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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in The Daily Memphian and The Commercial Appeal. Updated September 2026.
Pop's Tamales · Orange Mound
Pop's is an Orange Mound tamale shop devoted to the Mississippi Delta tradition. Its small counter turns out tamales packed with meat and spice. Order the tamales themselves at this neighborhood stop.
Hattie's Tamale · South Memphis
Hattie's is one of the South Memphis shops in the city's tamale tradition. The Willie Mitchell Boulevard room is the original Hattie's, where beef tamales remain the main event. Order the tamales at this long-running neighborhood counter.
Casa Perez Market · Berclair
Casa Perez's tamales can anchor a family meal alongside black beans. Pick up the tamales and build the rest of a meal around them.
Las Tortugas · Germantown
The Germantown restaurant makes tamales with chicken or pork fillings. Its current menu offers a plate of two homemade tamales. Start with those tamales at the original Germantown dining room.
Mr. Donut · Horn Lake
The doughnut counter on Goodman Road also sells Delta-style tamales made by Hot Tamale Heaven in Greenville. A hot-tamale sign marks the savory option in the window; the tamales come wrapped in corn shucks. Come for the unexpected pairing of a doughnut shop and a Delta tamale maker.