Faidley's is the big fish in a big pond. It's the anchor store of the Lexington Market, Baltimore's grazing paradise, where you can indulge in the likes of Angie's...
The top 12 hidden gems in Key West: Key West likes to call itself The Conch Republic, meaning its culture is unique, like a nation unto itself. Foodwise, that means...
Road trip through the Florida Keys Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico stretching out as far as the eye can see, this drive winds through vistas of...
Road trip through New Mexico Take a road trip and eat your way through El Camino Real "The Royal Road" through New Mexico. In addition to spectacular natural beauty, you...
Drive, hike and eat the best food in Sedona, AZ The drive through Sedona's Red Rock country is one of awesome scenery and good food served with old-fashioned western hospitality. ...
Close to the Road America's Byways® are a collection of 150 National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads designated by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. The Merritt Parkway of Connecticut is...
Road trip through Iowa The Loess Hills Scenic Byway through westernmost Iowa is describes as "truly an American treasure." The trip from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sioux City, Iowa offers Roadfood...
Road trip through Ohio Along this coastal road tip through Ohio, you will cover 119 miles in a little under two and a half hours of drive time. Driving from...
Road trip Las Vegas to Palm Springs Las Vegas, Palm Springs, and the desert between them are full of wonder, including the brightest of bright city lights as well as...
Road trip on Route 66 Illinois Route 66 is a highway rich with crazy attractions, unique museums, America's heartland history, and colorful odes to the joy of exploring the country...
Colorado Road trip Colorado is famous for its scenery, from the Garden of the Gods to the Rocky Mountains. Its beauties are as diverse as a rainbow. And its food,...
Eastern Wisconsin is a joyful place to visit … It is the might of Milwaukee and its diverse heritage, the still shores of Lake Michigan, the football-crazed city of...
New York Road Trip: Watertown to Niagara Falls This tour will take you on a five and a half hour drive along America’s Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Beginning in Watertown,...
Road trip from San Diego to Los Angeles The trip from San Diego up to Los Angeles County is only 115 miles or so, but with treacherous Southern California gridlock, the drive could...
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An eating tour of Portland Although shorter than the majority of our road trips, this single day tour will take you to a variety of restaurants around the unique city...
The Annual HOT ROD Power Tour This is a seven-day, seven-city journey expected to bring together more than 6,000 vehicles and 100,000-plus spectators making it the largest traveling car-show in...
Road Trip in Florida From Orlando and Winter Park down the east coast of Florida to Miami is a journey of never-ending adventure. Here you encounter brilliant sunshine, exotic wildlife,...
Road Trip through Alabama Sweet Home Alabama! ... from Selma – Queen City of the Blackbelt – to Montgomery -- the Heart of Dixie -- is an inspiring journey through...
Road trip along the California Coast Memorable food stops from San Luis Obispo to Ventura with meals that are California's alone. Sophisticated wineries and wine-tasting rooms: these are the pleasures...
Road trip through beautiful Michigan The northern part of Michigan is known to Michiganders and Midwestern vacationers as "Up North." It's a natural wonderland, surrounded by Great Lakes coastline, covered...
Road trip through Ohio A jewel of a city on the Ohio River, Cincinnati once was known as the Paris of America, home of diverse culture and a thriving culinary...
Take a Road trip through Texas A road trip deep in the heart of Texas is a genuine wild west expedition and a bonanza of colorful Roadfood. Whether on dusty...
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A Road trip along the Connecticut River A drive along the Connecticut River is described as a one of "traditions, vivid history, deeply rooted farming heritage, call of the railroads,...
Blue Ridge Parkway This five hour trip will take drivers along the Blue Ridge Parkway through Virginia and North Carolina to wonderful regional food served in restaurants that sing of...
Big Bend Coastal Trail Florida's Big Bend Coastal trail is a "rich heritage [of] barrier islands, sand dunes, beaches, bays, coastal marshes, and springs," as described by the U.S. Secretary...
The color of New England's autumn foliage attracts seasonal visitors to the southern foothills of the Berkshires, but year around, it is an excruciatingly beautiful land: rolling hills, stone...
Roadfood knows Cincinnati best for its unique five-way chili, which is nowhere better than at Camp Washington Chili Parlor, open round the clock. In this city that has earned...
After many happy weeks eating our way around Nashville. we've created a one-day eating plan that presents you with the best of the best: five fantastic meals in memorable...
For a mouthwatering summer road trip to sleeves-up joints surrounded by magnificent scenery, you can’t beat a seafood-eating expedition along New England's coast. At waterside picnic tables and roadside drive-ins, in...
What a yummy trip it is to eat one's way from Chicago to L.A. along old Route 66! This tour of 21 excellent stops along the way includes some...
The drive along old Route 66 from the Texas Panhandle to the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico is a pageant of natural splendor and...
In 1946, when Bobby and Cynthia Troup drove their Buick convertible from the East to the West coast in hopes of finding a future writing songs, Cynthia suggested to...
The magic of Highway 61 from Graceland down deep into the Mississippi Delta, through cotton fields and past speck-on-the-map small towns, is all about the blues. You might be...
Scenery-wise, it's not the Pas de Calais or the Beartooth Highway, but an Ohio road trip from the shores of Lake Erie to Rubber City (Akron) is an eager...
The 2014 Roadfood.com eating tour of Charlotte, North Carolina, featured four-star fried chicken, barbecue, pimento cheese, and banana pudding.
The long stretch of flatland threaded by Highway 13 between Pokomoke Sound and the Atlantic Ocean is a bonanza of mid-Atlantic specialties from oysters and crab to multi-layer Smith...
