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Roadfood restaurants aren't only about good food. They are places with memorable personality: diners, town cafes, BBQs, street carts, even some deluxe dining rooms.

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Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Alcenia’s

Alcenia's is a warm, friendly Memphis, Tennessee, restaurant serving homey soul food meat-and-3 meals that end with glorious pies or bread pudding.

Armando’s | Cheeseburgers & Catfish Suppers | Chattanooga

A Chattanooga hidden treasure, Armando's is known for the city's favorite bacon cheeseburgers & catfish suppers at their best.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Arnold’s Country Kitchen

Arnold's is one of the best restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee, for a meat and 3 meal, from fried chicken and veggies to chocolate pie and banana pudding.

Bacchanal

At a quiet corner of Bywater, New Orleans' Bacchanal draws easygoing crowds hungry for good food, live music, and camaraderie.

Backyard Cafe

The Backyard Cafe is a destination for handsome hamburgers, after-5pm Dixie dinner & from-scratch ice cream atop squares of gooey butter cake.

Barrow’s Catfish

A reborn version of a city classic, Barrow’s made its name on golden-fried catfish, but now it also makes a full menu of other New Orleans fish house classics.

Beamie’s at the River | Seafood & Drinks | Augusta, GA

Just yards from the Augusta Riverfront, Beamie's is a casual eat-house popular among locals for southern seafood & drinks.

Bear’s Den

The Bear’s Den of Macon, Georgia, is a small cafeteria that serves Southern as well as all-American comfort food. Fried chicken is always on the menu.

Big T’s Seafood Restaurant

Expertly fried seafood stars on Big T's menu, which also includes traditional low-country boil, crab legs, & grilled fish. A hidden-gem detour off I-20.

Memorable | One of the Best

Blue & White Restaurant

If you are looking for quality Southern food at reasonable prices along old Route 61 near Tunica, Mississippi, Blue & White is treasure.

Memorable | One of the Best

Bolton’s Spicy Chicken & Fish

Bolton's hot chicken is four-alarm HOT, more spicy than it is salty. Each bite is a taste-buds thrill ride. Is it Nashville's best?

Bon Ton

New Orleans meets Vietnam at Atlanta’s Bon Ton, where everything is different, from spicy boiled peanuts to 5-spice shrimp with buttered bread.

Bush’s

A humble seafood restaurant where all kinds of fish are prepared with expertise. On the side: Dixie-best soul-food vegetables.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** For a full, true, and joyous taste of Acadian Louisiana, Cafe des Amis is peerless, from beignets to crawfish, with live Zydeco music for dancing on Saturday.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Charlie’s Fish Market

Aiken's oldest restaurant (since 1909), Charlie's is a fish shack with one big, deep skillet for frying mullet, whiting, and bream. Most business is take-out.

Aiken, SC

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Chef Bob’s Café

Daily downhome buffet lunch and lavish weekend dinner make Chef Bob's a restaurant for big appetites. House motto: "If you leave hungry, it's not my fault!" *CLOSED*

Edgefield, SC

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Crossroads Cafe

From-scratch Southern comfort-food served cafeteria-style in a diner as comfy as favorite slippers makes Crossroads Cafe a good stop for breakfast & lunch.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Daichan

Daichan is a hidden gem along sushi row. Touted as "Japanese Soul Food", the menu includes bowls of hot, steaming comfort foods and the usual sashimi and sushi.

Los Angeles, CA

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Detroit Soul

Detroit Soul is a meat-and-3 cafe on Eight Mile Road specializing in Southern classics during the week and barbecue ribs on Saturday.

Memorable | One of the Best

Dip’s Country Kitchen

We love to start the day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at Mama Dip's restaurant with eggs, pork chops and gravy or country ham, sided by biscuits and grits.

Chapel Hill, NC

Memorable | One of the Best

Dutch House Restaurant and Bakery

A southern cafeteria with such tempting options as fried chicken and catfish plus good side dishes like sweet potato casserole, Dutch House is a Georgia gem.

Memorable | One of the Best

Falls View Restaurant

Jackson, Georgia's Falls View Restaurant serves catfish (whole or filleted) with hushpuppies & French fries or onion rings. Dessert: strawberry shortcake!

Jackson, GA

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Farmers Market Restaurant

Farmer's Market Restaurant is a taste of old Fort Myers, specializing in catfish, Southern vegetables and house-baked pies and dinner rolls.

Memorable | One of the Best

Florida Avenue Grill

A soul-food diner in Washington, DC, the Florida Avenue Grill serves square meals to government glitterati as well as taxi drivers and ordinary folks.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Fratesi Grocery and Service Center

Snuggled into the corner of a gas station near the intersection of highways 61 and 82, Fratesi offers Italian deli meats and Southern plate lunch.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Gary’s Hamburgers

Cooked to order, Gary's serves a drive in burger at its best, plus great catfish and fried chicken. Breakfast biscuits are fine, too.

