Wally Joe
Acre
Memphis, TN
Chef Wally Joe was born in Hong Kong and raised in Cleveland, Mississippi. Wally studied banking and finance at the University of Mississippi but was ultimately drawn back to a career in the kitchen as chef de cuisine at KC’s, his family’s restaurant in Cleveland, where his attention to detail and obsessive quest for quality garnered rave reviews. KC’s is the only AAA 4-Diamond Award winning restaurant in the state of Mississippi.
Wally has been featured in Food Arts, Southern Living, Bon Appétit, Esquire, Indulge, USA Today and Chef. He is one of 20 chefs featured in the Discovery Channel series, “Great Chefs of the South.”
In 2002, he opened the now defunct Wally Joe Restaurant with numerous accolades. In 2011, Wally Joe and Andrew Adams opened Acre which has continuously been viewed as one of the top restaurants in Memphis.
