Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Memphis from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Memphis
Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s in Downtown and Porch and Parlor in Overton Square hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. Acre in East Memphis keeps an exceptional wine program with an extensive wine list.
Chez Philippe in Downtown is Memphis' only Forbes Four-Star restaurant, and the Forbes award is dated 2026. The cuisine is inventive and French, with Southern influences, and the setting is an opulent historic hotel. The formats are a tasting menu, prix fixe, and a la carte. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list, and the restaurant holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026.
Amelia Gene’s in Downtown serves contemporary American fine dining in a restored historic ironworks and machine shop. Thursday tasting menus join prix fixe and a la carte service, and a cheese cart is part of the meal. The wine list rotates. The program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails, and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence is dated 2026.
Acre in East Memphis serves modern American fine dining a la carte. The room is residential in style, and the cooking is chef-driven. In 2025 the restaurant received a James Beard Award Semi Finalist recognition for Best Chef: Southeast, naming Andrew Adams and Wally Joe. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
Porch and Parlor in Overton Square is a Southern steakhouse. Premium Wagyu beef and a table-side marrow preparation are served a la carte, in Belle Époque-inspired decor. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. A Wine Spectator Award of Excellence is dated 2026.
Tasting menus appear at Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s in Downtown and at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Brookhaven Circle. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s also serve prix fixe.
Chez Philippe in Downtown runs a tasting menu beside prix fixe and a la carte. The cooking is inventive French cuisine with Southern influences, in an opulent historic hotel. The restaurant is Memphis' only Forbes Four-Star restaurant, with the Forbes award dated 2026. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list.
Amelia Gene’s in Downtown keeps Thursday tasting menus in a restored historic ironworks and machine shop. Contemporary American fine dining is also served prix fixe and a la carte, with a cheese cart. The wine list rotates under a sommelier-led program that is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Brookhaven Circle offers a tasting menu along with small plates and a la carte. Contemporary Italian cuisine with Southern influences includes house-made pastas, served in an intimate multi-room setting. The wine program has an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and a beer program. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate dated 2025.
Hog & Hominy in Northeast Memphis holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand dated 2025, and Felicia Suzanne's in South Main, The Lobbyist in South Main, and Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Brookhaven Circle hold a Michelin Plate dated 2025. Plate and Bib Gourmand awards are separate from Michelin stars.
Hog & Hominy in Northeast Memphis serves wood-fired pizzas and small plates using Italian techniques and Southern ingredients. The setting is casual. Formats are small plates and a la carte. Craft cocktails are served. The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand dated 2025.
Felicia Suzanne's in South Main serves elevated Southern American cooking a la carte. Chef Felicia Suzanne uses seasonal ingredients and works from Southern traditions in a striking dining room. The wine program has craft cocktails. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate dated 2025.
The Lobbyist in South Main serves modern American fusion a la carte from a historic hotel lobby. The menu blends global flavors with local seasonal ingredients from nearby farms. The wine program has craft cocktails. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate dated 2025 and a James Beard Award Semi Finalist recognition dated 2026.
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Brookhaven Circle holds a Michelin Plate dated 2025. House-made pastas and small plates are served as contemporary Italian cuisine with Southern influences, in an intimate multi-room setting. Formats are a tasting menu, small plates, and a la carte. The wine program has an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and a beer program.
Our guide lists zero Michelin-starred restaurants in Memphis, and that restaurant count is citywide. The citywide total of Michelin stars in our guide is also zero, and a Michelin Plate or a Bib Gourmand is not a Michelin star.
Chez Philippe in Downtown, Amelia Gene’s in Downtown, and Porch and Parlor in Overton Square hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. The citywide count of Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence in our guide is 8. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s have exceptional wine programs, and Porch and Parlor has a wine list. Those three restaurants keep an extensive wine list.
Tasting menus are at Chez Philippe in Downtown, Amelia Gene’s in Downtown, and Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Brookhaven Circle. Chez Philippe also serves prix fixe and a la carte, and the cooking is inventive French cuisine with Southern influences. Amelia Gene’s also serves prix fixe and a la carte, including Thursday tasting menus, with a cheese cart. Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen also serves small plates and a la carte, with house-made pastas.
Among the venues we feature, Downtown, East Memphis, Poplar Avenue, and Sanderlin Centre have restaurants with exceptional wine programs. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s are in Downtown, Acre is in East Memphis, Ronnie Grisanti's is in Poplar Avenue, and Napa Café is in Sanderlin Centre. Each of those five restaurants keeps an extensive wine list, and Amelia Gene’s is sommelier-led with a rotating wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient on Memphis's mid-South dining circuit, Hog & Hominy lands at the intersection of Italian-American cooking and Deep South instinct. The double-dollar price point puts it in accessible territory for the quality on offer, and its Brookhaven address places it away from the tourist-facing Beale Street corridor, closer to where Memphians actually eat.
