By far one of my favorite restaurants in Orange County, Memphis Café serves southern comfort food for lunch and dinner. This dive-looking establishment from the outside is located in Costa Mesa on Bristol Street, and when you walk inside it’s dark, small and very casual. The food, however, is some of the best around... fantastic gumbo, blackened catfish po-boys, meatloaf, seared ahi tuna salad and one of the best pork chops ever (dinner and Sunday brunch only). Come late night when the dining room clears out and the DJ comes alive. One piece of advice, when you’re there for lunch, take your sunglasses in with you and put them on before you walk outside… not only will you look cool, but it will keep you from going blind.
