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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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Memorable | One of the Best
Beacon Light Tea Room
Skillet-fried chicken packs wickedly brittle crust at the Beacon Light outside Nashville. Also excellent: hash brown casserole, biscuits and peach preserves.
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.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Big Daddy’s Grill
Big Daddy's serves some of the best fried seafood in south Alabama, next to the Fish River. Those in the know go for the soft shell crabs or crawfish.
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
Cahill’s Chicken Kitchen
Cahill's is a boisterous Bluffton farm-market restaurant with a menu beyond fried chicken, including local oysters and shrimp and a dozen different vegetables.
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.
Good | Worth a Return
Dairy O
Dairy O is a vintage American drive-in serving fully-dressed burgers and hot dogs as well as milk shakes, sodas, and sundaes. Breakfast also is served from 8am.
Memorable | One of the Best
Dink’s Pit Bar-B-Que
A Bartlesville, Oklahoma BBQ, Dink's offers brisket, ribs and pork tenderloin. Décor is pop-culture West: steer horns, barbed wire, pix of cowboys & Indians.
Memorable | One of the Best
Eischen’s Bar
Small-town, dive-bar fried chicken joint an hour out of Oklahoma City, Eischen's is a Roadfood classic. Since 1896.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Fat Man’s Cafe
An Augusta favorite now located in a repurposed industrial complex, Fat Man's offers fine Dixie vegetables along with masterful fried chicken or pot roast.
Augusta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
J.R.’s Ribshack
A humble roadside BBQ with some of the finest chicken and ribs in the Florida panhandle. JR's Brunswick stew is not to be missed.
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
Midway BBQ
A Carolina BBQ meat-&-three restaurant specializing in old-fashioned hash and chicken stew, Midway is a best-bet for all seeking rare, authentic American fare.
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
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Pecan Lodge
In the heart of Dallas' Deep Ellum, Pecan Lodge uses a unique combination of Texas and North Carolina styles to smoke brisket.
Dallas, TX
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Seafood Shack
In this Waynesboro seafood shack, shrimp, whiting, bream, mullet, catfish, and flounder are fried to order and served with spirituals playing in the background.
Waynesboro, GA
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
Memorable | One of the Best
Smith House
The Smith House of Dahlonega, Georgia, serves classic southern food boarding house style. Count on fried chicken, Brunswick stew, catfish and hushpuppies.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Steven’s Barbecue
Steven's is a BBQ dive in genteel downtown Greenwood, Mississippi, featuring Memphis style ribs, Delta hot tamales, and fabulous chocolate cake.
Greenwood, MS
Good | Worth a Return
Sue’s Grill
An ingenuous little diner at the edge of town, Sue's goes the extra mile to serve good burgers, sandwiches, and square meals. Pleasant staff, decent prices.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Van’s Pig Stand
One of the great Southwest BBQs and the pride of Oklahoma! Van's ribs are superb, as is the pig sandwich: vividly-sauced pork bunned with zesty relish.
