Not for the seizure prone, the club, with its illuminated dance floor, packs a criminal amount of fun and rope lights ; the disco play list will bring out the Donna Summer in anyone. Bubbly Paula runs the bar while her septuagenarian father, Robert Raiford, spins music. He knows where it is. Explore street view, find our points of interest and sign in to your Google account to save your map. The clientele is diverse, the couches comfy and the jukebox and pool tables inviting.
The absinthe drinks are a vivid sight, each with a small, flaming sugar cube. Make sure everyone in this party gets a cab home. Wake Up! The breads are baked daily, the jams made in-house, and the coffee is roasted locally every three days.
Lest We Forget a. But deep blues do still exist in Memphis. You just have to dig deep to find them. Discussions about Memphis barbecue, even among friends, can lead to fisticuffs. Stop at Payne's Lamar Avenue, on your way in from the airport. It's a former service station, cavernous and spare, an unintentional Zen exercise to focus you on the food. In Memphis, barbecue doesn't mean ribs; it means pork shoulder, pulled from the bone or chopped and served with hot sauce or mild, with a dollop of cole slaw on top.
The slaw is essential, as the perfect sandwich -- i. The meat is succulent and tender, with occasional crunchy bites that particularly burst with flavor; the mustardy slaw seeps into the tangy sauce. Don't worry; the sandwich isn't big enough to spoil dinner. As Elvis would assure us, the world does indeed look great from inside a '55 Cadillac.
He picks you up -- usually at the Peabody Hotel Union Avenue , although other arrangements may be made -- in his refurbished Caddy and shows you the opulence and poverty of the city and its famous recording studios: Sun, home to Howling Wolf and Elvis; Stax, where Booker T.
Pierson, above, might swing you by Daddy Mack's garage, where the guitarist slides out from under an auto to pick a few tunes be sure to tip him. In the entrepreneurial spirit of the city that brought you Holiday Inns and self-serve supermarkets, Mr.
Pierson also peddles his Memphis Mary, a bloody mary mix with barbecue sauce. Get you some. Glass walls invite onlookers to peer into rehearsals, even when no performances are scheduled. A few blocks away, the acclaimed African-American repertory company Hattiloo Theater recently cast the award-winning playwright Katori Hall as its artistic director. Head back downtown for a few lazy hours at the sprawling outdoor compound Loflin Yard. Backing up to the train tracks, the 1.
The vintage Winchester office building has recently been repurposed as the Hotel Napoleon Memphis with 58 crisp rooms. In addition to its pedestrian-friendly downtown location, the hotel houses a restaurant serving breakfast and dinner, and offers free coffee anytime in the lobby.
The Mississippi riverfront glass pyramid that last served as a basketball arena has been refashioned as an immersive Bass Pro Shop, complete with fish- and gator-filled ponds. Overlooking them and the indoor cypress swamp diorama is the rustic-themed, room Big Cypress Lodge. But your ability to be flexible will almost certainly be tested.
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