A second location of Marshall Steakhouse is planned for Oxford, Mississippi (Credit: Michael Donahue)

A second location of Marshall Steakhouse is slated to open in January or February, 2026, in Oxford, Mississippi.

The new location, which will be called โ€œMarshall Steakhouse Oxford,โ€ is owned by Randall Swaney and his wife, Lori, who are the owners of the original Marshall Steakhouse on Hwy. 178 West between Red Banks and Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Ground-breaking has already been done for the new 18,000 square-foot building, which will be “right across the street from Trade Park, off College Hill Road and Sardis Road,” Randall says. โ€œIt will be on the new West Oxford loop, which is a bypass that goes around Oxford.โ€

The Oxford location, like the Holly Springs location, will seat 320 people. It will feature steaks and other fare during the week, and Italian cuisine from chef Judd Grisanti on Wednesdays and Thursdays. (Grisanti cooks on Mondays and Tuesdays at the original location.)

The Oxford location will feature heavy timber flooring and rafters and white oak tables, similar to the decor at the original Marshall.

Randall opened the original restaurant eight years ago. It was originally going to be a sawmill. Then Randall considered making it a feed store, then a combination gun store and feed store. He built the tables before he thought about opening a restaurant. โ€œI was making all those tables to sell, basically, and hadnโ€™t sold any.โ€

Thatโ€™s when he got the idea to put a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in a screened porch in front of the store and cook hamburgers at lunch on a Weber grill.ย Then an employee told him, โ€œYou might as well have steaks one night.โ€œ

At that point, Randall scrapped all the other plans and opened Marshall Steakhouse. He has plans to open more Marshall Steakhouses, including one in Lebanon, Tennessee, near Nashville. Marshall says the Lebanon location will include 100 RV sites and 50 overnight cabins. โ€œThat will be โ€˜Marshall Steakhouse Resort,โ€ he says.

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...