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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