appeal, June 8
Text only
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Flyer music piece on Cooper-Young Fest also dates The Narrows’ album Chris listening session here, then a release show / fundraiser at Growler’s on Sat., Aug. 29. Music, not a dinner — on the calendar because the Flyer tied it to the September food-and-music street fest.
Source: Memphis Flyer, Aug. 5
Saturday, Sept. 19
WMC and the Flyer: two stages (Guaranty Bank, Mempho Presents), neighborhood restaurants, vendors. Official neighborhood copy still talks 130,000 people and 435 artisans. Food specifics for 2026 were not in the lineup stories; do not invent trucks.
Sources: WMC, Aug. 5, Memphis Flyer
Text only — April’s CA “opening in 2026” list, status unchecked where no later clip exists
Overton Square · no date
Steve Minter told the CA in April that summer 2026 was the hope. No August confirmation found.
Source: Commercial Appeal, April 6
Midtown · no date
Family-first room (adults bring a kid). Music hall stays; tree house planned. April CA, no later open date found.
Source: Commercial Appeal, April 6
April list, likely already done
CA April 6: Second Line to 4550 Poplar “this week”; J Woods at 103 Harbor Town Square “this spring”; Waffle and Pancake House at 420 S. Germantown Parkway. This desk did not re-verify August status. Not treated as new this month.
Source: Commercial Appeal, April 6