The Four Way Restaurant will introduce a new item beginning March 10th during Memphis Black Restaurant Week. And I can’t wait.
Get ready for the “Soul Bowl.”
“A lot of people have different bowls at certain restaurants,” says The Four Way owner Patrice Bates Thompson. “Our bowl is going to be cornbread and you’re going to have a hole where you’re going to put in sides. Mine would be mac [and cheese], yams, and cabbage. Inside of a bowl made out of cornbread.”
Sides can be “anything you want.”
But, Thompson says, “I typically don’t like my food to touch. You can’t be that person. Because the sides are going to go in the center of hot cornbread. And they’re going to sit there together.”
The idea of the juice from the sides soaking into the cornbread is driving me crazy. I can already taste it. I’m imagining all the different side items inside of that cornbread bowl, which I also can’t wait to devour.
Thompson would like to leave the “Soul Bowl” on the menu. “I hope we can. I hope people love it and we can. That’s my goal. I don’t want it to be a temporary thing.”
Check it out during Memphis Black Restaurant Week and spread the word.
According its website, Memphis Black Restaurant Week, which will be held March 6th through 12th, will feature more than 25 Black-owned restaurants. The event is “an opportunity for Black-owned restaurants to offer dining deals to bring in new customers and raise awareness. It allows the country to support minority owned eateries.”
The Four Way Restaurant is at 998 Mississippi Boulevard; (901) 507-1519.
