In 1996 BJ Chester-Tamayo’s only son Will, known as Go-Go, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Her whole world changed. She had always wanted to manufacture her mother’s preserves, so she took that dream and opened a restaurant named after her mother and her granddaughter, both named Alcenia. She never cooked growing up. She learned […]
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Memphis, Restaurants, Season 4, TennesseeUncle Lou’s Fried Chicken on Millbranch Road in Memphis has been serving the kind of fried chicken that makes people drive across town without explanation since Louis Martin opened it decades ago. The sweet and spicy sauce that goes on the bird is the item that has built a national reputation, and it was what
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Memphis, Restaurants, Season 4, TennesseeMarlowe’s Ribs sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, which means it occupies a stretch of road that carries the weight of the city’s most famous son. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution for years, serving Memphis-style ribs and BBQ to locals and the Graceland tourist crowd alike, with the quality earning a loyal
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeRay Robinson opened Cozy Corner in Memphis in 1977 after years of perfecting his BBQ recipes at home in Colorado, where he and his wife Desiree had moved from Memphis before eventually returning. The Cornish game hen was on the menu from the beginning because, as Desiree explains it simply, “We liked it.” Cozy Corner
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeTom’s Bar-B-Q has been feeding Memphis from its New Getwell Road location for decades, operating as a classic neighborhood pit stop where the regulars know exactly what they’re getting and first-timers figure it out quickly. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “The Memphis BBQ Tour,” which aired May 26,
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeIn 1922 Leonard Heuberger traded a Model T Ford for a 7-stool sandwich stand in South Memphis and started selling chopped pork sandwiches for five cents. That modest beginning grew into what became, by the 1940s and 1950s, the world’s largest barbecue drive-in restaurant, with 20 car-hops working the canopied lot serving a daily parade
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeLittle Tea Shop appeared in Season 3, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Classics,” aired May 12, 2008 — as a Memphis downtown lunch institution serving Southern soul food the way it was meant to be served: scratch-made, generous, and deeply rooted in the regional cooking tradition that makes Memphis food culture
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