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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Diner breakfast: bacon, eggs, hash browns & toast

Bacon & Eggs

  • Bacon
  • 12 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
BBQ-sauced beans in a blue bowl

BBQ Beans

  • BBQ
  • 45 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
A bowl of buttery, jade-green lima beans

Beans

  • 41 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Huge slab of prime rib extends far beyond its plate

Beef

  • 57 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Biscuit is topped with sausage as well as fried chicken and pimento cheese

Biscuits & Gravy

Close view of eggs scrambled with pimento cheese

Breakfast Eggs

  • Eggs
  • 80 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Chicken & vegetables pack a bowl of Brunswick stew

Brunswick Stew

  • Soup
  • 26 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
Plated roast chicken in a pool of savory natural juices

Chicken Dishes

  • 140 Restaurants
  • 2 Recipes
Gravy-smothered chicken fried steak with eggs and hash browns

Chicken Fried Steak

  • Steak
  • 60 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Cup of chili topped with cheese and chopped raw onions

Chili

A basket of warm cinnamon sweet rolls in a Kansas City chicken dinner house

Cinnamon Pastries

Spiral round pastry on a plate is covered with cinnamon and sugar outside and in

Cinnamon Roll

Two mugs of coffee, each with a tiny glass pitcher of chilled milk to add

Coffee

  • Coffee
  • 86 Restaurants
  • 1 Recipe
Bright yellow cornbread is moist like cake, dotted with corn kernels

Cornbread

Vanilla-frosted French cruller

Cruller

  • 9 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Traditional eggs Benedict, topped with hollandaise, perched upon Canadian bacon and English muffin halves. Hash browns in the background

Eggs Benedict

  • Eggs
  • 39 Restaurants
  • 1 Recipe
A single fried shrimp with crisp crust so thin you can see through it.

Fried Shrimp

Gooseberry (and other berry) tart

Fruit

  • 100 Restaurants
  • 0 Recipes
Gnarled and knobby with a sugar glaze, this free-form pastry occupies most of a normal-size plate.

Fruit Fritters

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