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Restaurants
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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Excellent | Worth a Detour
B&E Burritos
Don’t miss B&E Burritos for tender tamales and the best burritos stuffed with flavorful red and green chile ... with a kick.
Memorable | One of the Best
Bailey’s Smokehouse
True BBQ in New York. Ribs, brisket, pulled pork and chorizo sausage are slow-smoked to a point of extreme succulence. Of side dishes, the best is corn souffle.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Big Chick
Big-crusted fried chicken stars at Big Chick, a take-out-only roadside stand, where all side dishes are fried, too: onions, okra, hush puppies and corn balls.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Bruce’s Bar and Grill | Square Meals & Cold Beer
A locals' favorite tavern on the old Augusta Road, Bruce's is known for big fresh burgers, house-made chips for loaded nachos, Sunday supper, and a full bar.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Busy Bee Cafe
Busy Bee Café is one of Atlanta's best soul food restaurants. Try fried chicken sided by southern vegetables; save room for red velvet cake dessert.
Atlanta, GA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Cafe 209
Locals love this downtown Augusta, Georgia, lunch-only meat-and-3 for vivid southern vegetables, fried chicken, pork chops, Wednesday ribs and Friday catfish.
Augusta, GA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Carmelcorn Shop
Carmelcorn Shop is a modest store on the square in Easton, Pennsylvania, serving the lightest caramel corn we've ever had, tasting more of corn than candy.
Easton, PA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Charlie the Butcher
Charlie the Butcher serves Buffalo's unique beef on weck sandwich at its best, plus a wide variety of excellent butcher-block specialties.
Memorable | One of the Best
Clifton Mill: A Homemade Breakfast Not to Miss
Clifton Mill offers a country menu of corn meal mush, buckwheat cakes, rugged-textured sausage, & biscuits the size of softballs, with creamy sausage gravy.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Dave’s Carry-Out
Dave's is a small carry-out restaurant specializing in fried shrimp and serving dinner long after other Charleston restaurants have closed.
Charleston, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Billed as a "Genuine Honkey Tonk Rib Joint", New York's Dinosaur offers Americana in the form of BBQ and blues music. Don't forget Syracuse-style salt potatoes.
New York, NY
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Dog Daze Cafe
In this Connecticut al fresco drive-in, casual eats are made with culinary savoir fare. Dog Daze burgers and specialty hot dogs are creative wonders.
Memorable | One of the Best
Dorado Tacos & Cemitas
Mexican food in New England is blah ... unless it’s from Dorado. This bright eatery specializes in the cemita, a layered sandwich popular in southern Mexico.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Eden Alley
Kansas City's superb vegetarian restaurant, Eden Alley is a big, open dining room staffed with people for whom The Right Food is a mission. * CLOSED *
Memorable | One of the Best
Frances’ Deli
Frances' offers both Jewish deli food and modern comfort cuisine. Breakfast can be homemade blintzes. Tall sandwiches and matzo ball soup are lunch features.
Chicago, IL
Excellent | Worth a Detour
French Meadow
America's first certified organic bakery (since '85), French Meadow offers such nutritionally virtuous dishes as crunchy granola & chocolate vegan turtle cake.
Minneapolis, MN
Memorable | One of the Best
Fuel City Tacos
A Dallas convenience store, gas station and beer depot, Fuel City offers delicious, inexpensive tacos. Dining facilities are just a few picnic tables outside.
Dallas, TX
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
George & Pink
A vegetable stand as folksy as can be, George & Pink reflects the effulgent year-around harvest of Edisto Island, from melons & squash to sunshiny tomatoes.
Memorable | One of the Best
Green Gables | Smashed Crispyburger On Illinois Route 66
Green Gables is a middle-of-nowhere tavern / grocery store / restaurant serving central Illinois' scrumptious smashed crispyburger.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Hawk’s Crawfish
Proudly “in the middle of nowhere,” Hawk's is a roadhouse destination for pristine purged crawfish, boiled in delicate spices. Great shrimp, too!
