Dishes

The dishes we eat define who we are. Familiar or exotic, regional or universal, what's on the plate is an edible portrait of those who eat it, cook it, serve it, and grow or gather it.

Gravy spills across a pile of just-carved turkey in an open-face fandwich, with sides of mashed potatoes and cole slaw.

Turkey Sandwich

Hash browns made of sweet otatoes are accompanied by a biscuit and an egg white omelet

Sweet Potatoes

Pumpkin pie topped with whipped cream... tenderloins and sugar cream pie

Pumpkin Pie

Brussels sprouts glazed with maple-chile marinade

Brussels Sprouts

Deep oval casserole is piled high with mashed potatoes on top

Shepherd’s Pie

Bright yellow wedge of custard pie is sprinkled with nutmeg

Custard Pie

On a diner counter: a bowl holding a scoop of mashed potatoes covered with brown gravy

Mashed Potatoes

Large mound of corn pudding plays a supporting role on a disposable diner plate.

Corn Pudding

Caesar Salad

Tall, gnarled-top light gold biscuit

Biscuits

Country Fried Steak

Puffy, oven-baked pancake forms abowl that contains fresh fruit and powdered sugar.

Dutch Baby

Velvet-soft gnocchi glow with tomato sauce.

Gnocchi

A big meatball and length of Italian sausage loll in red sauce in a deep dish

Meatballs & Sausage

Baked potato heaped with BBQ, cheese, butter and sour cream

Baked Potato

A great pile of mashed potatoes holds a spill of brown gravy.

Gravy

Wine red blackberries spill from a wedge of pie

Blackberry Pie

Green-checked paper holds brittle-crusted broasted chicken along with equally crisp broasted potatoes

Broasted Chicken

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Two rib bones are laden with a great mass of spice-crusted, smoke-cooked beef

BBQ Ribs

  • BBQ
  • 112 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Large plastic cup of bubble tea comes with a large-gauge straw big enough to suck up the tapioca bubbles

Bubble Tea

  • Tea
  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Long roll holds shredded beef, molten cheese, and grilled onions

Cheese Steak

Poppy-seed bun holds hot dog with mustard, tomato, relish, pickle spear, and sport pepper

Chicago Dog

Chili Dog

hot dog with hot mustard and relish

Classic Hot Dogs

A bowl of soft-cooked collard greens shows bits of pork

Collard Greens

  • 68 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Cafeteria tray holds a square meal of BBQ chicken, mac & cheese, collards, cornbread, sweet tea, and banana pudding

Dinner Platters

  • 175 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A bowl of garlic-seasoned edamame for snacking

Edamame

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Crisp-edge, creamy-center French fries sprinkled with salt

French Fries

  • 224 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Fried rice is laced with Dungeness crab.

Fried Rice

  • 7 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Burger on a tender bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo ... car hop service

Grilled Hamburger

Macaroni & cheese, spangled with herbs, comes in a small cast-iron pot

Macaroni and Cheese

  • 156 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Strawberry shake in a tall soda fountain glass is accompanied by a silver beaker of extra milk shake for refills at Sand Creek Cafe in Auburn, WI

Milkshakes

In a red drive-in basket, onion rings are crisp and golden-brown

Onion Rings

  • 127 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Close view of a New Haven pizza topped with thin discs of pepperoni

Pepperoni Pizza

  • Pizza
  • 19 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A strip of pork belly is striated like bacon, but thicker and even more succulent

Pork Belly

  • Bacon
  • 8 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Bowl of broth crowded with noodles also contains strips of pork and green onions

Ramen

  • 6 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Broad onion bun sandwiches rare roast beef and a good squirt of horseradish cream

Roast Beef Sandwich

Salad plate includes slices of orange drizzled with dark balsamic vinaigrette.

Salads

  • Salad
  • 210 Restaurants
  • 3 Recipes

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