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I suggest eating it as a taco with the meat and black beans. The Neighborhood: Normal Station Neighborhood in East Memphis Park Ave. Why We Love It: Over the past 11 years, Nada Hammoud has served dishes from across the Mediterranean and her home country of Lebanon at her tiny café that seats only about 20 guests.

Her café is pretty basic with fast casual service and Styrofoam plates and plasticware. However, after one bite of her food, you feel like you are royalty.

Hammoud makes everything from scratch, and you can tell. The chicken is moist, flavorful and so tender you can cut it with a fork. This sampler plate comes with hummus, baba ganoush eggplant dip , falafel, dolmades stuffed grape leaves , spanakopita and pita bread.

The Neighborhood: Two locations Summer Avenue and Normal Station Neighborhood in East Memphis Summer Ave. and Park Ave. Owner Tim Bednarski has created an eclectic menu featuring everything from smokehouse favorites like pork shoulder and brisket to pizzas to tacos.

The restaurant is small and super casual. On nice nights, most customers dine outside on picnic tables. in September. The Neighborhood: Soulsville Mississippi Blvd.

Why We Love It: Good food has a way of bringing people together. As one of the oldest restaurants in Memphis, The Four Way is a soul food institution, with regular patrons including civil rights leaders like Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and music icons such as Al Green and Isaac Hayes. Fried chicken with your choice of light or dark meat , fried catfish, turkey and dressing, neck bones, fried green tomatoes, yams, turnip greens and macaroni and cheese are a few of the soul food dishes that have brought in devoted customers for more than 70 years.

Each order comes with a breast and a wing, and your choice of two homecooked Southern sides. The Neighborhood: Three locations University of Memphis, East Memphis and Germantown Walker Ave.

Moriah Road; Queens Court, Germantown; garibaldispizza. They offer handmade pizzas, fresh salads with house dressings, sandwiches and pastas with your choice of sauce, as well as an array of appetizers and desserts.

All the breads, doughs and sauces are prepared in-house daily. Made-from-scratch bread brushed with garlic butter is toasted just right and topped with the best meatballs around, homemade meat sauce and parmesan cheese. What's not to love? The Neighborhood: Crosstown Crosstown Concourse, Concourse Ave.

Why We Love It: Food connects people. Located in Crosstown Concourse, Global Café is an international food hall featuring immigrant cooks preparing and selling the dishes of their homelands. Owner Sabine Langer has brought together immigrants, who are talented cooks and are dedicated to preparing the foods of their home countries.

Currently, the featured countries are Mexico, Venezuela and Sudan. The Neighborhood: Five locations Downtown, East Memphis, Germantown, Bartlett and Southaven S. Front St. Mendenhall; N. Germantown Parkway, Bartlett; Forest Hill Irene Road, Germantown; Goodman Road East, Southaven; gusfriedchicken.

Memphians and tourists alike line up daily to enjoy this one-of-a-kind fried chicken. The fried chicken gets its spice from a secret recipe batter that the chicken is marinated in. The perfect accompaniment is a slice of Wonder white bread, but sides like slaw, beans and fries are also available.

Why We Love It: Highland Super Submarine Sandwich Shop is considered the best sandwich shop in town by many Memphians. Oh, and bring cash. This is a cash-only establishment.

Each order comes with a bag of chips. MEMPHIS DINING: The 30 best restaurants in Memphis in Soul food, seafood and so much more. The Neighborhood: 10 locations throughout the Greater Memphis area ; hueyburger.

This beloved Memphis burger restaurant chain is a Bluff City staple. This award-winning 6-ounce Certified Angus Beef burger comes with your choice of mayo, lettuce, tomato, mustard, pickle, onion, cheddar or Swiss cheese on a buttered, toasted sesame seed bun.

The Neighborhood: Two locations in East Memphis Just outside the I Loop and the Normal Station Neighborhood Park Ave. and Quince; lasdeliciasrestaurant.

