Bully's Restaurant
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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.{{Cite web |date=2014-05-16 |title=Bully's Restaurant |url=https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/bullys-restaurant/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Southern Foodways Alliance |language=en-US}}
History
Ballery Tyrone Bully built the restaurant with his father; both of them are masons.{{Cite web |title=Awards Watch: Meet the 2016 America's Classics {{!}} James Beard Foundation |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/awards-watch-introducing-2016-americas-classics |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=www.jamesbeard.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-05-16 |title=Ballery Tyrone Bully |url=https://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/ballery-tyrone-bully/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Southern Foodways Alliance |language=en-US}} The restaurant opened in 1982.{{Cite web |last=DiRienzo |first=Daniella |date=2021-08-16 |title=A Tiny Hole-In-The-Wall, Bully's Restaurant In Mississippi Is Known Nationwide For Its Down-Home Soul Food |url=https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/mississippi/bullys-restaurant-known-nationwide-for-soul-food-ms/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=OnlyInYourState |language=en-US}} It originally opened as a snack shop serving sandwiches to local factory workers.
Menu
The restaurant focuses on Southern cuisine and soul food staples such as chitterlings, neckbones, oxtails, macaroni and cheese, and greens.{{Cite book |last=Douglas |first=Deborah D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1153664052 |title=Moon U.S. civil rights trail : a traveler's guide to the people, places, and events that made the movement |date=2021 |others=Bree Newsome Bass, Avalon Travel |isbn=978-1-64049-915-7 |edition= |location=Berkeley, CA |pages=196, 211 |oclc=1153664052}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Experience the Remarkable Spirit of Jackson, Mississippi |url=https://www.southernliving.com/travel/mississippi/jackson-ms |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Southern Living |language=en}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite web |title=7 must-visit restaurants for superb Southern cuisine |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-travel-southern-food-restaurants-united-states-list-20211202-nmxvlntnnba3ncahnyffyzqz74-list.html |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Chicago Tribune|date=2 December 2021|url-access=subscription}}
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Category:Soul food restaurants in the United States
Category:Restaurants in Mississippi