North Augusta, SC

Memorable | One of the Best

Greenbrier Restaurant

Dine on Greenbrier Restaurant's fried catfish or excellent BBQ pork or chicken in what is a Madison, Alabama, cotton-country old-timer.

Memorable | One of the Best

Huck’s Catfish

Catfish bonanza! Served with pickled tomato relish and slices of raw onion, Huck's fried catfish is a Texas treasure.

Memorable | One of the Best

Joe Tess Place

Joe Tess sells deep-fried carp, crusty and moist. Have it with crunchy disks of fried potato -- a unique, vintage taste of Omaha, Nebraska.

Omaha, NE

Excellent | Worth a Detour

La’wan’s Soul Food Restaurant

Serving such soul food favorites as fried chicken, salmon cakes, catfish, and pork chops, La'wan's has become a Charlotte soul food landmark.

Charlotte, NC

Memorable | One of the Best

Leon’s Poultry & Oyster Shop

Casual, immensely hip and urban-popular, Leon's doesn't lose track of its mission: to serve great Carolina chicken & oysters and lots of beer & wine.

Charleston, SC

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Long Creek Fish Fry

A Gaston County treasure known for big plates of catfish, flounder, shrimp & oysters (with hushpuppies, natch), Long Creek Fish Fry is a Carolina best.

Memorable | One of the Best

Mama’s Oyster House

Seafood galore! Oysters, crab cakes, shrimp, catfish, and alligator vie for attention. If you can't decide, the $23.95 seafood platter gets you some of everything, plush hushpuppies and gumbo.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

MCL Cafeteria

MCL of Richmond, Indiana, is a cafeteria featuring homey vegetables and Jell-O, pies and puddings and cakes galore, and excellent fried chicken and catfish.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Middendorf’s

Catfish made Louisiana's Middendorf's a legend. Thin catfish especially: diaphanous strips lightly breaded and fried. Broiled oysters & shrimp are great.

Memorable | One of the Best

Monell’s

You don't need a southern family to enjoy the southern family dining experience at Monell's. Meals feature kettle-fried chicken, some of Nashville’s best.

Nashville, TN

Good | Worth a Return

Mr. Whisker’s Catfish

Mr. Whiskers is the place to go in Hot Springs for platters of catfish (fried or blackened), shrimp and oysters. Sides include hushpuppies, fries and slaw.

Hot Springs, AR

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Niki’s West

Niki's West is a Greek-accented cafeteria near the Birmingham farmers market. Specialties are seafood and a vast selection of Southern vegetables.

Birmingham, AL

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Palmetto Seafood Bar and Grill

Palmetto Seafood Bar & Grill is a South Carolina fish house serving crab legs, shrimp, and all manner of flatfish. * CLOSED *

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Pinpoint Restaurant

Pinpoint is a Wilmington beacon of high-end farm (and sea)-to-table fare that is original, radiant with flavor, and glossy-magazine beautiful.

Memorable | One of the Best

Prejean’s

Cajun food galore at Prejean's restaurant in Lafayette, Louisiana, including crawfish every which way. Combo platters comer with deep-flavored dirty rice.

Lafayette, LA

Good | Worth a Return

Ruth’s Family Restaurant

A favorite Augusta diner known for breakfast, Ruth's also serves good meat-and-two lunch and desserts made by the waitresses.

Augusta, GA

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Slows BBQ

A full-menu BBQ parlor in the heart of Detroit, Slow's signature is the Triple Threat: applewood smoked bacon, pulled pork, and ham stacked high and mighty.

Detroit, MI

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Smithtown Seafood

The perfect order at chef Ouita Michel’s Smithtown Seafood? Spicy buffalo catfish bites, the crispiest fish ‘n’ chips, and mountains of golden brown French fries.

Good | Worth a Return

T’s Seafood Restaurant

Long hushpuppies and catfish have made T's Seafood Restaurant an Augusta favorite for decades. Don't forget the bountiful "Boat Load Salad Bar." *CLOSED*

Augusta, GA

Memorable | One of the Best

Uncle Larry’s | Chattanooga Catfish Lemon Pepper Style

A Chattanooga hidden gem, Uncle Larry's is a friendly cafe known for superb seafood, lemon-pepper catfish in particular.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

White River Fish Market

A fish market and semi-cafeteria restaurant, White River is a seafood gem in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Have it your way: fried, broiled, or grilled.

Tulsa, OK

Memorable | One of the Best

Whitey’s Fish Camp

All you can eat catfish puts Whitey's on the Florida best-eats map. They're fried whole and brought to the table until you've had your fill.

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