memphis food to try or have again in 2019

- restaurants, recommendations, memphis -

i am constantly on the look out for new restaurants, whether that be scrolling through instagram or just scanning while in the car, but when it comes time for my choice on a meal, i often forget about that cool coffee shop down the road or the new restaurant that just opened. because of this all too often dilemma i seem to find myself with, i made my ultimate list of restaurants that i either know i love or that i've been wanting to try. there are also food-related activities that i've been wanting to do, like a city tasting tour or a class at salud cooking school. i've already checked off a couple from this list in 2019 (see pictures above) and my goal is to hit every single spot on it!

(these are in no particular order)

1. take a city tasting tour
2. brussels from catherine and mary’s
3. crème brûlée donut from rise saddle creek
4. steak fajita nachos from los comales on perkins
5. take a cooking class at salud cooking school in whole foods
6. sushi burrito from sushi jimmi
7. P3 from brother junipers
8. poutine from hog and hominy
9. loaded cheese fries from huey’s
10. chilaquiles verdes with fried chicken from el mero taco truck​
11. red eye pizza from hog and hominy
12. the spicy pork rice bowl and pork dumplings from fam 
13. medium tender plate with pimento mac from hattie b’s
14. pimento cheese and bacon scone from muddy’s
15. sopa de pollo with corn tortillas from los comales
16. eat at every restaurant in crosstown (links to the below spots on crosstown's website)
    • syrian spinach pies with tabouleh and baklava from global café
    • chicken wings in saucy wing sauce from saucy chicken
    • the magic egg pizza from elemento pizza
    • farm burger and pimento cheese fries from farm burger
    • thai green curry bowl from today and always
    • baja burger from next door eatery
    • banana nutella pop from mempops
    • dutch chocolate ice cream from area 51 ice cream
    • NOLA iced latte from french truck coffee
    • pb&j smoothie from i love juice bar
    • lemon white chocolate cookies from lucy j’s bakery
17. fried chicken tacos from el mero taco truck
18. pretzel bites from dave’s bagels
19. bison tacos with avocado from fuel food truck
20. chorizo torta from los tortugas deli mexicana
21. orecchiette from tamboli produce
22. coffee: my usual is a nonfat iced latte, so, unless specified, that’s what i’ll choose
    • nonfat iced vanilla latte from ugly mug
    • hot latte from vice and virtue
    • belltower artisans
    • boba from launch process coffee
    • city and state
    • french truck coffee
    • low fi coffee
    • java cabana
    • otherlands
    • bluff city coffee
    • square beans
    • society skatepark and coffee
23. peppery blue cheese fig bites from carrington’s catering (farmer’s markets)
24. chef’s tasting menu at andrew michael Italian kitchen
25. general tso’s chicken from wang’s mandarin kitchen
26. dave’s bagel everything bagel with herb and chive schmear from city block salumeria (this cream cheese is phenomenal!)
27. spicy chicken lettuce wraps from wok’n in memphis
28. oreo puddin’ from muddy’s
29. chipotle chili from inspire community café  
30. bao or pork belly rice bowl from lucky cat ramen