Sou'wester

Issue date: 2/4/09 Section: Entertainment

Barksdale Restaurant is
what I would expect to walk
into if I was in any small town
in Oklahoma. Pictures and
paraphernalia line the nearly invisible
wood-paneled wall, with
a giant American flag stretched
out in the middle of the entire
collage. The place was packed
for Saturday lunch in a way that
I had previously only seen in
college town diners. The food was priced small town-style as well, with a sizeable breakfast
available for easily less than six dollars. The food was mainly very solid: their main breakfast
courses all involve eggs, which were very soft and fresh. The biscuits were reminiscent of
home-cooked meals and the bacon was properly charred, at least to my liking. The only
complaint I had about the entire meal was my order of cheese grits, which only contained a
few smatterings of actual cheese, but was still tasty in its own right. Barksdale has a collegetown,
down-home kind of feeling to it that most of Memphis lacks, and is a nice escape to
the quiet, rural south from the constant activity of the city.

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