Aiken has long been a vacation destination for the horsey set – back in the 1950s, weekly non-stop train service direct from New York served wintering horses, horse owners,...
Route 98 east of Panama City and south of Tallahassee borders what is known as Florida's Big Bend because it is shaped like the one in Texas. But unlike...
While magnificent scenery along Route 66 in Arizona and California is abundant, good meals can be scarce. But it isn't necessary to take a major detour down to Sedona...
Starting with refreshing smoothies in Laguna Beach, this Coast Highway drive leads to surfer burgers supreme, tacos by the highway, breakfast of the gods and the quintessential SoCal coffee...
Making the drive from L.A. to Palm Springs? Here's where to find the best local, authentic eats along the way, plus where to go once you arrive.
A road trip west from Houston, starting with burgers and bbq towards serious smoked meat country and pie paradise
Florida's north coast is an eater's paradise, with fare both exotic and familiar. The menu includes fish camp cooking at its finest, pour-your-own pancakes at the Fountain of Youth,...
A road trip from Atlanta to the east, from pot likker, BBQ and biscuits to fried green tomatoes at the ultimate buffet in the town of Social Circle
Cincinnati chili is an American icon, but north of the Queen City is an array of great eats, both funky and fine. This road trip starts with a plate...
A road trip along the the southwest shore of Lake Michigan offers a wild taste-buds adventure (assuming you can get out of Chicago with any appetite remaining ... but...
A visit to New Mexico during the height of chile season takes us from Albuquerque, where the State Fair is underway, north to magical city of Santa Fe, then...
Probably because it is the home of Starbuck's, Seattle gets credit as the Northwest's great coffee city. It is great, no doubt about that, but so is Portland, Oregon;...
If you like fish that is dramatically fresh, served at nautical food bars with do-it-yourself service and dispose-your-own cardboard plates, there is no road trip more rewarding than a...
Memphis is a bonanza of world-class barbecue, smoked and served in humble storefront shops as well as booming dinner halls. Anything and everything can be had barbecued in this...
BBQ, Bar B Que and Bar-B-Q There isn’t anywhere to eat at Brenda’s BBQ but do not let that steer you away. The BBQ is too good to quibble...
Anaheim is one of the most visited towns in the United States, but there is more to the area than just theme parks. Great local, cheap Restaurants Near Disneyland and...
Looking for some stops along your Road trip? Check out our picks for the 6 best restaurants in New England. This is New England, so there is a plethora...
Bad lobster rolls are easy to come by. We've done the research and have found the best lobster rolls in New England for you! In Connecticut they have the...
Scenic Driving and Good Eating Rising an average of an inch every 60 to 80 years, the beautiful Red Rock formations that we see today were formed several million years...
Road Trip Overview A road trip over the Cascades through Snoqualmie Pass leads not only to a bucolic, big-sky Washington State and some of the most wonderful fruit stands (apples...
Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Boston Tradition-bound and cutting edge, Boston has restaurants for every taste, including some of the finest ice cream parlors in the country. Always on the...
Road Trip Overview This 5.5 hour road trip will take you over 312 miles from the fast paced streets of Las Vegas to the relaxed town of Palm Springs, just...
Breakfast in Pittsburgh is especially wonderful. It is one of the nation's great breakfast cities. And we're not just talking about a 3am pastrami and double egg sandwich at...
Arizona Road Trip! This three day Roadfood Adventure from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, through the small town of Sedona. With a population of only 10,397 Sedona has three fantastic...
Maybe because it is such a coffee Mecca, Seattle also happens to be one of the nation's best breakfast cities. Then, of course, there's an abundance of Pacific Northwest...
Is there another dish as diverse as pizza? It can be an utterly simple tomato pie – nothing but sauce on crust – or it can be a multi-meat...
Dayboat fish, pink shrimp, stone crab claws, and conch are just the nautical highlights of a Key West eating expedition. With Cuba 90 miles away, strong coffee and plancha-pressed...
A favorite vacation destination for southerners eager to escape summer heat and enjoy the cooler climate of the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills, the area around Landrum, South Carolina, and...
For conscientious seekers of Roadfood, a brief visit to Savannah can be frustrating. There are too many good eateries to savor them all. Of course, one wants great seafood,...
Whatever you like to eat, Chicago has it – humble and swanky, familiar and exotic, healthful and decadent, from anywhere on earth and in every imaginable setting. But what...
First, biscuits. Richmond is home to two irresistible bakeries that make beautiful buttermilk biscuits. They come plain or dressed to a fare-thee-well. Beyond biscuits, Richmond's Roadfood treasures include stylish...
Lovers of roast-beef sandwiches seek out Chicago’s Italian beef, Philadelphia’s cheesesteak, Southern California’s French dip, hot beef in the Upper Midwest, brisket in Jewish delis, wecks in Buffalo, and...
Branson, a city of countless entertainment theaters, not to mention zip lines, wax museums, and mini-golf courses, is a tourist Mecca. But that doesn't mean it lacks good places...
When writing our Roadfood guide book, which divides the nation into regions, Nebraska is a problem. Is it the Midwest or the West? Culinarily, it's some of each, but...
Asheville menus reflect both new-age nostrums and traditional Blue Ridge Mountain cookery. Vegetarians and vegans, gluten-frees and keto devotees all will find happiness. But so will hungry carnivores and...
With ready access to fresh seafood, a thriving population of cooks from Latin America, and culinary culture that's both tradition-minded and cutting-edge, Miami is a great place to eat....
Anybody visiting Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park will have no trouble finding a place to eat – there are hundreds. The trick is to find...
