Blues City Cafe Restaurant Review:
Blues City Café offers the holy trinity of Memphis kitsch: barbecue, blues and beer. The tourist-friendly café sits on world-famous Beale Street and serves up the food that put Memphis on the map --- slow-cooked, tangy ribs. But you might want to save room for one of Blues City’s famous oven-broiled steaks, served au jus with generous sides, a tradition left from the restaurant’s earlier...
This club across the street from B.B. King's Blues Club takes up two old storefronts, with live blues wailing in one room (called the Band Box) and an excellent, casual restaurant serving steaks, tamales, and barbecue in the other. If you're looking to tank up on good food before a night of crawling the clubs along Beale Street, this is the best place to do it.
Good eats, live blues, and plenty of Southern atmosphere and charm.:
The Scene:
At the corner of Second and Beale, facing B.B. King's Blues Club, sits the faux Delta shack that was formerly a Doe's Eat Place. The late, great blues guitarist Albert...