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Acre belongs to the Memphis dining conversation where ingredient sourcing, regional memory, and contemporary technique meet without turning Southern cooking into museum work. Its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist recognition for Best Chef: Southeast, naming Andrew Adams and Wally Joe, places it in a serious regional frame rather than a purely local one.
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Amelia Gene’s brings Contemporary American cooking into Memphis, a city where farm-to-table language has to compete with barbecue, soul food, and Delta memory. The interest here is not a single chef mythology or trophy list, but how a modern kitchen in Memphis can work with seasonality, local appetite, and a dining public increasingly willing to treat the city as more than a comfort-food capital.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Italian-American kitchen in East Memphis, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen operates where Southern produce traditions and Italian-American cooking techniques share the same table. The $$$ price tier places it among Memphis's serious-dinner options, and its 2025 Michelin recognition confirms it as part of the city's small cohort of nationally acknowledged restaurants.
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Chez Philippe occupies the grand dining room of the historic Peabody Memphis hotel on Union Avenue, holding a four-star rating that places it in the upper tier of formal dining in the Mid-South. The room draws a consistent crowd of locals and visiting names, making it the reference point for occasion dining in a city better known for barbecue and soul food.
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Cozy Corner has anchored Memphis barbecue culture from its address on North Parkway for decades, drawing locals and serious pork pilgrims alike to a counter-service format that prioritizes smoke and time over theatre. The restaurant sits within a barbecue tradition that values the whole animal and slow-fire craft, placing it in a different register from the city's hot-chicken wave. For anyone mapping Memphis through its food, this address is a fixed point.
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Felicia Suzanne's occupies a corner of South Main that Memphis's restaurant scene has claimed as its own over the past decade. Holding a Michelin Plate recognition in 2025, the $$$ American kitchen on 383 S Main St sits in the tier where regional Southern cooking meets deliberate technique, a reference point for the neighbourhood rather than simply a destination within it.
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Good Fortune Co. occupies a South Main Arts District address in Memphis, operating at an intersection of craft cocktail technique and neighborhood bar culture that the city has been slowly building toward. The program sits within a broader Southern shift away from novelty-driven drinks toward a more considered, ingredient-led approach. For Memphis, that shift is still earning its footing, and this address is part of that conversation.
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The format is stripped-back: hot fried chicken, and a place firmly inside Memphis's serious food conversation.
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The menu is structured around escalating heat levels, making the format itself the central decision every diner faces. Open seven days a week from 11am, with extended hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana on Poplar Avenue brings a focused Mexican deli format to East Memphis, a part of the city where that culinary tradition has little direct competition. The operation sits in a strip-mall setting that belies the seriousness of its offer, drawing a loyal local following that crosses neighborhood lines. For Memphis diners accustomed to barbecue-dominated options, it represents a genuinely different register of casual eating.
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On Madison Avenue in Memphis's Midtown, Porch and Parlor occupies a stretch where neighborhood habit and culinary ambition tend to overlap. The name signals something deliberate about pace and setting: a place built for lingering rather than table-turning. For visitors tracing Memphis's evolving dining scene beyond Beale Street, it warrants attention.
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The Lobbyist holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and occupies a notable position in Memphis's evolving fine-dining scene. Located at 272 S Main St in the South Main Arts District, this fusion restaurant sits at the $$$ price tier, placing it among the city's handful of formally recognized dining rooms. Plan ahead: recognition at this level in a mid-sized American city tends to compress reservation availability quickly.
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On the corner of South Main in Memphis's most walkable arts district, Aldo's Pizza Pies occupies a slice of the city's casual dining scene that sits apart from the barbecue-and-hot-chicken circuit. Compared to the table-service Italian formats found at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen or Amerigo, Aldo's operates at a more accessible register, anchored to the neighbourhood rather than destination dining.
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Amerigo occupies a long-running position in East Memphis dining, drawing a neighborhood crowd to its Ridgeway Road address for Italian-American cooking in a setting that reads as settled and unhurried. The restaurant fits a tier of mid-city dining rooms where the menu does the talking and the room rewards regulars. It sits comfortably alongside spots like Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in Memphis's broader Italian-leaning dining circuit.
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On Beale Street, B.B. King's Blues Club occupies a central position in Memphis's live music identity, drawing both locals and visitors into an evening built around Southern food and amplified blues. The room runs loud and social from early evening onward, placing it firmly in the tradition of Beale Street entertainment venues where the music and the meal are inseparable. It is the kind of room where the set list matters as much as what arrives at the table.
