These restaurants offer great ethnic cuisines in the Jackson metro area
The Jackson area is home to people of many different cultural and regional backgrounds and many of those people have unique cuisines associated with their heritages.
And, Jackson has plenty of restaurants serving up a diverse array of cultural cuisines, including Greek, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Thai, African and Japanese, just to name a few.
Below is a list of some restaurants in the Jackson area that serve ethnic cuisines. Check them out and give them a try if you are in the Jackson and surrounding-areas.
Italian cuisine:
Cerami's Italian Restaurant
Cerami's Italian Restaurant is known for its crab cakes, crab claws and calamari but the menu is filled with a variety of Italian classics that customers will love.
Location:
5417 Lakeland Drive, Flowood
Amerigo Italian Restaurant
Locations:
Amerigo is an Italian restaurant that offers lunch and dinner options of pastas with a variety from which to choose, including crawfish pasta, three-cheese tortellini and more.
155 Market St., Flowood
6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland
Enzo Osteria
Enzo Osteria is an Italian restaurant that offers a range of different pastas, including spinach and ricotta ravioli pasta and customer-favorite, Six-P-Pasta.
"We have about 11 pasta dishes on the menu and several of them are actual recipes I learned while over in Italy where I spent a good portion of my year doing culinary tours," Robert St. John, owner of Enzo Osteria, told the Clarion Ledger earlier this year. "There's a pasta called Six-P-Pasta that my son learned when he was cooking over in Italy as well and the P stands for different types of cheese that's used inside the pasta. That's our most popular one."
Location:
970 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland
Chinese cuisine:
China Café
China Café in Flowood sells traditional Chinese favorites, including egg rolls, shrimp fried rice, egg drop soup and more.
Location:
160 Promenade Blvd., Flowood
Ichiban Hibachi and Sushi
Ichiban is a dine-in experience that combine Asian flavors with Chinese style foods. The food, including sushi appetizers, salads, steak and more, is cooked in front of you.
Locations:
359 Ridge Way, Flowood
3 Mac And Bones Blvd., Pearl
146 Grandview Blvd., Madison
Thai cuisine:
Thai food, from Thailand, includes distinctive dishes that are sweet, sour, spicy or salty, including Tom Yum Goong (hot and sour shrimp soup), Kaeng Lueang (yellow curry), and Gaeng Daeng (red curry). Some dishes contain rice or fruit such as pineapples.
Thai Zapp Restaurant
Location:
145 Market St., Flowood
Thai Time Thai and Sushi Restaurant
Location:
1405 Old Square Road, Jackson
African cuisine:
African cuisine played a role in the development of Cajun cuisine. Examples of African foods are a combination of rice, peas, yams and cassava made up of African fufu recipes and more.
Sambou's African Kitchen
Location:
1625 E County Line Rd. Suite 150, Jackson
Afrishoppi Kitchen | Best African Restaurant
Afrishoppi Kitchen is one of the blest places to grab some African style foods such as African native spaghetti, ogbono soup with fufu and crab and more.
Location:
201 Ring Road, Ridgeland
Greek Cuisine:
Zeus Mediterranean Kitchen
Zeus Mediterranean Kitchen is a family-owned business that offers Mediterranean taste of the greek culture with Grecian dip and served with two pieces of pita, plus a lot more.
Location:
2530 Flowood Dr., Flowood
ZEEKZ Flowood
Zeekz in Flowood offers greek gyros, Pita moss with steak & shrimp and more.
Location:
96 Laurel Park Drive, Flowood
Other Greek well-know locations to try are Crechale’s, Keifer’s and Mayflower that all offer their own unique "comeback sauces."
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This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Ethnic foods offered at restaurants in Jackson MS
