Barksdale Restaurant

237 South Cooper, Memphis, TN - (901) 722-2193

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Posted By Michael Stern on April 11, 2009 10:44 PM

Memphians flock to the Barksdale Restaurant Saturday mornings for big weekend breakfasts built around omelets with the works. The rest of the week, the café opens every day at 6:30, but the crowds arrive mid-day. That is when you can eat a hearty and low-priced plate lunch of pork chops (every Monday), country-fried steak (Wednesday and Thursday), or catfish (Friday). The meat is sided by a trio of well-cooked vegetables and just-made cornbread, followed by lemon ice box pie, banana pudding, or peach cobbler. You can’t go wrong.

Barksdale breakfast is what we like best, six days a week. It is a southern paradigm of aromatic country ham that is resilient but easy to slice, served with a side dish of red-eye gravy to spoon onto grits. All breakfasts are accompanied by excellent biscuits, hot from the oven. If red-eye is not your dish, peppery milk gravy is also available, and it is superb.

The wood-paneled wall of the Barksdale Restaurant is lined with signed pictures of fans who have 8x10 glossies to send, including musicians, local celebrities, and a few Elvis impersonators. Each inscribes the photo with a sentiment. One handsome face we didn’t recognize wrote, Thanks for the gravy fix!

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ham and red-eye gravy

Biscuits

Omelet and Home Fries

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