Best Soul Food in Memphis · Memphis, TN
The Four Way has served soul food in Memphis's Soulsville neighborhood since 1946, a gathering place where Martin Luther King Jr., Aretha Franklin, and Stax Records artists all broke bread during the civil-rights era. Fried chicken, catfish, turnip greens, and peach cobbler come plate-lunch style.
Still a community cornerstone, the Four Way pairs some of the best soul food in Memphis with a genuinely historic dining room — its walls a photo album of the city's Black cultural history.
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A Soulsville institution since 1946 whose turkey and dressing fed the neighborhood that gave the world Stax Records.
Yes — The Four Way is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Soul Food in Memphis, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best soul food in Memphis for 2025 for feeding Soulsville's musicians, ministers, and neighbors since 1946.
The Four Way is in Memphis, TN.
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