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On Madison Avenue in Memphis's Midtown district, Babalu Tacos & Tapas occupies a position that few casual dining concepts manage: a neighborhood anchor with genuine crossover appeal. The menu draws on Latin-influenced small plates and tacos in a format that rewards sharing, making it a consistent stop for locals and visitors working through the city's dining options. It sits in a competitive mid-range tier alongside spots like Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen and Belle Meade Social.
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Belle Meade Social sits at 518 Perkins Extended in the established Belle Meade corridor of Memphis, operating in a city where the social dining format has carved a distinct niche between casual neighborhood spots and formal fine dining.
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Blues City Cafe sits at 138 Beale Street, the address that puts it inside Memphis's most historically loaded entertainment corridor. The room draws a loyal crowd that returns not for novelty but for consistency: the ribs, the live blues, and the particular atmosphere that Beale Street produces on a Friday night when the street fills and the music carries through open doors.
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Brooklyn Bridge sits on Kirby Pkwy in East Memphis, positioned within a suburban commercial corridor that has quietly become one of the city's more consistent dining destinations. Diners exploring Memphis beyond the Beale Street circuit will find it worth a closer look alongside the city's broader restaurant scene.
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Brother Juniper's sits on Walker Avenue in Memphis's Midtown corridor, occupying a position in the city's breakfast and brunch conversation that regulars treat as settled. The room draws a cross-section of the neighborhood, students, families, weekend returners, and the kitchen operates with the unhurried focus of a place that has nothing left to prove. It is a counter-service institution in a city that takes its morning meal seriously.
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On Cooper Street in Memphis's Midtown neighborhood, Cafe 1912 occupies a corner of the city's dining scene where neighborhood familiarity meets considered cooking. The address alone, in a stretch defined by independent operators and a loyal local clientele, signals what kind of restaurant this is: rooted, unhurried, and less interested in fanfare than in feeding people well. For visitors working through Memphis beyond the barbecue circuit, it warrants attention.
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Cafe Med sits along Kirby Parkway in Germantown, a suburb that has quietly developed one of greater Memphis's more consistent dining corridors. The Mediterranean name signals a menu orientation toward the olive oil and herb traditions of the southern European coast, placing it in a segment of Memphis dining that runs leaner on red sauce and heavier on grilled proteins and vegetable-forward preparations. Booking details and current hours are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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ARRIVE Memphis occupies a converted industrial building on South Main Street in Memphis's Arts District, earning a Michelin 1 Key recognition in 2024. Its 62 rooms balance weathered antique surfaces with Victorian-inspired wallpaper, while an on-site bar, restaurant, cocktail lounge, coffee roaster, and bakery form a coherent neighbourhood hub priced from $475 per night.
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The Guest House at Graceland brings 450 rooms to Elvis Presley Boulevard, positioning itself as the only hotel directly tied to the Graceland estate in Memphis. It operates in a category of its own among Memphis hotels: equal parts music heritage destination and full-service resort, with dining, entertainment, and event programming built around the world's most visited private home.
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A MICHELIN Selected hotel on Madison Avenue in downtown Memphis, Hu. Hotel occupies a carefully restored historic building that places it in the smaller, design-led tier of the city's accommodation market. Its central address puts Beale Street, the Memphis riverfront, and the broader music district within walking range, making it a practical and considered base for the city.
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A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a century-old train depot on Memphis's South Main arts corridor, The Central Station Memphis translates the city's rail heritage into a property with genuine architectural scale. The building's preserved bones, vaulted ceilings, platform-era ironwork, and a working clock tower, set the physical terms before any room category or food-and-beverage program enters the picture.
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A Memphis landmark since 1925, The Peabody Memphis holds a firm place in the city's civic identity, known as much for its twice-daily Duck March through the grand lobby as for afternoon tea at Chez Philippe and rooftop gatherings that draw locals and visitors in equal measure.
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SOB Downtown occupies a Main Street address in Memphis's South Main Arts District, placing it within easy reach of the city's most concentrated stretch of independent bars and restaurants. The space draws on the neighbourhood's long-running mix of creative tenants and occasion-worthy nights out, making it a reliable anchor for celebrations that want a downtown address without the tourist-strip formula.
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Alex's Tavern on Jackson Avenue occupies a corner of North Memphis that hasn't been smoothed over for outside consumption. The bar draws a neighborhood crowd that spans decades of regulars, operating as a working-class institution rather than a destination concept. For those tracing Memphis drinking culture beyond Beale Street, it functions as primary source material.
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BAR HUSTLE sits on South Main in Memphis, a corridor where hotel bars, music traffic, and late-night restaurant energy overlap. With limited public detail on awards, pricing, reservations, or signature drinks, the smarter reading is contextual: treat it as a downtown bar stop to assess by room feel, bartender interaction, and the night’s pace rather than by trophy data.
