Verified Venue
The Cupboard
TL;DR
The Cupboard (1400 Union Ave) appears in 3 Hey Memphis guides. Everything below was checked at The Cupboard's own page before we published it, most recently on October 13, 2026.
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What we’ve verified
Each note below comes from a different Hey Memphis guide, written when we checked this place at the source.
- Midtown Memphis Restaurants: Where to Eat Right Now
A meat-and-three since 1943, and the vegetables are cooked without meat, bacon drippings, or other animal fat. Chicken-fried chicken with milk gravy, eggplant casserole, Italian spinach. Open 7am–8pm every day.
- Best Fried Chicken in Memphis: The Verified List
The city's daily meat-and-three since 1943 — when fried chicken is on the meat board, order it with three vegetables and thank us later. Open 7am–8pm every single day.
- Soul Food in Memphis: Where the Real Thing Lives
The city's daily meat-and-three, going since 1943 — fried green tomatoes, homemade dressing, and a rotating vegetable board with a detail worth knowing: the vegetables are cooked with no meat or animal fat, so vegetarians eat as well as anyone. Open 7am–8pm every single day; entrées run $2–$16.
Go to the source
Hours and prices change without notice, so we always send you to The Cupboard’s own page rather than reprinting details that can rot: thecupboardrestaurant.com.
If you’re headed there anyway
Other places we’ve verified that show up in the same guides.
- Uncle Lou's Fried ChickenWhitehaven, 1725 Winchester Rd
- SageDowntown, 94 S Main
- Alcenia'sThe Pinch
- The Four WaySoulsville
- Southern Hands Homestyle CookingHickory Hill + Kirby + Millbranch
- Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken2943 N Germantown Pkwy
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