Hash on Rice is the star side-dish at barbecue parlors throughout the South Carolina Midlands and Upstate. A byproduct of whole-hog cookery, but frequently also made with beef, it...
For many visitors, a visit to Bend, Oregon, means communing with the outdoors. Hiking, fishing, skiing, and biking opportunities abound. If all that healthful activity and fresh mountain air...
From spectacular dive-bar burgers to elegant, cutting-edge cuisine, Wilmington, North Carolina, is an eater's paradise. The burgeoning downtown dining scene includes high-stylin' cafes with devoted farm (and sea)-to-table cookery...
There is no shortage of places to eat in the bustling beach town of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For an authentic, unique taste, forget the big, tourist-oriented dining halls....
The South Carolina Upcountry boom town of Greenville is an eater's delight of high-end restaurants, franchised food both high and low, and a handful of one-of-a-kind Roadfood treasures. Our...
Las Vegas high-end restaurants offer deluxe meals created by celebrity chefs. But what if you don't want to splurge? What if you want delicious food at a fair price...
Are you looking a flavor that is unique Chicago? Eating experiences that are found only in the city or at their very best here? If so, savor these memorable...
Savannah Low Country flavors are a profoundly colorful swirl of old-time Dixie, of African-American soul, and of the modern South. This itinerary of Roadfood favorites offers a taste of...
Tradition-bound and cutting edge, Boston has restaurants for every taste, including some of the finest ice cream parlors in the country. Always on the hunt for flavors unique to...
If you are looking for a true taste of Chicago -- eating experiences that are unique to the city or at their very best here -- savor these memorable...
California's agricultural artery, CA-99, runs through the fertile San Joaquin Valley along side the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Rather than movie studio tours, this showcases the "other California," farms that...
A Cafe That's Worth a Detour in Mariposa Yosemite has entrances, and great eats, on both sides of the Sierras. If you're staying on the Westside of the Sierras, make...
Portland, Oregon - A Breakfast Lover's Heaven The best breakfast in Portland might include palate-boggling donuts, the original Original Pancake House (and still the best), masterfully brewed coffee and espresso...
Southern California is especially well-endowed with significant coffee shops -- restaurants that are more polite than a diner but less formal than a linen-napkin restaurant. San Diego has some...
While it is possible to eat well for days (weeks, months!) just walking around New Orleans, a car provides access to some of NOLA's more far-flung culinary highlights that...
Where to Eat in Knoxville? Exploring cities can be fun but finding where to eat in one is difficult. A delicious day in Knoxville must begin in the Old City...
Do Not Miss These Donuts Although classic donuts are offered at Voodoo Doughnut we recommend you don’t order them. The magic of Voodoo Doughnuts is their creations that are...
Route 66 did not bypass cities. It ran straight through their hearts. Route 66 through Albuquerque is a prime example. Here, the highway goes right past some of our...
Road Trip Overview With a total of 316 miles to cover on this food filled road trip, the predicted drive time is 5 ½ hours. Beginning 30 minutes outside Dallas,...
Road Trip Overview Originally from Ohio and most recently San Francisco, Roadfood contributor Jess Dawson has taken her show on the road, traveling throughout America with her husband in their...
What Is Meat & Three? A term used through much of the South, “meat and three” quite simply refers to a menu template that lists two to five entrees and...
Un-fussy California Fare from Malibu to Santa Monica While Malibu is an upscale place, there are still opportunities to experience casual California beach eats at their best. Try some breakfast...
The road trip from Santa Barbara to Santa Maria offers the great beef and silky wines you’d expect from the ranch and vine scenery, and there are a few...
Palm Springs - An Eater's Oasis in the Desert Just a few hours east of Los Angeles, Palm Springs is known for its warm weather, golf courses, midcentury-modern architecture, and...
Original Northeastern Tomato Pies The original tomato pies in cities of the Northeast were simply flatbreads topped with crushed tomatoes, spice and maybe a few anchovies or a sprinkle of...
As breathtaking as a western sunset is, western breakfast can be every bit as beautiful. Sunrise never tasted better than it does at any one of these dozen breakfast...
Road Trip Overview Beginning in Kansas City, Missouri and heading along Interstate-70 toward the heart of Kansas, this 284 mile long road trip will take participants to a variety of...
Authentic Eats in Music City Avoid the tourist traps and overly-trendy spots, and opt for fantastic meals in these quintessential eateries in and around the city that will be the...
The Masters of Food Augusta, Georgia is most famously known for being the home of one thing, the Augusta National Golf Club, and more importantly, the Masters. However, this event...
Road Trip Overview Driving just two hours total, this road trip will take you in and around Orlando before heading to the coast, visiting 9 memorable restaurants along the way....
The Best Mexican Food Augusta, GA Everyone knows that the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) around Augusta, Georgia, is rich with BBQ, peach pie, fried chicken, Coastal seafood, and meat...
East Coast Classic Neapolitan Pizza Showdown Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey all lay claim to the best pizza in America, maybe in the world. We want you to be...
Connecticut Hot Dogs Along with New Jersey, New York, and Chicago, Connecticut is one of the nation's most fruitful hot dog hunting grounds. In this land of great hot dogs...
Great Soft Serve There is so much inferior soft-serve ice cream (aerated, chemically-flavored), that soft-serve in general has a bad reputation among ice cream lovers. But there are exceptions, soft-serve...
Burgers in the Open Air Hamburgers are good year-round, but there’s special pleasure in having one en plein air on a summer day. Check out these baker’s-dozen Roadfood favorite restaurants serving the...
