Mempho Music Festival to serve up plenty of good eats. Here's what's on the menu.
You are probably headed to Mempho Music Festival for the music, but be sure to go hungry. Mempho organizers have created an all-star lineup of great eats for you to enjoy.
"At Mempho Fest, we strive to deliver an elevated festival experience for our guests," Mempho producer Jeff Bransford said. "We provide a wide array of food and drink offerings, from curated food truck options to first-class culinary dishes prepared by world-renowned chefs. We try to highlight the best of Memphis and bring in new tastes from around the country. The music, food, drinks and atmosphere all combine to form a tasty dish."
Food trucks and more at Mempho Music Festival
As in past years, Mempho will have several popular Memphis restaurants and food trucks serving their fare at the concert event, set for Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Radians Amphitheater at Memphis Botanic Garden .
All guests will be able to enjoy festival fare from the more than 10 food trucks that will be set up on the festival grounds. MemPops and Sleddogs are just two of the popular Memphis food trucks that are featured.
Memphis brewery Wiseacre Brewing Co. will also have a large presence at the festival, as it is the official Mempho beer partner.
Tennessee-based Jack Daniels is a partner, as well as Bols Vodka (an European vodka distiller) and White Claw .
Be sure to bring your credit card. Mempho is cashless. Guests have the option of attaching their credit card information to RFID (radio-frequency identification) wrist bands for an optional form of payment.
Lexus Live Fire
In addition to the general admission offerings, Mempho organizers have also planned a special dining experience for their VIP ticket holders: the Lexus Live Fire experience.
Inside the Lexus VIP Village, guests will be treated to meals cooked over live fire by a star-studded lineup of chefs from across the Southeast.
Memphis chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, who own renowned restaurants such as Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen , Hog & Hominy and Catherine & Mary's, will be cooking alongside acclaimed chefs from New Orleans, Charleston, South Carolina, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Ticer and Hudman, along with the guest chefs, will be cooking on a custom-made wood-burning pizza oven. The two chefs said they are excited about the AMIKrib that will be served on Sunday night. They describe it as "a fun take on a boneless rib sammy."
The invited chefs are ones Ticer and Hudman have collaborated with before. "These are not just our friends, but we respect them," Ticer said.
New Orleans chefs Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon Butcher and Ryan Prewitt of Peche , Birmingham chef Rob McDaniel of Helen restaurant and chefs Aaron Siegel, Taylor Garrigan and Johnny Banta of Home Team BBQ in Charleston will be cooking alongside Ticer and Hudman over the course of the three days of the festival.
For tickets and more information about Mempho, visit memphofest.com.
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Jennifer Chandler is the Food & Dining reporter at The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jennifer.chandler@commercialappeal.com and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @cookwjennifer.
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This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Mempho Music Festival 2023: What are the food and drink options?