Memorable | One of the Best
JC’s Seafood
Hail the Low Country boil! JC's makes it with seafood from the coast along with succulent sausage, corn, and potatoes, all veiled in one of 3 degrees of spice.
Aiken, SC
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Jenkins Quality Barbecue
Jenkins is an urban soul-food barbecue famous for its thick, very spicy sauce -- especially excellent dressing for its barbecued chickens.
Jacksonville, FL
Memorable | One of the Best
Junior’s
** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED **
This taste of Brooklyn in Grand Central Station offers corned beef and pastrami sandwiches, Reubens, and, of course, the legendary cheesecake.
New York, NY
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Kingsman Que & Brew
Outstanding burgers, smoke-cooked meats, and a menu of eats that go well with beer ... ** CLOSED **
Lexington, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
La Fiesta Cafe
A top Mexican restaurant in the border town of Douglas, Arizona, La Fiesta Cafe is a friendly, family-run operation with especially good enchiladas.
Douglas, AZ
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Leno’s Clam Bar
Formally named Leno's Clam Bar (never called that by anybody), Greasy Nick's is reminiscent of a New England clam shack, but with city grit. Burgers are best.
Memorable | One of the Best
Lerua’s Fine Mexican Food
Since 1922, Lerua's has been a Tucson, Arizona, best bet for traditional Sonoran Mexican dishes, including topopo salad and green corn tamales. *CLOSED*
Tucson, AZ
Memorable | One of the Best
Little Tea Shop
A vintage lunch room on old Cotton Row, Little Tea Shop is a Memphis experience all food lovers should have, from pot likker to fudge-topped frozen pecan balls.
Memphis, TN
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Lorelei Restaurant & Cabana Bar
A huge wooden mermaid at mile marker 82 signals Lorelei’s Cabana Bar, a place to watch the sunset, drink Key lime piña coladas, & enjoy fresh coconut shrimp.
Memorable | One of the Best
Los Jarritos
Los Jarritos is a 12th Avenue cafe where Tucsonians come to eat and chat and enjoy traditional Sonoran fare from green corn tamales to hangover-cure menudo.
Tucson, AZ
Memorable | One of the Best
M & M Soul Food Cafe
M&M is a modest, downhome soul food restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada: fried chicken with highly seasoned crust, succulent pork chops and pancake-style cornbread.
Las Vegas, NV
Memorable | One of the Best
Marie’s BBQ House
A north Alabama destination in Heflin just off Interstate 20, Marie's serves some of the best smoke-cooked meats and a cornucopia of Dixie favorite side dishes.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Martin’s
Martin's serves meat & 3 at its best: great fried chicken, vegetables galore, plus pies that are the pride of Montgomery, Alabama.
Montgomery, AL
Memorable | One of the Best
Mastoris
Mastoris is a gigantic diner with a gigantic menu of gigantic portions of food. Have some New Jersey pork roll for breakfast. *CLOSED*
Memorable | One of the Best
Matthews Cafeteria
Matthews Cafeteria is a Main Street restaurant popular among locals who come for fried chicken, meat loaf, or catfish sided by well-cooked Southern vegetables.
Memorable | One of the Best
Moody’s Restaurant
Moody's Restaurant is a Northern Louisiana destination for a memorable meat-and-three meal, followed by a dessert of homemade pie or cobbler.
Memorable | One of the Best
Noriega Hotel
A pillar of the California Basque community in Bakersfield, Noriega Hotel is an old boarding house that still serves three family-style meals a day.
Bakersfield, CA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Off Da Chain Seafood & Mo
Fine fried seafood plus crab legs, pork chops, chicken wings, burgers and "Mo," make Off Da Chain a colorful, unique destination. ** CLOSED **
Aiken, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
Opie’s BBQ
A family eatery in the small town of Spicewood, Opie's is a Hill Country best: no-frills BBQ for which people drive miles away from Austin.