Fill Your Gas Tank and Your Stomach "Eat Here. Get Gas": It's a roadside jest as old as gas stations themselves. (Before gas stations, pioneering motorists bought gas in pharmacies.)...
Outdoor Dining in the Windy City Some of the best casual outdoor dining in Chicago include meals that are eaten standing up at a counter or at outdoor tables. Here...
Taco Take Over When we started hunting Roadfood many years ago, good tacos were hard to find anywhere other than the southwest borderlands and southern California. Today, great tacos are...
Where to Eat in Louisville If you're in Louisville, Kentucky, for the Derby (or any other reason), Roadfood has a few essential eateries to recommend for the best local, authentic...
Grilled Cheese From pressed-flat, wafer-thin, white-bread-and-Velveeta cooked on a lunch-counter flattop to effulgent bouquets of imported cheese melted between halves of an artisan bun, the best grilled cheese sandwiches have...
What Makes a Po Boy a Po Boy? How does a po boy differ from a sub, hero, hoagie, grinder, wedge, or zep? First, there’s the bread, which is lighter...
BBQ, Biscuits, and Beyond For barbecue, Birmingham is hard to beat. Roadfood favorites include Miss Myra's Pit Bar-B-Q and Bob Sykes Bar-B-Q. Birmingham best eats also include some great breakfasts....
Road Trip Overview A Road Trip down the Oregon Coast Scenic Byway is one of the most beautiful stretches of roads anywhere, and also happens to be one of the...
Eating by the Water The Department of Transportation praises the byway around Lake Pend Oreille for its “abundance of recreational opportunities, postcard-quality scenery, and historical elements.” We like it for...
America's Byways® are a collection of 150 National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads designated by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Some take you through beauty so remote that there's...
Variety in the Big Apple What is the true taste of New York City? Yes, you can dine on the cuisines of the world (especially in the boroughs) and if...
Casual Eats In DC Forget the fine dining and not-so-fine dining that proliferates in the nation's capital. These Roadfood restaurants will provide a true and delicious taste of DC. For...
Worlds Greatest Cheat Day One day and a lot of appetite are the requirements for this eat-fest in Columbia, South Carolina. The city's signature dish is a pimento cheeseburger, nowhere...
Good Eats of South Tucson, a World Apart The city of Tucson completely surrounds the city of South Tucson. But legally and culturally – and edibly – South Tucson stands...
Skyline Drive The 105-mile two-lane that threads through Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, has decent food at its National Park Service Oases. (Try the Smithfield Ham Monte Cristo or the roast...
The Best Hash Around Hash (on rice) is the star side-dish at barbecue parlors throughout South Carolina. A byproduct of whole-hog cookery, it is made mostly from viscera and can...
Hangover BeGone Other than drinking more or not drinking at all, the way to banish hangovers is to spoon up some menudo. Made from tripe with a large charge of...
The Real Thing Barbecue's newfound nationwide popularity has put burnt ends on menus across the country, but in all too many cases, the burnt ends are bogus. The best burnt...
Sheboygan to Fish Creek The drive north from Milwaukee is a grand taste of Wisconsin. First stop: Sheboygan, renowned for its butchers' brats (rhymes with hots, short for bratwurst), cooked...
Jewish Eats in Montreal Montreal is home to a rich lode of Jewish food (kosher and not), ranging from the city's unique and justly famous bagels (at St. Viateur) to...
Things Have Changed Long ago, a slider was just one thing: a dime-thin patty of griddle-cooked cheap beef from 1 to 2 ounces nestled in a mini bun less than...
Airport Food Food in airports is better than it used to be, but when we arrive by plane, we can't get out of the terminal fast enough. By rental car,...
Dishes That Are Uniquely Connecticut When I moved from Connecticut to South Carolina, I was instantly smitten with my new home's shrimp and grits, fried chicken, local peaches, and, of...
The Challenge You have one day to eat around downtown Memphis. Assuming you don't want to have barbecue for all your meals -- there's no place better for that strategy...
North and Northwest With famously good restaurants serving local and exotic meals, Santa Fe is such a powerful magnet for the appetite that it can be hard to leave. But...
Non-Vegetarian Vegetables Upon flying into Atlanta, a vegetable lover can lay delicious siege from the airport into town. Make no mistake, though: most of the city's best vegetables, cooked with...
Sweet Enough for Birds Southern cuisine includes many famously sweet things, from tea to pralines to sorghum syrup and fried pie. Sweetest of them all is hummingbird cake, a spice...
By the Pint The best thing to eat in Burlington, Vermont, is ice cream: Strafford ice cream from Rock Bottom Farm, ginger flavor in particular. We buy it by the...
What is Frogmore Stew Frogmore Stew is a good-time meal served at picnics, parties, and political rallies throughout South Carolina, especially in the Low Country. The hearty jumble of shrimp,...
There's Nothing Quite like Kentucky Mutton Following the barbecue trail west of Louisville along the Ohio River and south towards the Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky Mutton is king of...
Signature Pizza The Lackawanna County of Old Forge has a signature dish that is perhaps the strangest style of American pizza. Bearing scant resemblance to the familiar Neapolitan formula, Old...
The Origin For the best White Clam pizza in Connecticut, you should first head to New Haven. Some consider it the pizza capital of the universe. Clam pizza first appeared...
King of the South Cracklins rule throughout the South. They are the star ingredient in many cornbreads; they are fantastic strewn into a barbecue sandwich at Perry’s Pig in Augusta,...
A Day in San Diego San Diego is where fish tacos first got popular in this country, and there are none better than at The Cottage up in La Jolla,...
Texas Hots in New York Texas hots do not exist in Texas. Unique to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the curiously addictive franks were first created a century ago...
