Eating Oxford

Hot Ones Spices Up Oxford at Back Nine

Spice lovers rejoice! Savor crispy buffalo wings and a fiery chicken sandwich, featuring Hot Ones Buffalo Hot Sauce perfection.

VIDEO Lunch Watch: Rollin’ Up in Popeye’s

Oxford is well known for its locally-created eateries, but it's no sin to enjoy a little chain fast food. Popeye's doesn't fraternize with the...

A Restaurant That Can Hold A Town

Enter Merigold’s city limits and start your stopwatch. Tick. Tick. Tick. Drive past the ruins of its downtown. There’s just buildings. Old, washed up buildings....

Oxford’s LBs Meat Market: The Unlikely Story

Buck Cunningham sliced into Oxford’s demand for cuts in 2009 and hasn’t looked back. Oxford got a meat market because, doggonit, it needed one. Buck Cunningham...

Yearning for Yocona Sauce?

Pick up a jar, a spoon, and a steak By Tad Wilkes, Nightlife & Lifestyles Editor tad.wilkes@hottytoddy.com Steak purists almost always scoff at the notion of drizzling...

Yocona River Inn

Situated several miles outside Oxford in the Yocona community, a visit to the Yocona River Inn was a tradition for many on football weekends,...

Asheville’s French Broad Chocolates

This story was written by Alia Akkam, a New York-based writer and editor of Edible Queens. She developed an interest in food while studying...

Healthy Holiday Party Tips

It is that time of year again for the holiday party season leading up to a food-centered Christmas when many Americans tend to overindulge. ...

A Sweet and Chilly Tradition: Snow Ice Cream

Growing up down South, I never cared for cold weather and the older I get, the more I hate winter. My bones ache and...

McEwen’s Oxford Keys on Fresh, Local Ingredients — Makes Its Menu Sing

McEwen’s brings a decidedly unique taste to Oxford. Though the restaurant originated as a branch of McEwen’s Memphis, it quickly found its niche on...

The Delta: Growing in the Food Desert

Black churches in the Delta are preaching the gospel of gardening. It could be their salvation. A quiet revolution is growing in the Delta....