From tacos to fajitas to enchiladas to tortas, this Mexican spot has all the favorites, served in a fun and casual atmosphere. Start with one of their tasty margaritas. The frozen margarita swirled with sangria is one-of-a-kind in Memphis. The grilled steak and chicken comes topped with bell peppers, onions, bacon and melted cheese.

Their tasty version is a tomato and chipotle flavored broth loaded with tortilla strips and shredded chicken all topped with cheese and avocado. The Neighborhood: Cordova Macon Road, Suite ; ; ledelightsmem. Why We Love It: If you are going to put a dish in the title of your restaurant, it better be good.

And at Le Delights , the Bahn Mi are some of the best in town. Banh Mi is a classic Vietnamese sandwich. Served on an airy and crunchy French baguette, the sandwich is stuffed with an ever-varying combination of meats, vegetables and sauces.

Each bite is salty, sweet, sour and spicy all at the same time. The Neighborhood: East Memphis S. White Station Road; ; mosaasianbistro. Why We Love It: Mosa Asian Bistro blends all the bold flavors and savory spices found in classic Thai, Chinese and Japanese cuisine.

Longtime Memphians will remember Pao from his popular — and much missed — Summer Avenue eatery, Formosa Chinese Restaurant. Service is fast-casual, and every dish is made to order. Handmade chicken dumplings are served in a flavorful wonton soup broth with Napa cabbage, carrots and fresh cilantro.

Crispy wonton strips and a dipping sauce available in mild, medium or spicy heat add the finishing touch. Why We Love It: Payne's Bar-B-Q is a family operation that has been in business since This place is the real-deal, and one of the few truly old-school barbecue joints in town.

The menu is as bare bones as the dining room, focusing only on the barbecue essentials. Pork shoulders are cooked low and slow over coals in a pit that is adjacent to the service counter.

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A little bit of flour and butter, garlic, lemon juice, and capers , and you've got a super savory supper. Say that three times fast. This cheap recipe leaves out the smoked pork or turkey, which is typical in the American South, and goes heavy on garlic for flavor.

This all-star easy dinner recipe will work long after corn has gone out of season. In the winter, just sub in shaved cauliflower or torn kale. This soup packs in all the ingredients that would make your doctor happy—lentils, sweet potatoes, leafy greens—but the fiery Thai green curry paste keeps things interesting.

This Haitian meal consists of sos pwa nwa, black bean sauce enriched with coconut milk, served alongside mayi moulen, a creamy cornmeal porridge flavored with garlic and herbs.

Nothing is cozier. This family-friendly weeknight dinner takes a cue from Japanese grilled chicken meatballs called tsukune as well as the glossy, sweet-and-sour sauce that comes with them. A classic Italian pesto , this is not. Spinach, cilantro, and miso come together for this uber-green sauce, which dresses, of course, springy ramen noodles.

In this brothy beans recipe, caramelizing fennel, shallots, and lemon builds a base layer that is sweet, tangy, and bright. Tinned sardines add protein and a briny flavor. A beloved Hong Kong dish with approximately one billion variations, this soup—which relies heavily on fridge and pantry staples—is meant to be a little sweet and a touch sharp.

Its silky texture comes from blended potatoes and broccoli stalks rather than heavy cream. Well, this is the salad version, with noodles in addition to pink radishes , orange carrots, purple cabbage, and green cucumbers. One head of cabbage goes a long way. This recipe, where wedges are bathed in turmeric-accented coconut milk until meltingly tender and sweet, uses just half of one to feed four.

The soul of this recipe comes from the ginger and tamari marinade that gives crispy tofu a sweet and savory glaze. We like to turn leftover tofu into tacos, for some Japanese-Mexican fusion. Toss roasted sweet potato wedges in a sweet and nutty tahini dressing for this quick vegetarian weeknight dinner.

