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Drink

Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

Dive bars are the pillars of any community worth living in.

The Best Dive Bars in Memphis

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Turns out there may be a wrong way to drink a Bloody Mary: avoid tasteless V8-like mixes and half-hearted vodka pours at these nine Memphis establishments that go the extra mile for the ultimate hangover-killing cocktail.

The 9 Best Bloody Marys in Memphis

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Sandwiches are basically the perfect food.

The 12 Best Sandwich Shops in Memphis

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Lifestyle

Every major city has its own quirks and attitudes: sometimes it’s a certain way of doing things that makes no sense to outsiders, and other times it’s something specific about the town’s landscape, weather, or architecture.

12 Things That Happen #OnlyInMemphis

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Happy hour: whether at the bar, on the patio, at a big table surrounded by 10 friends when you're drinking specialty cocktails, wines by the glass, or pints (or liters!) of beer, you can't go wrong.

12 Must-Hit Happy Hours in Memphis

Things You Didn't Know About

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Beale Street is the most popular tourist attraction in the state of Tennessee, so you’d think there would be no stones unturned about the street known for blues, rock ‘n’ roll, Southern food, and nightlife.

17 Things You Didn’t Know About Beale Street

Second only to barbecue as the most well-known of Bluff City cuisines, Southern-style soul food is all about succulent sides like greens, macaroni & cheese, yams, biscuits, and cornbread.

The 11 Best Places for Fried Chicken in Memphis

Memphis is the greatest city in the world, but it's not like we need validation.

Memphis Is No. 1 at These 10 Things. Suck It, Every Other City.

With a combination of dependable, solidly delicious burger joints, greasy dive-bar burgers, and a crop of shiny new gourmet burger restaurants, Memphis has a pretty wide range of meat patties.

We Narrowed Down the Best Burgers in Memphis

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If you live in Memphis, chances are someone you know is getting ready to come visit or even move here.

21 Things You Have To Explain to Out-of-Towners About Memphis

Derrick Yuen

When patronizing the bars of Memphis, there's a fine line between having a reasonably good time and waking up cradling a sandwich next to a stranger.

Memphis' 13 Bad Decision Bars

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The average person likely only thinks of Memphis food in terms of barbecue (and with good reason), but Memphians do not live by pork ribs alone.