Itta Bena

The 21 Best Restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee | Eater Nashville

"Located just above B.B. King’s Blues Club, where the music will thump so loud it’s spill through the floor, Itta Bena acts as an upscale Southern restaurant with its own easygoing live music most nights. Start with the cheese Bayou crab dip stuffed with Cajun seasoning and lump crab and share a plate of crisp wedge salad with smoked bacon strips. The she-crab soup offers more lump crab in a rich, sherry cream tinted with chives and red pepper flakes. Shrimp and grits are excellent, with big U-10 shrimp sitting atop a bed of smoked gouda grits. For dessert, get the ice cream-topped chocolate brownie." - Jackie Gutierrez-Jones