Next weekend being Memorial Day weekend, Kimberly Ruskan presents her fourth Taste of Durham festival -- Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Imperial Center on Page Road just off I-40.

Local restaurants showing their stuff include Taverna Nikos, Blu Seafood, George's Garage, Grasshopper, Pomodoro, Bocci Trattoria & Pizzeria, Parizade and Pig Out Express -- along with several locally represented chains.

Taste of Durham's format also includes music of assorted styles, wine tasting, a Mardi Gras-ish parade and ice sculpting.

The festival site is outdoors in the Winchester Place section. Tickets are on sale at Harris Teeter stores and online: www.tasteofdurham.org.

Latest on Broad Street

From the Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad St., co-owner Jonathan Tagg reports that hot and cold sandwiches, along with soups, salads and platters, are on the lunchtime menu Tuesdays-Saturdays. Soon to be added: fruit smoothies. Tagg, who recently welcomed Daphne Lagasse as a partner in the business, also reports the addition of three new hired hands: See www.TheBroadStreetCafe.com.

Growing green

Green Tango is expanding. The five-year-old fast-food salad firm has leased 1,554 square feet at the Pavilion East on Erwin Road (old Methodist Retirement Home site), and plans to open its third location in late summer.

The first Green Tango opened in 2003 in the SouthCourt office building on Shannon Road; a Northgate Mall store opened two years later.

Side orders

Also in the food line, Xiloa, the Central American/Caribbean place at 748 Ninth St., is out of business and has been replaced by Chubby's Tacos. The old Bread & Kabob (which longtime Bull Citizens remember as a Steak & Eggs Kitchen) has been reincarnated as 1013 Main St. The place had been closed for remodeling for more than three years.

Coming condo

Architect Scott Harmon reports he has sold a ninth unit in his 506 Mangum condo-to-be project just outside the downtown Loop. (At the site of the sign advertising "Downtown Sexy.") That means he needs only one more presale before he can start construction. See www.mangum506.com.

Book up

BookDabbler, which is closing out as of May 24, has cut prices on all its used books to $1 each, same price as all commercial greeting cards. Owners Avi and Shawna Alkon advise, though, that they are staying in the discount new-book business via bookdabbler.com.