Im moving to Memphis! Help a brother out!

[Guest jackdm3]

Beale Street and Mud Island are the safest parts of town. You can't have your tourist get assaulted. Police are very visible downtown.

Yeah, but you'll be accosted be panhandlers within an inch of your life, if you hang out there long enough.

[Mike.357]

Road trip? Lets plan this for sometime this year. Maybe the fall?

I'd like to got to BB King's bar and the hamburger joint that uses grease that is like 100 years old.

Definitely need to do this.

[Capbyrd]

Dyer's is the hamber place of which you speak.

[Guest SUNTZU]

I'd like to got to BB King's bar and the hamburger joint that uses grease that is like 100 years old.

Definitely need to do this.

Sounds good. Erik, no problem.

[Mike.357]

shotgun

[Guest db99wj]

Yeah, but you'll be accosted be panhandlers within an inch of your life, if you hang out there long enough.

Most panhandlers will go after people who they perceive as "weak", the guy that looks down while they walk, not paying attention, fumbling around. When I worked in midtown (near Methodist Central), I had run ins with a lot of them, usually had to chase one off the bank property for sleeping in the doorway. If you stare them in the eyes, and mouth "Get the F@#$ away from me", they typically keep on going. There are some that are very aggressive and take no for an answer. They are usually selling something like roses are something.

Texas De Brazil FTW. I know it is a chain, but meat, meat and more meat, don't fill up on the salad, their lobster bisque soup is outstanding.

[Links2k]

Ummm...don't leave that disc on green too long or you will get flooded by all the meat servers.

[Guest db99wj]

Ummm...don't leave that disc on green too long or you will get flooded by all the meat servers.

No doubt, that's the only language they speak, red or green. I don't trust the sausage ones.

[Guest SUNTZU]

There are some that are very aggressive and take no for an answer. They are usually selling something like roses are something.

"You keep it up and your gonna need those roses."

[tnhawk]

Dyer's is the hamber place of which you speak.

The burgers there were good but fast acting! Stay near a restroom cause you'll need it.

[Links2k]

Yeah, I imagine 100 year old grease passes pretty fast.

[Guest Daelith]

Welcome to Memphis!

[MphsTiger1981]

Just saw your thread. Welcome to Memphis!

[Guest BigNoise]

Thanks guys.

[Garufa]

I'd like to got to BB King's bar and the hamburger joint that uses grease that is like 100 years old.

Definitely need to do this.

Dyer's is the hamber place of which you speak.

The burgers there were good but fast acting! Stay near a restroom cause you'll need it.

Yeah, I imagine 100 year old grease passes pretty fast.

They'll even dip the whole burger in the ancient grease if you ask. Bun and all. I forget what they call that.

[mikegideon]

The burgers there were good but fast acting! Stay near a restroom cause you'll need it.

There are several places in Memphis that do it on a random basis. We called it spontaneous defecation.

[Guest SUNTZU]

There are several places in Memphis that do it on a random basis. We called it spontaneous defecation.

[Guest jackdm3]

Get ya started:

Movies:

Paradiso at Poplar and Mendenhall

Studio on the Square

Orpheum's Summer Film Series downtown, mostly old movies

When I wanna get fed up:

Huey's (all locations are good and some are posted)

Memphis Pizza Cafe (a few locations)

RP Tracks at Walker and Highand

BBQ: Central for jumbo sandwiches where you'll be hardpressed to find any fat, Corky's for ribs but pork shoulder can be padded with fat, Rendezvous ribs downtown, Neely's downtown on 3rd(?) for sandwiches

North End's mudslide pie award winner

Breakfast at Brother Juniper's on Walker at Highland

Food on the cheap:

Lots of Lenny's and Backyard Burgers and McAlisters

Healthful food groceries:

Whole Foods at Paradiso lot

Books:

Davis-Kidd at Perkins off Poplar

Bookstar Poplar west of Highland

Barnes and Noble, N. Germantown

Museums:

Pink Palace (gotta go once)

Brooks

Dixon

Rock and Soul/Stax

Graceland

Sun Studios

Malls:

Wolfchase at Germantown and Stage/Hi 64

Oak Court at Poplar and Perkins

On Beale St., you WILL be searched!

There will be others to come along and add preferences, and there's plenty that's escaped me that's second nature to me.

Edited July 5, 2010 by jackdm3

[kb4ns]

When you need good BBQ on the cheap and fast, Tops BBQ has several locations in Memphis and rarely disappoints.

[Guest jackdm3]

I was gonna say that, but I quickly remembered the many times I found big veins and globs of fat in my sammy, and I had to start deconstructing them to "purify" before I could eat. That usually left me with 66% of my original sandwich.

But when they get it right, it's not bad and the locations are everywhere.

[Chucktshoes]

BBQ Shop.

[Guest jackdm3]

That's reasonably close to the Big Noisy One.

[mikegideon]

BBQ Shop.

+1. Add Neeley's and Interstate (also Neeley's)

[Guest jackdm3]

When I wanna get fed up:

Huey's (all locations are good and some are posted)

Memphis Pizza Cafe (a few locations)

RP Tracks at Walker and Highand

BBQ: Central for jumbo sandwiches where you'll be hardpressed to find any fat, Corky's for ribs but pork shoulder can be padded with fat, Rendezvous ribs downtown, Neely's downtown on 3rd(?) for sandwiches

North End's mudslide pie award winner

Breakfast at Brother Juniper's on Walker at Highland

Not left out, though I never go due to the area I don't enter much.

[kb4ns]

I was gonna say that, but I quickly remembered the many times I found big veins and globs of fat in my sammy...

Ummm, that's called flavor!

Really, I've never had a problem with the food at any of the locations except the one in Frayser.