There are 17 article(s) tagged DJ Naylor:

• March 2025

  • What to Order: Bog & Barley’s beer-battered fish ‘n’ chips

    The Beer-Battered Fish N’ Chips at Bog & Barley are the real deal. 

    By Jennifer Chandler March 17, 2025

• January 2025

  • Table Talk: Haggis, poetry and bagpipes in store for Robert Burns Night

    Bog & Barley chef Reny Alfonso has created a Robert Burns Night menu that offers a modern spin to traditional Scottish dishes. 

    By Jennifer Chandler January 22, 2025

• October 2024

  • Here are 8 Memphis food, wine and beer events happening in October

    Enjoy the Nightmare on Union Avenue (a new-ish fall festival with an alpaca selfie station), Alchemy’s wine dinner, lots of beer at Cooper-Young — and save room for more.

    By Jennifer Chandler October 04, 2024

• April 2023

  • New Eats: Bog & Barley is open and you can eat and drink like the Irish

    Bog & Barley is the whole package: Beautiful space, friendly people, big bar — and great food.

    By Jennifer Biggs April 11, 2023

• March 2023

  • ‘One of the finest pubs in Ireland’ in Memphis: Bog & Barley opens next week

    To build out the new Bog & Barley, 447 pieces of the restaurant were built in Ireland, taken apart, boxed up, shipped here and then reassembled. Here’s a sneak peek before it opens next week. 

    By Jennifer Biggs March 27, 2023

  • Table Talk: Bog & Barley opens next month, Celebrity’s closes — maybe temporarily

    Plus, a substantial giveaway from Jersey Mike’s, a Tennessee pizza and beer place makes it into Halo and how much would you pay for your favorite cocktail. 

    By Jennifer Biggs March 23, 2023

• January 2023

  • How to haggis: Chef Alfonso makes his version of traditional dish for Burns supper

    For Celtic Crossing’s annual Burns supper, Chef Reny Alfonso starts by cooking chopped onion in a large pot. As it softens, he adds chicken broth to lamb, then puts it in the pot to lightly brown. Next comes the livers and then the herbs and spices. 

    By Jennifer Biggs January 27, 2023

• November 2021

  • Reny is back: Former Chez Philippe chef returns to Memphis to open Bog & Barley

    Reny Alfonso, the chef at Chez Philippe from 2005 to 2010, has returned to Memphis and will open Bog & Barley at Regalia with DJ Naylor.

    By Jennifer Biggs November 12, 2021

• October 2021

  • Table Talk: Whiskey, cider, pizza and beer – fall is here

    Reny Alfonso cooks for his first whiskey tasting at Celtic Crossing next week, then the Irish pub takes on Cider Fest two days later; FedExForum shows off food lineup for the season.

    By Jennifer Biggs October 20, 2021

  • Table Talk: Downtown Dining Week, Erling’s in the Doubletree, Bog & Barley restaurant coming soon

    Memphis Food & Wine Festival, Brewfest and Brunchfest are this weekend, Downtown Dining Week is set for Nov. 1-7, and Big Bad Breakfast brings its bad self to East Memphis.

    By Jennifer Biggs October 13, 2021

• March 2021

  • After a year on life support, restaurants start to ‘see some light’

    It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’ 

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    Chef Kelly English recalls a dark year: ‘My industry will never be the same'

    By Jennifer Biggs March 22, 2021

• January 2021

  • At Celtic Crossing, they’ll celebrate a hometown hero on Inauguration Day

    Celtic Crossing hosts a party on Jan. 20 to raise a pint to the new president, one a little town in Ireland claims as its own.

    By Jennifer Biggs January 14, 2021

  • A year to forget? Here are 20 good things we’ll remember about 2020

    Clever restaurateurs, fearless city planners and far-sighted entrepreneurs didn’t let 2020 slow them down. And if we needed reasons to cheer, we had Ja Morant and Brady White. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 14, 2021

• December 2020

  • Whiskey is passion, pleasure for pub owner everyone calls DJ

    DJ Naylor lives life with purpose and passion, loves a properly drawn Guinness, his family, his pub and most definitely, his whiskey.

    By Jennifer Biggs December 10, 2020

• March 2020

  • Destination: Delicious Podcast: Whiskey and St. Patrick’s Day

    Irish eyes will be smiling when whiskey experts get together to sample more than 60 sips at Celtic Crossing's "a candy store for grownups." 

    By Jennifer Biggs March 09, 2020

  • Celtic Crossing tasting to feature 60+ whiskeys

    World of Whiskey tasting will kick off St. Patrick’s Day a bit early this year; Memphis Black Restaurant Week starts Sunday; Mix-Odyssey 2020 is Friday.

    By Jennifer Biggs March 02, 2020

• March 2019

  • Destination: Delicious Podcast: The pluck of the Irish

    Irish restaurateurs DJ Naylor (Celtic Crossing) and Patrick Reilly (The Majestic Grille) talk Irish food, whiskey and a bit of history with Jennifer Biggs.

    By Natalie Van Gundy March 11, 2019