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. [1]

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History

Ballery Tyrone Bully built the restaurant with his father; both of them are masons. [2] [3] The restaurant opened in 1982. [3] [4] It originally opened as a snack shop serving sandwiches to local factory workers. [2]

The restaurant focuses on Southern cuisine and soul food staples such as chitterlings, neckbones, oxtails, macaroni and cheese, and greens. [1] [5] The Beard Foundation said "This is back-of-the-range cooking without peer. " [2] The 2021 Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail called the food "some soul food hall-of-fame-style cooking". [5]

Recognition

In 2016 the restaurant was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation. [2] [6]

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.

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