Bully's Restaurant

Bully's Restaurant is one of Jackson's most cherished soul food institutions, operating from 3118 Livingston Road in a residential section of northwest Jackson where it has served generations of local families since the restaurant was established by the Bully family. The kitchen produces daily-cooked Southern food of the kind that has become increasingly rare: oxtails braised until the meat collapses from the bone; smothered pork chops slow-cooked in a savory onion gravy; collard greens and turnip greens simmered with smoked meat; butter beans and field peas; sweet potato pie and peach cobbler made in-house. The menu is a rotating blackboard of whatever has been cooked that morning, and the quality is contingent on the freshness of each day's preparation. The dining room is intimate and unassuming, with a cafeteria-style service format through which diners choose their plate from the counter and carry it to simple tables. Cash is the standard payment method, and prices are among the lowest for sit-down dining in Jackson. Bully's draws a devoted weekday crowd of Jackson residents, city workers, and members of the surrounding neighborhood who treat it as a regular weekly institution. Food writers from across the country have written about Bully's as one of the essential soul food experiences in Mississippi — a place where the cooking is honest, personal, and connected to a tradition that the restaurant has carried forward without compromise. Sunday is a particularly popular service day alongside the weekday lunch hours.