About the Restaurants

If Mississippi were a five-syllable word, it would have to be Missifoodippi. For every festival, there’s a food. For every tradition, there’s a dish. And for every celebrity chef—like "Iron Chef" Cat Cora, James Beard Award winners Martha Foose and John Currence, and columnist Robert St. John—there’s a signature restaurant. Even the Viking Range Corporation makes its home in Greenwood, where it teaches cooking classes to foodies from around the world. From handheld classics served from a growing fleet of food trucks to the traditional dishes prepared table-side at established fine-dining restaurants, Mississippi’s reputation for culinary creativity is as wide and deep as her namesake river.