A hot hamburger is this restaurant’s best item: toast topped with a hacked-up burger, French fries and dark beef gravy. Murphy’s is a fine Oklahoma destination.
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Restaurants
Hob Nob Hill
Hob Nob Hill of San Diego is the great Southern California coffee shop, serving three square meals a day with grace and hospitality. Must eat: morning pastries!
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Shealy’s Bar-B-Que
Shealy’s is the #1 BBQ in central South Carolina, a buffet-style feast that includes pork and pulley bones and countless southern classic sides.
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Lange’s Café
Roast beef at Lange’s in Pipestone, Minnesota is a North Country must. Sour cream raisin pie is best of the Midwest, crowned with airlight meringue. Open 24/7.
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Jesse’s Embers
Jesse’s Embers of Des Moines, Iowa, cooks steaks on a delicious-smelling charcoal grill and serves it with great onion rings and expertly-made cocktails.
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Cold Hollow Cider Mill
Cold Hollow is known for fresh-pressed cider and cider donuts. It also sells Vermont cheeses, breads, and, of course, maple syrup.
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Amish Oven
Despite its name, the Amish Oven serves traditional Deep South meat-and-three meals, including excellent side dishes, plus cobbler, pie and pudding for dessert.
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Bartley’s Bar-B-Q
First-class Texas BBQ just minutes from DFW airport. Bartley’s serves tender smoked meats along with excellent side dishes and knock-out cobbler for dessert.
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Sarah’s
Serving familiar Mexican food in Billings, Montana, Sarah’s makes excellent taquitos and a huge smothered beef burrito loaded with big hunks of meat.
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Harmon’s Lunch
Falmouth, Maine: Harmon’s hamburgers are lunch counter patties par excellence, sizzled on a seasoned old griddle. French fries are super, too.
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