And no, it will not break the bank. This budget meal is about turning leftover side dishes into something totally new. Nearly any roasted vegetable or cooked grain could be worked into a frittata using this method. This looks like something that took hours in a crockpot to make, but in reality, the black-eyed peas soak up the flavors of an onion- and tomato-based gravy in under 30 minutes.

Tuna salad deserves to be considered a dinner dish, not just a sandwich filling. Let the pan-fried chickpeas and red endive in this recipe convince you. Pan-crisped and glazed sweet potatoes.

With hearty, almost meaty lentils. And pistachios. Purchase lasagna noodles, mushrooms, mozzarella, and Parmesan. The rest of the ingredients for this cheap dinner recipe are already in your fridge or pantry.

One style of cheap meals: recipes chosen with their leftovers in mind , making two meals out of one. For example, these ground beef meatballs and their tomato sauce make for a great hoagie filling the next day. If you've already got miso in your fridge and don't want to spend on something new, you could use that in this stew recipe instead of gochujang.

It will be a whole different vibe, but a vibe nonetheless. Serve it with a poached egg and a slice of bread for a good cheap meal. Easy homemade tomato soup is an upgrade to the canned stuff, but we don't judge.

Try pouring the soup directly over the sliced sandwich for an irresistible comfort food. Consider this roast chicken your Sunday dinner.

And then your Monday lunch, too. You can turn the leftover meat into pulled chicken sandwiches or a chicken noodle salad. Do not underestimate the potential of the often underrated legume, the lentil, a key ingredient when it comes to filling but cheap meals.

Our creamy, almost Alfredo pasta -looking stovetop mac and cheese is about as easy as opening one of those little boxes of shells and powdered sauce —but a lot more delicious. Freeze half of these burgers to pull out during those times when you get the craving for fast food.

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Like Northern Thai Food Club and some of the other best restaurants in L. Sapp offers some no-frills seriously good Thai-style eats, but the jade noodles specifically are a cult favorite: a soupless bowl though you can also order it with soup filled with BBQ pork, roast duck, crab meat and thick green noodles that never seem to end.

Want a nice kick? Order it spicy. Without butter, the dish is entirely vegan. With or without, however, the zhengyalov hatz are light and delicious; each bite tastes like spring.

Drinks-wise, among other beverages, you can also order Armenian coffee, glass teapots filled with spiced and herbal tea and their housemade okroshka, a tangy yogurt drink packed to the brim with dill and cucumber. The fresh noodles get pulled to order and made before your very eyes, then slid into your choice of broth.

Pick your noodle bowl, then add à la carte tempura, eggs, meats and chilled accoutrements to build your perfect meal. Made with rich ghee instead of oil or margarine, the flaky Judeo-Spanish treats at this Sherman Oaks kosher takeout window are worth coming from out of the way.

Served with pickles, eggs, tomato pulp and red zhoug hot sauce , one order of boureka makes for a hearty meal for one or a lighter snack shared among two. The Shanghainese mini-chain with locations in Chinatown, Monterey Park and Rowland Heights is beloved for its pan-fried dumplings and its beef rolls, but the most prized option of them all is the xiaolongbao, or soup dumpling.

Where else can you eat some of L. Half market, half restaurant, the tiny shack serves steamed, grilled and deep-fried shellfish, salmon, squid and more, and you can always expect stellar quality it is owned by commercial fishermen, after all.

The iconic sandwich shop has been selling beautiful, meaty French dips at its current location since , where you can still snag the iconic roast beef served on a French roll dipped in au jus.

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We are excited for Slice Laguna Beach to be on this list. Owner Cary Redfearn has imported a 7,lb. pizza oven straight from Italy to create an elevated experience at his fast-quality pizza concept. With a special flour mix for crispy, light yet chewy dough and forty different ingredients for ultimate pizza customization, expect excellence.

Also expect new vegetarian specials every single day. Lastly, there is an eighteen tap, self-serve beer and wine wall where you pay for what you pour.

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