Can't Miss in Jackson Ms?

E&Ls BBQ

It’s a daytime spot.

Great BBQ
Hood AF

I go every time I’m in Jackson.

Oh also, they’re gonna ask if you want sauce on fries, you do.

Char
Amerigo

Lou's Full-Serv is a local gem that's really underrated and often overlooked

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Also on the casual side is Saltine which is usually a fun atmosphere with good beer, oysters, etc

For more formal fare I recommend CAET, Koestler Prime, The Manship and Ely's

I don't think you can go wrong with any of those

Pig and Pint BBQ

shapleys is perhaps one of the worst “nice” steakhouses my wife and I have ever visited. We had a super time because we laughed so hard at the awful service and terrible food. The best part of the meal was leaving to eat dessert elsewhere

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Grew up in Jackson and had many meals at the Green Derby as a kid. Also ate at Dennerys

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Grew up po -- went to GD maybe 2-3 times. It was where we went if special relatives visited

My family's idea of a big night out was Piccason/Morrisilly

Think I went to Dennery's once.

Remember Lefleur's? It was next to an upscale toy store I always wanted to go to but never did...

Remember "Fisherman's Wharf" or something like that on Hwy 80? Never went there, but I remember the big fish sign. Never went to Creshale's either -- still open?

Was in downtown Jxn a few years ago. Half the buildings on Capitol St are boarded up... Elite Cafe and Martin's (never went to either) were still open. I think Primo's closed though.

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and the chicken place that looked like a big barn near the zoo.

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Hmmm... Don't recall it. Was this before the '80s? Maybe before my time. That's such a horrific neighborhood now...

Wish Meridian Dog would come back. Love his stories about old Jackson.

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Royal

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Was Elite the newly-recreated one whose chef/owner suddenly died a year or so ago? At the time, my Jackson-bred Spidey Sense told me "that's not going to be good at all".

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Kafka

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Growing up in J-Town, we was all po'... it's just that we never know it. Creshale's was still there a few years ago; I plan to check it out in a few days.

The chicken place was early to mid 70s. Went to Lafleurs and the old Primos a bunch. I've been to the new Primos on Lakeland a couple of times in the last 10 years. Don't know if it is still there, but I like those brownies a lot. Old Tyme deli is the place I miss the most. The bread was incredible.

Shout out to the old Beer Barn on Lakeland. Went through the drive thru when I was 14, with a couple of 15 year olds and all got a 32 oz beer. The food old days.