Bully's Restaurant

Bully's Restaurant is a restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2016 it was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation. The restaurant is located on Livingston Road in Jackson, Mississippi.

History

Ballery Tyrone Bully built the restaurant with his father; both of them are masons. The restaurant opened in 1982. It originally opened as a snack shop serving sandwiches to local factory workers.

The restaurant focuses on Southern cuisine and soul food staples such as chitterlings, neckbones, oxtails, macaroni and cheese, and greens. The Beard Foundation said "This is back-of-the-range cooking without peer. " The 2021 Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail called the food "some soul food hall-of-fame-style cooking".

Recognition

In 2016 the restaurant was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Bully's Restaurant". Southern Foodways Alliance. May 16, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Awards Watch: Meet the 2016 America's Classics | James Beard Foundation". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Ballery Tyrone Bully". Southern Foodways Alliance. May 16, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  4. ↑ DiRienzo, Daniella (August 16, 2021). "A Tiny Hole-In-The-Wall, Bully's Restaurant In Mississippi Is Known Nationwide For Its Down-Home Soul Food". OnlyInYourState. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Douglas, Deborah D. (2021). Moon U.S. civil rights trail : a traveler's guide to the people, places, and events that made the movement. Bree Newsome Bass, Avalon Travel. Berkeley, CA. pp. 196, 211. ISBN 978-1-64049-915-7. OCLC 1153664052.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ "Experience the Remarkable Spirit of Jackson, Mississippi". Southern Living. Retrieved March 6, 2023.

Further reading

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