Bully's Restaurant


Bully's Restaurant is a restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2016 it was named one of List of [James Beard America's Classics|America's Classics] by the James Beard Foundation. The restaurant is located on Livingston Road in Jackson, Mississippi.

History

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

Menu

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

Recognition

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