Bryant's Bar-B-Q & Breakfast

Summer Avenue's BBQ-and-biscuits crossroads since 1968

Bryant's Bar-B-Q & Breakfast is a barbecue restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee.

Bryant's Bar-B-Q & Breakfast began in 1968 as a Loeb's franchise and has held its Summer Avenue home since 1977. It is a genuine dual threat, famous at once for pit barbecue and a Southern breakfast of homemade biscuits under white gravy, a combination that made it a morning institution as much as a smoke house.

Garden & Gun crowned it King of Breakfast, but the pit keeps pace: chopped pork sandwiches built on hickory-smoked shoulder, dry-rub ribs off the pit, and salt-cured country ham that leans breakfast or plate. A new owner reopened it in 2021 and left the menu untouched, so the biscuits and the pork still trade off the same counter. Come at dawn for the gravy, stay past noon for the smoke, and either way the line tells you which side is winning.

• Style: Memphis Style
• Price: $
• Neighborhood: Summer Avenue
• Serving since 1968

What to order

• Chopped Pork Sandwich
• Biscuits and Gravy
• Country Ham
• Ribs

How it scores — 8.0/10 overall

• Smoke: 8.1/10
• Bark: 7.9/10
• Tenderness: 8.0/10
• Consistency: 7.9/10
• Value: 8.3/10
• Atmosphere: 7.6/10

Visiting

• Address: 3965 Summer Ave, Memphis, TN 38122
• Phone: (901) 324-7494
• Website: https://bryantsbreakfast.com/

Hours: Wed–Sun 5am–2pm, Mon–Tue closed

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