Memphis and the Mid-South.
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15 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 15 of them.
Memphis12
Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous cooks in its alley off Union, Payne's chops shoulder, Central BBQ holds Midtown, and Hog & Hominy, Tart and City & State work the other side of the plate.
Around Memphis1
Memphis BBQ Company cooks at Horn Lake, just over the Mississippi line from the city.
Arkansas1
Diamond Bear brews at North Little Rock, across the river from the capitol.