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The Soul Burger at Earnestine and Hazel's is a griddled patty topped with caramelised onions, pickles and the bar's mysterious Soul Sauce, the city's defining bar burger.
Earnestine and Hazel's at 531 South Main occupies a building that has stood since around 1919, used over the decades as a cafe, jukebox bar and rumoured brothel before becoming the South Main dive bar Memphians know today. The Soul Burger sits at the heart of the room's reputation, griddled on a small flat-top and topped with the bar's house Soul Sauce, the recipe still guarded. By the 1990s the burger had become a Memphis late-night ritual.
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Earnestine and Hazel's on South Main downtown Memphis is the city's defining dive, a former brothel and pharmacy with a jukebox, Soul Burgers and ghost lore.
TipThe Soul Burger is the bar food order. The upstairs is where the ghosts are said to live.
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