Name: Arcade Restaurant
Address: 540 S Main St, Memphis, TN, 38103, US
Telephone: (901) 526-5757
Rating: 4.42

We serve breakfast all day. Southern style lunch specials throughout the week, along with dinner specials Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. In addition to great food, we have an extensive and creative bar and coffee menu and have great desserts! The Arcade Restaurant is the perfect location to host your next meeting, reception, or special event!

We have multiple bars available and can host your event as casual, formal, or everything in between! The Arcade offers a wide array of both food and beverage options, outside of the regularly offered menu. Our back room has capacity for 100 people, while the front holds up to 90, along with outdoor patio seating!

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The Arcade has the honor of being Memphis' oldest restaurant. Speros Zepatos founded the diner in 1919 after immigrating from Cephalonia, Greece. Situated at the corner of South Main Street and G.E. Patterson, the original building was a small, one story, wood framed building. Food was actualy cooked on potbelly stoves!

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Sonja Holcombe

Dec 30, 2021

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No trip to Memphis would be complete without a stop at the Arcade! Great good and great ambiance!

Brenda Lintner Scott

Dec 29, 2021

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This place was cute and had a very hard working staff. However. we waited 2 hours for ice cold breakfast food. I would NOT recommend this place.

Tracey Pearson

Dec 29, 2021

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The staff was very friendly. My family and I loved the food. Some of the bestttt French fries I’ve had—very hot & fresh! I also ordered a latte which was tasty. So glad we stopped here considering I had read that this was a place Elvis enjoyed coming to quite often!

Ebony Walls

Dec 22, 2021

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A staple here in Memphis and since I’m a local I decided to give them a try. Service was great. I was shocked due to the amount of customers that our server was on top it! Mimosas were great! I wasn’t sold with my sandwich but it was tasty. Will have to try something else time l.

Robin Winingar

Dec 19, 2021

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The staff are courteous, and helpful. The food is VERY good! We ate at several breakfast places on our trip, but once we found the Arcade, we are there 3 mornings in a row! Everything was very good!

Christopher Garza

Dec 19, 2021

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Had the Breakfast Sampler and a Bloody Mary. It was a perfect breakfast and really delicious. This diner style restaurant has a lot of history and was a great place to check out and I would highly recommend it.

Kon Gruffey

Dec 11, 2021

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Go to the restaurant, service was phenomenal, food was excellent, and the coffee perfect!!! And? The vibe in here was really cool too!!

Dot Young

Nov 11, 2021

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Food was good, wait was long but worth it. The atmosphere is family friendly and casual. I loved the sweet potato pancakes. Delicious!

Tiffani Doyle

Oct 29, 2021

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Such a cool dinner with history and awesome food! The Fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich and the Deluxe Grilled Cheese were delicious!

Terry Scott

Oct 22, 2021

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Great food atmosphere and friendly service. Breakfast like Mom used to make.

Debisree Ray

Oct 14, 2021

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This is the oldest cafe in town. So it’s already an attraction. The diner is totally quaint and looks like an old movie set. ( remember, the diner in the movie Pulpfiction.) I visited twice so far. The weekend was the busiest. We had to wait 15 minutes outside to get a table. The cappuccino and the macchiato was too good. However, the next day I ordered cafe au lait. It was terribly bad! The sampler breakfast platter is a really good choice, where you get to eat many things. I love e their French toast, which is insanely unhealthy, deep fried stuff with powdered sugar! But all unhealthy goodies

MaryJ Wanna

Jul 13, 2021

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This dive little diner has been around town a hot minute and if it always had the crew of hustling team players it did when we visited last week it makes sense that they've lasted as long as they have. The place has humble atmosphere, down to earth causal attire seems to be necessary to enable the crew to keep up w the flow of local and tourist fans it kept a line of out the door but without a serious wait. Antique architecture with traditional diner decor. It's always great to see guests of all income levels welcomed and taken care of like the equals we are. The prices where what I found reasonable