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The Arcade is Memphis' oldest cafe -- it was around when the neighborhood around it was booming in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, it survived when downtown fell into a slump in the 60s and 70s, and now it's still there with the re-gentrification happening around it. The sure sign the hipsters have arrived is the American Apparel store across the street. Luckily the food doesn't seem to have changed.
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Thwarted in our quest for
beignets on Beale Street the night before, we ordered them as "starters" for breakfast. Then the real breakfast: I had
eggs, grits, and sweet potato pancakes; redneckhunter had
eggs, hash browns, and his beloved
biscuits and gravy. A real down-home country breakfast. I also got a thrill from the fact that the cafe was in Jim Jarmusch's
Mystery Train -- I think it was the scene where Nicoletta Braschi gets harrassed by the Elvis freak and then meets Joe Strummer's girlfriend.
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The Arcade Restaurant540 S Main St
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 526-5757
Addendum:
I think this is the scene - 1000yregg
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