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Wednesday night saw the opening of Justin Timberlake’s Southern eatery in NYC. The joint, named Southern Hospitality, will be serving up barbecue specialties in the style of Memphis cuisine. Justin, whose roots in Memphis, Tennessee inspired him to open up the restaurant with his two buddies, Trace Ayala and Eytan Sugarman, also took a few pages from his family’s recipe books, most specifically his grandmother.
“We had to negotiate on which ones she was willing to give up,” said Timberlake, whose grandmother and grandfather both visited the restaurant Wednesday.
As for his favorite meal on the menu, Timberlake said he likes “fried green tomatoes and the pulled pork.”
Also on the menu are crab and corn fritters, home-made biscuits and spare ribs, all of which sound ridiculously good to me at the moment. Justin’s famous friends showed up to celebrate the restaurant’s opening, including Lance Bass, Seth Green, Jay-Z, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. God, as I’m reading through this, I’m realizing that I’ll probably eat anything that has “fritter” tacked on to the end of it. Seriously, if someone served me a “baby fritter” I’d probably hesitate slightly before asking for some ranch dressing.
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More photos of Justin Timberlake from the Grand Opening of his new restaurant and bar Southern Hospitality are after the jump.
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stolidog | July 19, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Ah yes, his buddy Trace. That would be his gay buddy Trace to you and me.
Logan | July 20, 2007 at 5:17 am
JT is ugly. I would never want to stand next to him, because I can smell his BO from here, and he always looks oily and crap. He needs this lady from my local barber shop to teach him how to trim that crotch face wire hair he keeps allowing to grow all over the damn place.
What? | July 20, 2007 at 8:30 am
Who’s the blind person that keeps labeling him as sexy? There’s nothing even close to cute about this ugly faced thing.
jojo | July 23, 2007 at 3:07 am
Just ate there tonight. Not bad at all. Here’s the menu, in case you wanna check it out:
http://menukarma.com/menus/menu-for-southern-hospitality-in-new-york-city
I had the Memphis Spare Ribs
salemgurl | November 12, 2007 at 11:49 pm
What restaurants have the best thanksgiving dinner? I’m coming to NYC solo (I plan on going to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade 2007!!!
George | March 4, 2009 at 4:39 pm
JT is great, I don’t know what Logan’s problem is. And, by the way, you’re right he does happen to have B.O.
debbie scott | March 28, 2009 at 7:14 am
i am from memphis, tn. and i also went to millington high class of 81