Since Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd, Ridgeland) has only been open a few days, I was surprised to see a fair number of people there when I went today.  But I was less surprised when I opened the menu and learned that it is an Al Stamps joint — his reputation for burgers totally precedes him (in a good way) in this town.

Atmosphere-wise, B&B is a great counterpoint to Al Stamp’s other restaurant, Cool Al’s. There’s nothing wrong with a divier vibe, but if you want to be …

As much as I love the comfort and taste of southern food, I get very excited about other types of cuisine coming to Jackson.  It makes me feel so cosmopolitan!  So I was really excited to try Chitoes African Deli and Catering (1700 Terry Rd, Jackson).
Despite being in one of those strip-malls-that-time-forgot on Hwy 80, the inside of Chitoes is pleasant and bright (though not exactly modern).  There are four booths, lots of windows, and upbeat African music on the stereo.

On my first visit, I got plantains and jelof rice and …

Everyone else probably knew this already, but somehow I only recently noticed that McDade’s has a hot bar at the deli counter.  I heard a rumor that the breakfast* was an especially good deal, so I stopped at the Belhaven store (904 E. Fortification St, Jackson) on my way to work this morning.

The hot bar when I went offered scrambled eggs, biscuits, grits (cheese and regular), rice, gravy, toast, french toast, breakfast sausage, regular sausage, and bacon.  I chose a biscuit, sausage, and cheese grits.

The biscuit was quite good, if …

I have been meaning to try Olga’s Fine Dining (4760 Hwy 55, Jackson) for a long time.  I finally made it there when I read that they now serve lunch, and that most of the things on the lunch menu are under $10.
I got the ribeye sandwich, a special.  The meat was tender, juicy, and very medium rare (as I had requested).  There was a fair amount of fat  around the edges, but plenty of meat left after cutting off the fatty pieces.  I loved the bread, which was fluffy …

I went to Taqueria Guanajuato (1651 Terry Rd, Jackson) within hours of it showing up on the Restaurant Openings Report — I do love tacos!  I’m glad I made it there so quickly, and I’ll be going back often.

The taqueria is a sit-down restaurant, with plenty of booths and a nice, friendly atmosphere.  I was immediately given chips and some very spicy salsa.
For my meal, I ordered four tacos: al pastor, chorizo, asada, and barbacoa.  When the fixings for my tacos arrived at the table, I think I said “wow” …

Big John’s (3399 Medgar Evers Blvd, Jackson) is a good place to go if you feel like eating four to five sandwiches for four to five bucks.  They may not be very huge sandwiches, but they’re pretty tasty.

The “smokes” sandwich, for $1, is crumbled spicy sausage with slaw.  It comes in hot and mild, and I chose hot, which had a great burn to it.  It was very similar to the smoked sausage sandwich at the Big Apple Inn, and without a side-by-side comparison I’m not sure which I liked …

Taco trucks are one of my all-time favorite food-related phenomena–mostly because there is something magical about eating out of a truck, but also because I’ve also had some of the best tacos of my life out of them.  So I was pretty excited to hear that there was a taco truck parking outside the construction site of the new courthouse downtown (Court Street, between Congress and West).  It was my first eating-from-a-truck experience in Jackson–and I have lived here for almost 8 months now, so it had been way too …