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Bardog Tavern on Monroe Avenue is one of downtown Memphis's most dependable neighbourhood bars, positioned squarely in the tradition of the American tavern as community anchor. Its address puts it within the city's historic core, where the line between dive bar and gathering place blurs into something more honest than either label suggests. For visitors looking to read Memphis at street level, it earns its place on the itinerary.
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On Madison Avenue in Midtown Memphis, Bayou brings a Gulf Coast drinking sensibility to a city more often associated with whiskey and beer. The bar occupies a niche that sits between neighborhood local and dedicated cocktail destination, drawing a crowd that knows the difference between the two. It's a useful reference point for understanding how Memphis's bar culture is quietly broadening its range.
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On Madison Avenue in downtown Memphis, Brinsons occupies a stretch of the city where the older hospitality grain of the neighbourhood still shows through. The address places it within walking distance of the courthouse district and the broader Beale Street corridor, positioning it as a downtown option for locals and visitors navigating Memphis on foot.
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Few addresses in the American South carry as much barbecue authority as Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous, tucked into a downtown Memphis alley off Second Street. Where most rib joints trade on smoke, the Rendezvous built its reputation on dry rub and charcoal, a method so regionally specific it functions as a local culinary benchmark. The alley approach alone signals you're entering Memphis barbecue tradition rather than a restaurant in the conventional sense.
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Cocozza American Italian brings Italian-American cooking to Harbor Town Square, one of Memphis's more deliberately composed residential districts. The setting rewards the kind of evening where the room itself is part of the meal, with a neighborhood feel that separates it from downtown's louder dining corridor. For Memphis, it occupies a quieter, more residential tier of the dining scene.
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A South Main anchor since its days as a bordello and soul food kitchen, Earnestine & Hazel's is the kind of bar Memphis keeps for itself. The jukebox runs deep, the Soul Burger has its own mythology, and the upstairs rooms carry the weight of the building's storied past. This is where the city drinks when it isn't performing for visitors.
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Global Café occupies a corner of Memphis's Overton Square-adjacent Concourse, where the city's appetite for eclectic, internationally inflected dining sits comfortably alongside its barbecue identity. The café operates in a register that prioritises atmosphere and approachability over ceremony, making it a reliable stop for the neighbourhood's mixed crowd of regulars and curious visitors. Details on current hours and booking are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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Hi Tone occupies a corner of Midtown Memphis at 282-284 N Cleveland St, sitting inside a city where live music and late-night drinking have long been inseparable. The venue draws a cross-section of Memphis regulars who treat the neighborhood bar format as a serious proposition rather than an afterthought. It belongs to a tier of local institutions that persist on reputation and atmosphere rather than awards cycles.
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On Spottswood Avenue in East Memphis, Mulan Asian Bistro East occupies a stretch of the city where neighbourhood dining runs deep and repeat customers define the room. The format sits in a tier of Asian-influenced bistro dining that Memphis has quietly developed alongside its barbecue identity. Practical to book and worth planning around, it reads as a reliable anchor in that part of the city.
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Old Dominick Distillery occupies a restored 19th-century warehouse on South Front Street, bringing Memphis whiskey production back to its pre-Prohibition roots. The distillery floor, tasting room, and event spaces sit within the same building, making it one of the few places in the city where you can watch spirits being made and drink them in the same visit. It anchors the downtown riverfront drinking circuit alongside the city's broader bar culture.
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Rock House Live Midtown sits on Poplar Avenue in one of Memphis's most musically and culturally layered corridors. The venue operates at the intersection of live performance and hospitality that has defined Midtown's identity for decades. For visitors already tracking Memphis's bar and live music scene, it earns a place in the same conversation as the neighbourhood's longer-established rooms.
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On Madison Avenue in Midtown Memphis, Tamboli's Pasta & Pizza occupies a stretch of the city where Italian-American comfort cooking has held ground against the barbecue-heavy dining identity that defines the region. The address places it squarely in a walkable neighbourhood with enough residential density to support a dual-tempo operation, relaxed at lunch, more deliberate at dinner.
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Wang's Mandarin House on Park Avenue has been a fixture of Memphis Chinese dining for decades, occupying a residential corridor where neighborhood loyalty runs deep. The room operates on a scale that rewards regulars over first-timers, and the menu covers the broad range of American-Chinese and Mandarin staples that defined suburban Chinese dining across the mid-South. Booking details are best confirmed directly with the restaurant.
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On South B.B. King Boulevard, WISEACRE Brewing Company HQ anchors Memphis's craft beer scene with a roster of sessionable lagers and hop-forward ales brewed for the Southern climate. The taproom draws a loyal local crowd that returns for consistent quality and the kind of unpretentious atmosphere that fits the neighbourhood. For visitors, it offers a grounded counterpoint to the city's bar and barbecue circuit.
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