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 *
Good | Worth a Return
Pappy’s Smokehouse
St. Louis' hugely popular BBQ with a checked-tablecloth rustic theme, Pappy's serves a full array of smoke-cooked ribs, pork, beef and classic side dishes.
St. Louis, MO
Memorable | One of the Best
Parker’s
Parker's is a legendary BBQ restaurant that is also known for superb fried chicken. It's a convenient stop off I-95 in Wilson, North Carolina.
Wilson, NC
Memorable | One of the Best
S&S Cafeteria
A grand cafeteria in the southern tradition, Augusta's S&S offers a vast array of classic comfort food from Sunday-supper baked chicken to beguiling desserts.
Augusta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Sand Dollar Cafe
Southern comfort food served cafeteria style makes the Sand Dollar Cafe a Florida "Forgotten Coast" best bet for breakfast as well as lunch.
Port St. Joe, FL
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Sarge’s Delicatessen
Sarge's Delicatessen is a Murray Hill New York destination for first-rate pastrami sided by gorgeous chunky French fries. Sarge's is open 24/7.
New York, NY
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Sgt. White’s Diner
A humble restaurant near Paris Island, Sgt. White's offers excellent BBQ along with such fine sides as mac 'n' cheese, smothered cabbage, and cornbread.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Shalhoob’s Funk Zone Patio
Shalhoob's Funk Zone Patio is a Santa Barbara butcher shop that expanded into a full outdoor bar and grill serving great burgers and tri-tip.
Santa Barbara, CA
Memorable | One of the Best
Sisters and Brothers
Nashville-style hot fried chicken rules at Seattle's Sisters and Brothers, where spice levels go all the way to "insane." Good sandwiches & side dishes, too.
Seattle, WA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Sparky’s
In Hatch, New Mexico (chile capital of the world), Sparky's serves fine green chile cheeseburgers as well as chile-powered steaks, milk shakes, and lemonade.
Memorable | One of the Best
Taqueria El Patron
From-scratch Mexican cooking makes Taqueria El Patron an Augusta destination restaurant for exemplary tacos, burritos & flautas as well as grand chicken mole.
Augusta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Taylor’s Bar-B-Que
BBQ plus a meat-and-three cafeteria make Taylor's a country-cooking destination (open at 4:30am) in the Bird Dog Capital of the World.
Waynesboro, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Teresa’s Mosaic Cafe
While enjoying Teresa's scrumptious Mexican breakfasts (some of Tucson, Arizona's best) you can watch tortillas being hand-formed and griddle-cooked.
Tucson, AZ
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Terry Black’s BBQ
Terry Black's is a best bet for delicious barbecue smoked daily in downtown Austin, Texas.
Austin, TX
Memorable | One of the Best
The Place
The Place is a virtual picnic by Route 1 in Guilford, Connecticut. Chairs are tree stumps. Clams, lobsters & roast corn are delicious. BYOB.
Guilford, CT
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Thunderbird Restaurant
Southern Utah’s most recognizable motel diner, the Thunderbird is famous for its Ho-Made Pie sign and for Utah-style scones with honey butter.
Memorable | One of the Best
Una Mas Taqueria
Fresh ingredients, bright flavors, and low prices make Aiken, South Carolina's quick & casual Una Mas Taqueria a Mexican restaurant to treasure.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Upperline
Modern Creole fare at Upperline includes fried green tomatoes with shrimp remoulade and Cane River shrimp is served in a sauce of bacon, mushrooms and garlic.
New Orleans, LA
Memorable | One of the Best
Victory Sandwich Bar
Don’t call the $4 sandwiches at Victory sliders. They’re so much more, served in a gorgeous open-air spot with magical popcorn & ramen, fresh salads & spiked soda.
Atlanta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Villager’s
Toasted po boys put Villager's ("Louisiana's Best-Kept Secret") on the good-eats map of Cajun country. Pot roast and meatballs are superb.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Wade’s Restaurant
Legendary meat-&-3 destination since 1947, Wade's draws Spartanburg crowds for well-priced, very-Southern vegetables, fried chicken, & motherly dinner rolls.