What's Pork Roll? A New Jersey inamorata little known beyond state borders, pork roll, aka Taylor Ham, is pink like baloney but rugged-textured like salami. It contains enough sugar that...
Food-Filled Day Indianapolis once was known for its superb cafeterias, and there is one glowing legacy of that fact, southwest of town: the magnificent Gray Brothers Cafeteria, where a dozen...
Best Kringle in Wisconsin Only a few states have officially named a state pastry. Maine's is Whoopie Pie; Connecticut's is the snickerdoodle cookie; Texas has two: the sopaipilla and strudel....
Unique Regional Dishes After 40 years and 5 million miles spent on the road looking for America's best regional food, we've assembled a list of the quintessential, must-eat food in...
Chicken Vesuvio is served nowhere outside of Chicago, and even many Chicagoans are unaware of it. A dish of sautéed and baked, bone-in, skin-on parts of chicken and wedges...
An awe-inspiring specialty of Midwest dairy country, sour cream raisin pie is a powerhouse that balances sweet custard and sour cream, flaky crust and silky filling, the concentrated intensity...
Originally marketed in 1897 to compete with granula, which was the predecessor to granola, Grape-Nuts is an unlikely fun dessert. But in the world of Yankee cookery, the little...
Interstate 80 is the most efficient East-West route between New Jersey and San Francisco, but long stretches of it are a culinary wasteland. Not Iowa, where memorable heartland eats...
Of the Steel City's many claims to culinary fame, nothing is more inviting than its abundance of European restaurants. These range from the humble, take-out only Pierogies Plus (in...
In the Dairy State, great cream pies are a given. Abundant cherry and apple trees mean outstanding fruit pies as well. In short, Wisconsin is pie paradise, home of...
Even if you are not in town for the annual Iowa State Fair, which offers days worth of good food, Des Moines is a city of eating opportunities far...
It is not quite right that deep-dish pie gets all the attention when it comes to Chicago pizza. Yes, the forkworthy casserole-style pizza was first created in Chicago, in...
Which is America's #1 pie state? Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Maine all are contenders, but we're tempted to give the nod to Arkansas. Cream pies and fruit pies, baked...
The muffaletta is as much a symbol of New Orleans sandwichery as the po boy. Central Grocery claims to have invented it. Like the Vietnamese Banh-Mi, its name reflects...
In the states where they are popular, Dixie dogs are not known as Dixie dogs. They are called slaw dogs or simply hot dogs. But because they originated in...
Long before the apotheosis of food trucks, Chicago was a city where a person could eat extremely well without picking up a knife and fork. Here is a day's...
Santa Fe's bounty of good food merits at least a week of eating ... or two or three weeks, or more. But let's say you have just one day...
Restaurant El Charro, which dates back to the 1920s, says the Topopo Salad was invented by founder Monica Flinn, who was so impressed when she saw the Mexican volcano...
The Ocean State is known for seafood. It also happens to be chicken-dinner country. (The Rhode Island Red Hen is the official state bird.) All around Woonsocket, in the...
Early in the 20th century, settlers from Italy came to the north central part of West Virginia to work coal mines, railroads, and farms. Their legacy is a bounty...
Twenty-eight states have an official state drink. For several in dairy country, it is milk. In California, it is wine; in Maine, Moxie; in Indiana, water. Dine around Rhode...
When Russians of German ancestry settled the Nebraska Midlands over a century ago, they brought with them recipes for a unique meat pie. A bun of soft bread dough...
Yes, Tulsa. While not a culinary lodestar on the level of New Orleans or Santa Fe, T-Town is a Roadfood bonanza. Breakfast on elegant pain perdu or house-made granola...
One day to taste St. Louis's best Roadfood? Not counting the enigmatic St. Paul (an egg foo yung sandwich sold in Chinese restaurants), toasted ravioli (which has gone national),...
A Utah scone bears little resemblance to the dense biscuit that originally was English but has become a familiar morning pastry at coffee houses everywhere. It is a true...
A favorite snack among grizzly bears as well as humans, huckleberries grow in the high mountains of the Great Plains and ripen in late summer. They are similar to...
Seattle beckons to anyone in search of great seafood, Asian fare, breakfast, donuts, or coffee. In addition to those well-known assets, the Emerald City also is a treasure-trove of...
Augusta, Georgia, is a destination city for anyone who loves Deep South barbecue. In the city and around it, that means pork, hereabouts served with hash on rice and...
Throughout New York City, countless storefront joints sell pizza by the slice; and some of it is pretty good. But if you are looking for a whole pizza pie...
Eating Charlotte's best could take a few weeks; but if you've got a single day to taste the Queen City's quintessential Roadfood, here is the cream of the crop. Amelie's...
New Orleans has 101 great places to eat. Maybe 1001. We wouldn't want to visit without a porky meal at Cochon Butcher or a po boy at the Parkway...
Both Savannah and Charleston are culinary Meccas; between them is a paradise of good eats. Meandering up the coast, have breakfast at Blackstone's Cafe (shrimp & grits, please!) and...
Not that there's anything wrong with a Jucy Lucy inside-out cheeseburger at Matt's Bar or a silver butterknife steak at Murray's, but when we think of Minneapolis, we think...
Wisconsin is the Dairy State, which means a worthy Milwaukee eating plan must include creamy custard (at the vintage drive-in Leon's) and a butter burger lunch (at Solly's Grille)....
Did you know that South Carolina produces more peaches than Georgia? Route 23 through Aiken and Saluda Counties takes you alongside endless orchards where the sunshine-sweet fruit thrives and...
The Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico is chile central, where the best are grown and where the hot pod is enjoyed at every meal. If you want to...
Connecticut did not invent pizza, but a good argument can be made that Connecticut perfected it. The evidence is in New Haven, on Wooster Street, home of Frank Pepe...
Among the countless Mexican restaurants in Tucson, these five give the best feel for the amazing range of styles and specialties, from the outlandish Sonoran hot dogs at El...
Fried chicken used to be considered comfort food, but in recent years, a handful of Nashville restaurants have made it the most delicious discomfort food imaginable. All the restaurants...
Vermont just might be the nation's number-one breakfast state. Early-to-rise farmhouse hours, a high wholegrain consciousness, and the legendary maple syrup harvest equal superior stacks of flapjacks. Consider also...
Twelve champion chocolatiers, from the Oregon coast to downeast Maine.
Why is brunch so wonderful? One, it almost always includes adult beverages. Two, it's far more bountiful than either breakfast or lunch. Three, there's no hurry to eat it:...
The term diner has come to mean almost any inexpensive cafe that serves breakfast. But true diners are an elite class of eatery. They are mid 20th century design...
For some passionate eaters, a great cafeteria can be a source of tremendous anxiety. How on earth can a person choose from among dozens and dozens of good-looking desserts,...
First, we apologize to the Stockholm Pie Company in Wisconsin, to Nick's Kitchen in Huntington, Indiana, to the Bang Bang Pie Shop in Chicago, and to Beardsley Cider Mill...
There are few pleasures in life more sensuously delicious than sinking teeth into a perfectly ripe peach to let its juicy, sugared sunshine flood over taste buds. Because their...
The only possible happy exclamation incited by corned beef hash spooned from a can is "Arf!" But freshly chopped and sizzled to a crisp, crowned with poached eggs eager...
From the street corners of Memphis through the Mississippi Delta, tamales are sold in eateries of every kind. There is no clear explanation for the ubiquity of a Mexican...
It's a Roadfood thrill to find a memorable meal in a place that looks like an irredeemable dive. No state has so many such treasures as Mississippi, where some...
Every deli serves a roast beef sandwich, but a handful of U.S. restaurants make roast beef sandwiches that go beyond mere lunch meat on bread. The most memorable are...
Of the many eating tours Roadfood.com has sponsored to delicious destinations around the U.S., one of the happiest was a restaurant crawl through Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Here...
One morning at the turn of the last century, Lemuel Benedict shuffled into New York's Waldorf Hotel looking for a dish to cure his hangover. He asked for poached...
The northeast has four main kinds of clam chowder. Manhattan is tomato-red and full of vegetables, rarely served northeast of New York City. South Coast, a specialty of Connecticut...
Donut devotion as fervid as the commitment devotees have for barbecue. Everybody has a favorite kind. From robust cake sinkers to featherweight glazed, styles vary dramatically. In our experience,...
Migas is one of the nation's great regional breakfasts. It is a Tex-Mex scramble of eggs along with broken-up tortillas that range from crunchy to cornbread-soft, and it also...
It would be crazy to travel through the South and eat only banana pudding, but every place that serves it at its best precedes it with an excellent well-rounded...
"Drive-in" has come to mean just about any cheap-eats restaurant with car-friendly parking. A genuine drive-in is a place where customers park and are waited on and eat in...
Chili is like DNA: everybody's is different. Texans claim (rightfully) that history proves theirs to be the first. Or at least they were the first to make a big...
To quench ferocious thirst (non-alcoholically), few beverages are as welcome as horchata. A rice milk that varies from saki-thin to milk shake-thick, served on ice and dusted with cinnamon,...
Traveling along Florida's Forgotten Coast is a reminder of what the Sunshine State was like several million inhabitants ago. The drive is unspoiled two-lane magic -- blue Gulf waters...
Of the hundred five-star barbecue parlors around the U.S.A. this dozen is the crème de la crème. .
Every diner, town cafe, and truck stop sells a hot turkey sandwich. A precious few are memorable and as delicious as the best Thanksgiving leftovers. They include plenty of...
The pasty (say pass-tee, not pay-stee) began as a portable stew – meat and vegetables sealed inside a pastry crust -- that Michigan miners from Cornwall carried with them...
We Americans love our hamburgers, at home and on the road. From mischievous fried sliders to majestic beef pillows oozing juice over coals, burgers are a birthright coast to...
Oklahoma hamburgers are some of the best in the nation. No state can claim more -- and more interesting -- different styles. El Reno, just west of Oklahoma City,...
No matter how delicious it may be, cole slaw always plays second fiddle. When visiting whole hog barbecue parlors in North Carolina, the curious eater will encounter a handful...
Huevos Rancheros, which means ranch-style eggs, once was an exotic dish that U.S. travelers found only in the southern border-state cafes. With the burgeoning popularity of Mexican food --...
Pancakes are especially appreciated by travelers in search of significant breakfast. While fair to middling ones are on the menu virtually everywhere, restaurants that serve four-star flapjacks are rare....
Indian pudding is one of New England’s fundamental comfort foods. Despite its name, it is not a native American dish adapted by colonist cooks. Early settlers considered just about...
Grits can be a watery white side dish to fill out a plate of eggs, or they can be the creamiest, earthiest, most delicious corn cereal imaginable. The addition...
Steamy hot, soft and supple, perfumed by spice and smoke, infused with the dripping succulence of animal fat, pastrami is the most voluptuous of delicatessen meats. Great pastrami sandwiches...
Key lime pie is the official state pie of Florida. Once unique to the coral islands at the southernmost end of Route One, the sweet-tart, pale yellow dessert is...
