2019 Annual Conference - Working in Harmony for LIFE
 
 
Dinning Out 

Walkable from the Peabody

Aldo’s Pizza Pies (pizza, salads) 2 min walk

The Arcade Restaurant (Breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, salads) 4 min drive

Automatic Slim’s

Bar Dog (bar food, hot dogs) 6 min walk

Blues City Café (favorites: sausage cheese plate, ribs, catfish) 3 min walk

Blue Monkey

Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar 5 min walk

Hard Rock Cafe

Huey’s (burgers, bar food) 1 min walk

Itta Bena (3rd Floor of BB Kings, contemporary Southern food) 3 min walk

King’s Palace Cafe

Kooky Canuck’s

Las Margarita’s

Local on Main

McEwen’s 4 min walk

Mesquite Chop House

Sage

Sleep Out Louie’s

South Main Market

Starbucks 6 min walk

TGI Friday’s

The Majestic Grille (1913 movie house converted to a restaurant) 2 min walk

Other Restaurant Suggestions Within a Short Ride

Downtown

 
Blue Plate Café (Breakfast)
 
  
Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken (soul food, fried chicken) 2 min drive
 
 
Little Tea Shop
 
 
 
 
Sunrise (breakfast)
 
Trolley Stop Market (pizza, plate lunches, sandwiches, burgers)

Midtown: Cooper-Young & Overton Square Districts (10 min drive)

Babalu (upscale tapas and tacos)

Bari

Bayou

Bhan Thai

Blue Monkey

Bosco’s

Belly Acres (Burgers)

Café 1912

Elwood Shells

LBOE (bar food and burgers)

Los Camales (Mexican)

Memphis Pizza Café (pizza, subs, salads)

Molly’s

Salt Water Crab

Second Line (Southern Creole – catfish, gumbo, poboys)

Side Street Grill

Soul Fish (soul food and catfish)

Sweet Grass

The Beauty Shop

Tsunami

University of Memphis/Poplar/Highland

Brother Juniper’s (breakfast)

BBQ

Bar-B-Q Shop (favorites: pork sandwich on Texas toast) 10 min drive

Blues City Café (favorites: sausage cheese plate, ribs (wet not dry), catfish) 3 min walk

Central BBQ (favorites: BBQ nachos, sausage cheese plate, BBQ bologna) 2 min drive

Corky’s (favorites: onion loaf, BBQ sandwich, ½ chicken) 22 min drive

Cozy Corner

Neely’s Interstate BBQ

One & Only BBQ

Payne’s

The Rendezvous

Upscale Dining

Catherine & Mary’s

Chez Philippe located in the Peabody Hotel

Felicia Suzanne’s 3 min drive

Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar 5 min walk

Restaurant Iris

Paulette’s

Texas de Brazil

The Gray Canary

The Majestic Grille (1913 movie house converted to a restaurant) 2 min walk

Delicious Dives

99 cent Soul Food Express

Alcenia’s

Café Eclectic

Carolina Watershed

Dyer’s Burgers

Ernestine & Hazel’s

Flying Fish

Front Street Deli

Maciel’s

Miss Polly’s

Pontotoc Lounge

South Main Sushi

The Office

Uncle Lou’s

Westy’s

Wild Bill’s

Sweet Tooth

17 Berkshire (coffee, tarts, cakes) 10 min drive

A. Schwab (milkshakes)

Bluff City Coffee and Bakery (also serves Breakfast and Lunch) 4 min drive

Cheesecake Corner
 
 
Insomnia Cookies
 

Muddy’s Bake Shop (cupcakes, pies, cookies, coffee) 12 min drive

Sweet Noshings (candy store, ice cream, fudge) 10 min drive

Where to Drink

Flying Saucer (German, recommend the soft pretzels with cheese dip) 3 min walk

 

Lafayette’s Music Room (live music every night) 10 min drive

Loflin Yard (yard games, lawn chairs, bon fires) 5 min drive

Old Dominick Distillery (tours, gift shop, bar) 2 min drive

Railgarten (yard games, lawn chairs, bon fires) 12 min drive

Rec Room (pool, pizza, beer, classic arcade games) 15 min drive

Silky O’Sullivan’s (share a diver) 3 min walk to Beale Street

 
Soul & Spirits Brewery

Wiseacre Brewing Co. (taproom and tours) 16 min drive

History

Bass Pro Shop at the Pyramid

Beale Street

 

Graceland

 

Mud Island River Park

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

Rock ‘n Soul Museum

Stax Museum

Sun Studio

The Peabody Ducks

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Nature

Big River Crossing

Memphis Zoo

Mud Island River Park

Shelby Farms

Shopping

Crosstown Concourse

Overton Square

Tanger Outlet Stores 22 min drive

Art, Culture

Brooks Museum of Art

Downtown Memphis Mural Guide

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Ornamental Metal Museum

South Main Arts District

The Orpheum

Music

Alfred’s – Beale Street

BB Kings Blues Club – Beale Street

Beale Street

Beale Street Tap Room - Dowtown

Hard Rock Café – Beale Street

Lafayette’s Music Room – Overton Square

Levitt Shell – Overton Park

Minglewood Hall - Midtown
 

Rum Boogie Café – Beale Street

Tin Roof – Beale Street

Family Fun

Bass Pro Shop at the Pyramid

Children’s Museum of Memphis

Fire Museum of Memphis

Memphis Escape Rooms

Memphis Zoo

Overton Square

The Peabody Ducks

Pink Palace Museum

Gambling

Southland Gaming & Racing (West Memphis, AR)
 
Tunica Casinos (Tunica, MS)

Sports

Memphis Tigers Football (10/19 vs Tulane Green Wave)

Memphis 901 FC (10/19 vs Louisville City FC)

October Events in Memphis

Cooper-Young Regional Beerfest Oct 19

 

Zoo Boo Oct 18 – 20, 25-27

RiverArts Fest Oct 26 - 27