Since the COVID pandemic, Memphis has gradually lost all of its late-night places to eat, and really almost nothing is left. One of the casualties of the pandemic was the idiosyncratic gourmet dive bar The Dirty Crow. Afterwards, it morphed into a more traditional dive bar known as Momma’s, with a trucker-bar theme. The food makes no pretense at being gourmet, but Momma’s stays open until 3AM, and is really the only late-night option to sit down and order a meal in the city.
The multi-year redesign of the Crump, Riverside and I-55 intersection has been giving Momma’s a hard time, making the bar hard to reach, but the completion and opening of the traffic circle off the river bridge has opened things up again. My bacon cheese burger was not necessarily the best I ever had, but it was decent and comforting after the couple of hours I had spent in West Memphis at an outdoor blues show. Being the late-night spot that it is, all kinds of characters came in while I was there, some for to go orders and others to eat in. For late night eats beyond fast food, there is really no other choice.
Momma’s
855 Kentucky St
Memphis, TN 38106
(901) 207-5111