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!

I Love Memphis reviewed Nagasaki Inn, one of the city’s best kept hibachi secrets, today.

Here’s her description:

Nagasaki Inn is sort of like the Pete & Sam's of Japanese food. Time inside the restaurant seems to have stopped somewhere around 1965, and the space is laden with the nostalgia of past birthday dinners and special occasions.

You can read the full review (and after reading that excerpt, how can you not?) by clicking here.

Yesterday I met up with two of my friends from ArtsMemphis for lunch at one of Memphis’ hidden gems. Nestled in the Memphis Botanic Garden is Fratelli’s in the Garden. Minutes in either direction from a crowded Poplar Ave. and Park Ave. is a refuge from the urban world around us, one full of flowers, trees, big backyards, and awesome sandwiches! Fratelli’s is providing food at the Shell Out for the Arts event at the Levitt Shell on Friday night, so we wanted to stop by and say hello and get a little lunch.

The three of us sat at a nice patio table in the warm sun, not to be confused with the hot summer sun! In my opinion, fall is the best time to sit outside for a nice meal. While we waited for our drinks, we were treated to a nice olive appetizer.

I love olives, so this was great.

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