Hernando Main Street Chamber Magazine 2020

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Shop & Eat Local

New businesses bring food and home décor options to Hernando.

From home décor to barbecue and specialty sweets,

Taylor, known to certain members of his family as

a growing selection of all-new small businesses have recently

the eponymous Uncle Bubba, entered the cooking scene after

entered the local economy in Hernando, further adding to its

spending 39 years in the electronics industry. He enrolled in

reputation as one of the fastest growing cities in Mississippi.

L’Ecole Culinary School and spent some time working in Italy before moving on to the restaurant industry in Hernando,

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where he’s managed everything from food truck ventures to

full-service restaurants.

Terry Taylor, owner of the new Uncle Bubba’s

Barbecue & Smokehouse restaurant, is no stranger to the food service industry. As a longtime culinary innovator and the

owner of Underground Café, Taylor already had a vision of a

barbecue team for years,” Taylor said. “Uncle Bubba’s seemed

barbecue restaurant with a full bar in mind when a building

like a natural move and it’s a nice, needed addition to

on Highway 51 became available in May of 2018.

Hernando if you ask me.”

“I just thought it would be a perfect restaurant,”

“I’ve always loved to cook and have been on a

Uncle Bubba’s features daily happy hour specials, live

Taylor said. “Barbecue has always been a big deal in this area,

music and several menu standouts including ground brisket

and what better way to control the competition than to take

burgers and pork belly burnt ends, an appetizer that Taylor

matters up myself?”

claimed “really pops.”

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