Eating Oxford

The Velvet Ditch brings seafood and steady service to Oxford

A new hot spot offering seafood, bar favorites and steady service in a setting that fits both weeknights and game weekends

Hotty Toddy News Services - November 15, 2025

Taste of the Game: The Varsity Drive-In Still Hot after 80-Plus Years

Now that most of us have recovered the first round of the holiday hustle and bustle, it's time to move on to round two....

On Cooking Southern: Aunt Alline's Cherry Fruit Cake

By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week About as handy as a back pocket on a shirt: That gizmo’s just about useless to the average person....

Oxford Restaurants Invite All to Dine on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a day of gathering and remembering the year as it goes at a chime past midnight. For us Rebels the...

What’s New on the Menu at Big Bad Breakfast?

Big Bad Breakfast has added some new items to their menu and General Manager, Jill Stevens said they are fast becoming customer favorites. “Our 'new'...

Oxford Restaurant Week Encourages People to Eat Out to Help Out

Oxford is known for having some of the best food in the state, the South and probably the country, and eating that delicious food...

Give Gift of Flavor from City Grocery Restaurant Group & Main Event

The Main Event is offering holiday gift boxes of all different sizes with popular items from each restaurant in the City Grocery Group. Boxes...

On Cooking Southern: Dressing and Roasting a Duck

By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Like a duck on a junebug: Attracted so strongly a person is gonna get right onto it physically or literally...

Salad Days, Part 6: Bouré's Southwest Fried Chicken Salad

Yep, I'm still claiming I sometimes eat healthy. I suppose that claim today is stretched as thin as Stretch Armstrong's arms pulled to their limits...

Jim 'N Nick's Founder, Wife Make Major Gift to Southern Foodways Alliance

Nick and Suzanne Pihakis of Birmingham, Alabama, have made a transformative gift to endow the Pihakis Foodways Documentary Fellow, a filmmaking and teaching position...

Salad Days, Part 5: The Refreshing Soulshine Caesar

Whoa, I have certainly strayed off course. Earlier this year, I embarked upon a quest for good salads in town, to try to improve my eating...