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

Burger Watch: Frank & Marlee’s Cowboy Killer

You might say Oxford is Burger Country. There's no shortfall of beefy, bunned bliss around town. One that you mustn't overlook is found just...

On Cooking Southern: Holiday Cheese and Cookies

By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK High and Dry: A state or condition of being abandoned and stranded, without hope or recovery, like a beached boat....

Cooking Up Fun at the Memphis Cotton Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TQ6hrBjFc HottyToddy.com food writer Laurie Triplette served up some Christmas cheer to children and adults on Saturday at the Memphis Cotton Museum’s Gimme Some Holiday...

VIDEO Lunch Watch: Rollin’ Up in Popeye’s

Oxford is well known for its locally-created eateries, but it's no sin to enjoy a little chain fast food. Popeye's doesn't fraternize with the...

A Restaurant That Can Hold A Town

Enter Merigold’s city limits and start your stopwatch. Tick. Tick. Tick. Drive past the ruins of its downtown. There’s just buildings. Old, washed up buildings....

Oxford’s LBs Meat Market: The Unlikely Story

Buck Cunningham sliced into Oxford’s demand for cuts in 2009 and hasn’t looked back. Oxford got a meat market because, doggonit, it needed one. Buck Cunningham...

Yearning for Yocona Sauce?

Pick up a jar, a spoon, and a steak By Tad Wilkes, Nightlife & Lifestyles Editor tad.wilkes@hottytoddy.com Steak purists almost always scoff at the notion of drizzling...

Yocona River Inn

Situated several miles outside Oxford in the Yocona community, a visit to the Yocona River Inn was a tradition for many on football weekends,...

Asheville’s French Broad Chocolates

This story was written by Alia Akkam, a New York-based writer and editor of Edible Queens. She developed an interest in food while studying...

Healthy Holiday Party Tips

It is that time of year again for the holiday party season leading up to a food-centered Christmas when many Americans tend to overindulge. ...