Little Tea Shop

"Here's a meal to make you feel strong as Popeye. The intense vegetable flavor of the greens and their likker is brilliantly haloed by the sharp taste of onion and the sweetness of the tomato on top. Several years ago, proprietor Suhair Lauck eliminated pork from the recipe (and from the Little Tea Shop kitchen), but the taste of these greens is, if anything, even more luxurious than before."
Michael Stern






"Corn sticks come with every meal. They are warm, crunchy, and earthy-flavored."
Michael Stern



"In the old tea-room tradition, the Little Tea Shop has order pads that customers fill out themselves."
Michael Stern



"The must-eat dessert on Memphis's Cotton Row: a Little Tea Shop ice cream pecan ball shrouded in chocolate."
Michael Stern



"The oldest restaurant in Memphis (since 1918), the Little Tea Shop is a bastion of regional foodways, but to its regular customers, it is simply a nice place to go for lunch five days a week. Once located in a basement, it moved to this location in 1935."
Michael Stern