Bologna sandwiches are common. Great bologna sandwiches are rare. The very best of them, in particular the one served at the legendary G&R Tavern of Waldo, Ohio, are worthy...
Fritos were created in San Antonio in 1932, but it took some thirty years before the Frito pie was born. Teresa Hernandez, working behind the Woolworth's lunch counter in...
Unique to northernmost Maine, the ploye is a buckwheat pancake cooked only on one side. Its underneath gets crisp while the top stays soft and develops countless little holes...
Granola first was invented in the 1860s (not the 1960s) and eaten by health nuts of the day. It was a severe dish made from nothing but double-baked sheets...
If there were nothing to eat along Oregon's North Coast from Lincoln City to the Columbia River, we'd still come here for its natural beauty. No superlatives exist to...
Crumb-topped, lattice-topped, or layered with caramel and welcoming a scoop of ice cream on top, apple pie is everywhere from coast to coast. For your pleasure, a baker's dozen...
Sopaipillas are are made from dough that is rolled out very thin, cut into small sections, then tossed into boiling oil, preferably lard. The lard makes the pieces of...
Even before Calvin Trillin declared Arthur Bryant's to be "possibly the single best restaurant in the world" in a 1974 Playboy magazine article, Kansas City was famous for barbecue....
Although ice cream tends to be more butterfatty, frozen custard tastes richer because it traditionally is made with egg yolks. Even when eggs are not part of the formula,...
Goetta, which rhymes with feta, is as much a Cincinnati signature dish as five-way chili. A distant relative of scrapple, it is a loaf of pork mixed with steel-cut...
Many restaurants serve steak, but some places are dedicated to it. Although no great steak house is cheap, some of the best are extremely informal (like Doe's Eat Place...
Columbia, South Carolina gave birth to the pimento cheeseburger in the 1960s. It happened at a long-gone restaurant called the dairy bar, run by J.C. Reynolds. (In fact, some...
South Carolina is a magnificent barbecue state with diverse regional styles. Heading north by northwest from the coast, you'll eat red-sauced, mustard-sauced, and minimally-sauced pork. Hash on rice accompanies...
There's no point getting into a flame war over which American hot dog is best. It's impossible, because the nation's hot dogs are so diverse. However, we will go...
Fried chicken is popular all across America and so different everywhere that it is not possible to say what city, state, or region does it best. While the process...
The Phoenix restaurant scene is white hot. New, creative, cutting-edge, top-dollar restaurants open all the time. What about those of us who prefer less pretentious eats and casual meals?...
It is good to wake up early in Sedona, Arizona, for that is when the sun's first rays make the monumental rock formations around the city glow magic red....
When barbecue migrated up the Mississippi from its homes in the Deep South and in Texas, it took on a new personality -- similar to what happened to the...
At their best, made from roasted chilies that still have muscular vegetable walls, stuffed with cream-rich molten cheese and haloed in a coat of featherweight batter fried to a...
While the old-time boarding house is history, boarding house meals remain a highlight of eating one's way through the south. Seating usually is communal: friends, family, and strangers gathered...
As any patriotic Texan is happy to tell you, chili con carne means chili with meat. It does not include beans, peppers, or other vegetables, and such add-ons as...
Lima beans are known everywhere, loved mostly in the South, and a signature dish of Charleston, South Carolina. Soul food cooks simmer the khaki-colored pods with plenty of pork,...
A donut’s very shape is satisfying. It is complete, a whole circle, nice to lift and easy to dunk. Almost any recently-made donut from a national chain offers the...
There are few desserts simpler than basic chess pie and, when it's made right, nothing better. A congress of eggs, butter and sugar with a dash of cornmeal and...
When people think of good corned beef sandwiches, they tend to envision New York, or maybe Miami or Los Angeles. But in fact, the Midwest's best corned beef sandwiches,...
The turtle sundae is not unique to the heartland. Its sublime combination of crisp nuts, hot fudge and caramel sauce atop vanilla ice cream can be found from coast...
A trip south from the Metroplex starting with a legendary hamburger, a visit to the town that put sweet kolaches on the map, through Hill Country pie palaces and...
It seems logical that the Lone Star State's favorite comfort food, chicken-fried steak, traces its heritage back to central European immigrant cooks who found themselves in Texas but without...
Brunswick Stew is a fundamental side dish for barbecue in Georgia and beyond. Originally made as a hunter's gallimaufry using whatever critters had been bagged and whatever vegetables were...
In the late 19th century, Gordonsville, Virginia was known as the Chicken Leg Center of the Universe because the town's "chicken ladies" used to stand on the train platform...
Snail salad is ubiquitous in the Ocean State. It is on Italian menus, seafood menus, and chicken dinner hall menus, a spotlight hors d'oeuvre at waterside picnic shacks as...
Along the Northeast's Atlantic coast, the term "shore dinner" doesn't just mean some seafood on a plate. Descendant of Algonquin clambakes in which clams and corn were layered in...
Few eats stir Yankee passions more intensely than fried clams. Most devoted clamophiles insist on whole belly clams (the big gooey ones), and while clam strips do tend to...
The Friday night fish fry is so popular in Milwaukee that it is rare to find a restaurant that does not have one. From Benji's Deli to the Bya...
There are many Cuban sandwiches in Florida, and many opinions about exactly which ingredients one should contain, the primary point of contention being Genoa salami. Most Cubans in Tampa,...
From the German word "kummel," meaning caraway seed, and weck, meaning roll, a kummelweck, or simply "weck,"resembles a Kaiser roll. But bakers crown it with a mantle of seeds...
