Weidmann's - 210 22nd Avenue Good Bar upstairs. Good Bar Downstairs. can eat full menu at both bars - Excellent food - steaks, fish, pasta. Casual upscale restaurant will be busy.

TaKrai Thai Food 6661 North Hills Drive - Our go to place for Thai food - no alcohol

Dobi's Ragin' Cajun - 4900 Poplar Springs Drive - Cajun food and best hamburger in Meridian - has a decent Bar

Mugshots - 5005 Highway 493 - Across street from Dobi's - Noisy Bar, Mugshots menu of burgers, sandwiches.

Rustler Steakhouse and Lounge - 5915 Old Highway 80 West - expensive steaks and bar.

Chunky Shoals Fish Camp - Old Highway 80 at Chunky River Bridge - Catfish, fried pickles, amber adult beverages - good catfish - they have a decent burger, steak and other stuff too.

Brickhouse Bar and Grill - 2206 Front Street around corner from Weidmann's Bar and grill stuff. If they are open there is probably a band playing and rednecks having a good time.

Aie's Taste of Thai - 1900 Front Street across from the train station. I have heard it is good but have not been there. see comments above about TaKrai.

Sake Sushi - 103 South Frontage Road - in shopping center behind Outback, Chick Fillet - good sushi, Hibachi

Mulligan's 308 Briarwood Road at briarwood Country Club - Not certain what nights they are open, but they are open to the public. Food is OK.

Hungry Heifer - 1310 14th street - Bar with bar food - close the Rush Hospital ER if you get in trouble, which you shouldn't because it's not rowdy.

La Pinata Mexican - 814 18 Avenue - tasty TexMex - our go to place. Bar with everything a gringo might want at a Mexican restaurant.

7 or 6 other Mexican places - all good but not La Pinata

No worthy Chinese food

Various juke joints and working man beer drinking establishments on back streets around town - I might go, but I wouldn't send you to any of them.

Couple of Truck Stops for all night dining with Good old boy truckers.

Three (4?) Waffle Houses

Buffalo Wildwings
Outback
Olive Garden
Applebees
Chili's
Dickey's BBQ
Squeeler's BBQ
McAlister's Deli
Cracker Barrel
Logan's
Penn's Catfish
Chick Fillet
Red Lobster
Bla Bla Bla

I am so sorry. I didn't mention we have 2 Sonics and the 2 best Popeye's stores in the entire Popeye's chain in Meridian. Two Taco Bell stores also, because sometimes you simply gotta have a Taco Bell #4 combo.

There is a Baskin Robins on North Hills for those nights when your sweetie craves a $5.00 ice cream cone.

This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 11:17 pm