Confession: I love side dishes. A good side dish is at least as thrilling to me as an excellent entrée. Luckily, the rest of the Eat Jackson team understands this love, so we’re doing a series on some of the best side dishes local Jackson restaurants have to offer. (Yes, I am super excited to [...]
This time of year, your schedule gets busy. That whole end-of-school-year schedule sets in, with graduations, music and dance recitals, baseball games, awards days, school programs, exams, half-days… with so much vying for your attention, make mealtime stress-free with these convenient and tasty take-out ideas from local restaurants in the Jackson metro area. The seven ideas [...]
In a world where there seems to be a lot of craziness, occasionally, Providence wins. Take today, for instance. This morning, while taking our son to day care (via the same route we have been taking for nearly 2 years), we passed the gas station sign we’ve been passing for awhile: “Suck the Shuck Tamales, [...]
Every once in a while, when The Husband and I are feeling nostalgic, we’ll reflect on the cruise we took for our honeymoon. One of the ports of call was Montego Bay, Jamaica. Almost seven years later, we still talk about this roadside shack we stopped at during our shore excursion that sold the best [...]
The Best Burger in Jackson Nominations were made. A bracket was set. And head to head time and time and time and time again, Babalu’s Baba Burger pulled through the match-ups. Sometimes narrowly. Sometimes by a healthy margin. And when it came time for the buzzer on the final round, they beat out their sister [...]
The first time a friend said “Hey, we should get Room Service!” – I was a little confused. Room service? Isn’t that just something you get when you’re staying at a hotel? She rolled her eyes and handed me a menu for Room Service, a primarily take-out and catering-oriented lunch joint here in Jackson. Rather [...]
Thinking about takeout? Think about trying the Swamp Burger Signa’s Grille. It was a perfect afternoon, the kind of afternoon you want to spend on your porch eating dinner and enjoying the newly gained extra hour of daylight… time you don’t want to spend in the kitchen cooking. I’d heard of this amazing burger at [...]
What is a Monday Jolt? Something new and awesome from your friends here at Eat Jackson! Monday Jolt will simply be a delicious question to get your mind moving in the right direction on a Monday morning. Answer the questions in the comments below for a chance to win a real jolt: a $10 Cups [...]
Back in November, Eat Jackson fans far and near registered en masse for a chance to win Eat Jackson’s Gigantic All-American Bowl Party Giveaway. With hundreds of dollars in gift certificates to many of the best local football food-fixing restaurants in the Jackson metro area including , apparently the prize was lucrative based on the [...]
We could also name this story something like Eat Jackson’s Ultimate Guide to Holiday Take-Out or the Holiday 2012 Christmas Dinner To-Go Menu Guide or an assortment of other things, but the bottom line is that here in the Deep South, each family member is bound to have at least a dozen “must-have” menu items [...]
Take Out Party Food in Jackson, MS It’s time to hustle and bustle. One dilemma that has become nothing short of a holiday tradition is that this time of year often leaves little time for slaving away in the kitchen – but many reasons to eat! This week, when you head out to a Christmas [...]
If the thought of Thanksgiving beckons images of boys in blue and red and maroon and white smashing into each other, surely you’re from Mississippi. On that beloved Saturday after Thanksgiving, when the leftovers have dwindled and we’ve all awoken from our turkey-induced comas, it’s high…
I have a love affair with donuts. Good donuts, that is. I am not a fan of heavy, cake-like objects in the shape of a donut. Or ones that are too greasy. But those perfectly fried sweet bread morsels draped in a perfect coat of sugar glaze…those have my heart. Light, melt in…