Although it isn't shaped like one, this is our kind of food pyramid, containing protein in the form of meat and cheese, vegetables (green chile and maybe onions, too),...
A handful of sandwich shops in and around Newark, New Jersey, specialize in the cornucopic frankfurter known as an Italian hot dog. A double (the only way to go)...
Cinnamon rolls can be found almost everywhere, but no state has better (and bigger) ones than Iowa.
Chicago is a Hot Dog City Frankfurter historians believe the Chicago red hot (aka hot dog) was first configured in 1929. Abe "Fluky" Drexler first served it at the street...
Massachusetts north of Boston is rightfully known for excellent seafood, but it also is a source of fantastic roast beef sandwiches. They are a passion in this area, served...
Made from a cured and smoked brisket, the smoked meat of Quebec is a cousin of the pastrami found in U.S. delis. It is luxuriously fatty, packed with spice,...
There are good and interesting eats all along Route 66, from Chicago to San Berdoo. Oklahoma is especially well-endowed with restaurants that deliver good southwestern meals along with Mother...
There are excellent tenderloins in Indiana, and some in Illinois, but no state has as many great ones as Iowa. By tenderloin, we don't mean a roast that requires...
Following U.S. 41 beside the cobalt-blue calm of Lake Superior, then wending up the Keweenaw Peninsula through a blaze of October leaves to Copper Harbor where the highway ends,...
Eating around Fall River, Massachusetts, is like eating in a foreign country, and we don't only mean that the Portuguese food is outstanding. (Half the population is of Portuguese...
In this land of boundless cornfields, crunch-crusted fried chicken is a magnificent obsession in restaurants plain and fancy. Locals sometimes call it tavern fried chicken because nearly every restaurant...
Sandwiched between Montana and Washington state, Idaho’s panhandle stretches from the wheat-gold hills of a fertile table called the Palouse to the green timbered mountains of British Columbia. Ancestral...
There are so many good places to eat in Tucson, it can be tough to leave; but if you head southwest, through Sierra Vista and on to Douglas, there...
Whether it includes pork or not, Oregon chowder always is plush and luxurious -- usually more substantial than even creamy New England style chowder. A large bowl of it,...
Orlando connotes corporate-fabricated fun, but hungry visitors can explore another kind of magic kingdom: a realm of miraculously good soul food. Here is a cache of personality-plus restaurants where...
Few of the memorable dishes one encounters at the casse-croûtes (snack bars) of Quebec, between the Laurentians and the Gaspé Peninsula, are notably exotic. There's poutine, of course (French...
There's no neighborhood in America more appetite-friendly than Pittsburgh's Strip. Groceries of every sort, restaurants of every continent, stand-up snacks and sit-down meals abound. It's all within a few...
If you visit Los Angeles from the East and have a stubborn circadian rhythm governor that has you awake and hungry in the middle of the night, prepare to...
Texans, read no further! Cincinnati chili is nothing like a bowl of red. Each serving starts with a bed of well-cooked spaghetti noodles. On top of them goes ground...
Close cousin of Rhode Island's New York System and Coney Island hot dogs everywhere, the Michigan hot dog is a small frankfurter in a soft bun topped with vividly...
New York system hot dogs are unique to Rhode Island: little weenies in little buns dressed with ultrafine-grind chili sauce, mustard and onions, plus a sprinkle of celery salt....
Technically, the horseshoe belongs to the open-face sandwich category. But its size and scope create a category all its own. Cooks pile lunch and supper shoes with hamburgers, pork...
How It's Made To make a steamed cheeseburger, restaurants use a special steam cabinet. Into it they put little trays, some with fistfuls of ground beef, others with hunks of...
The barbecue belt of central Texas: east of I-35 and north of I-10 where brisket, prime rib, and beef sausage are cooked in the haze of oak smoke slow...
Rating and ranking famous Philly cheese steaks is a an obsession in Philadelphia. Differing styles of steak make it all the more interesting. Cooks make traditional versions with thin...
Crab cakes are a staple of seafood restaurants everywhere. But the great ones are in proximity to the Chesapeake Bay. Many places here offer them deep-fried, and there is...
Green corn tamales, so named because they are wrapped in fresh green husks rather than dry, beige ones, used to be seasonal, available only at the end of summer...
There is no Minorcan chowder on the island of Minorca, nor anywhere else we know other than Florida's northeast coast, where almost all of the world's datil peppers are...
Everybody knows Buffalo for its chicken wings. Many love its beef on weck. To that formidable duo, add candy. No city has more compelling sweet shops. Family-run confectioners, large...
There is plenty of yummy comfort food in Nashville, from buttermilk biscuits in the morning to banana pudding for dessert; but one of the Music City's lesser known culinary...
Of all the great sandwich cities in America, New Orleans is at or near the top. Home of the muffaletta, the po boy, and the oyster loaf, it is...
You can dine high on the hog in the sophisticated downtown restaurants of Charleston, South Carolina; you also can feast low, on pig tails and neck bones larded into...
More New-World than Old-Country, the Italian beef sandwich was invented on Chicago's near West Side and it has become a city signature dish as beloved as red hots. It...
West of New Orleans from Baton Rouge to St. Charles and from the swamps of Avery Island to the prairies of Evangeline Parish, hundreds of places sell boudin sausage....
Why Call a Food Loosemeats? Loosemeats has all kinds of aliases, including tavern, Tastee, Big T, and Charlie Boy. Whatever you call it, loosemeats is similar to sloppy Joe, but...
The Sonoran hot dog, most flamboyant of America's wieners, starts as a simple beef frank. The cook wraps it in bacon and grills it in a trough alongside other...
