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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

7 Mares

Mexican seafood is brilliant at 7 Mares, an unlikely shopping-center restaurant where highlights include shrimp-stuffed chiles rellenos & mile-high margaritas.

Aiken Fish House & Oyster Bar

A locals' favorite for all manner of fresh seafood and fine accompaniments, Aiken Fish House & Oyster Bar is a nice, clean place to dine.

Bacchanal

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

New Orleans, LA

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Bobop’s Famous Chicken

Bobop's is a gas station / convenience store / Blimpie shop that also includes a short cafeteria with extraordinarily flavorful fried chicken & fixins.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Bollywood Zaika

Bollywood Zaika combines flavors of Mumbai and Goa with Punjabi flourishes in a fast-casual concept.

Memorable | One of the Best

Brinson’s Bar-B-Que | Old School Georgia BBQ At Its Besteorgia B

A country-crossroads shack, Brinson's Bar-B-Que in Millen, GA is old school Georgia BBQ, featuring smoky, hacked-up pork shoulder, soulful hash & tangy/sweet sauce.

Memorable | One of the Best

Capri Restaurant | Best Biscuits and Spuds in an Idaho Dive

A down-home motel diner in the city of Boise, Capri is best known for biscuits and spuds as well as enormous cinnamon rolls.

Chef’s Dog House

Chef’s Dog House features over 30 different toppings for excellent hot dogs. Burgers are great, too, served with thin-fried potatoes or onions called frizzles.

Chick & Ruth’s Delly

Chick & Ruth’s is a fun place to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner in old Annapolis. Its menu ranges from creamed chipped beef on toast to spiced steamed shrimp.

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.

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** Here is an eatery where you really, truly can have it your way. To complement sliced pork, pulled pork, inside white meat, outside dark meat, pork ribs, or sliced beef, or smoked chicken, your waitress will present you with a choice of sauces: East Tennessee Red, North Carolina Vinegar, Devil’s Dew, South Carolina Gold, Alabama White, Texas/Oklahoma Style, Richard Petty brand, Maurice’s Gourmet Sauce, and Sauce from Hell.

Memorable | One of the Best

Edie’s Express

Soft, freshly baked biscuits draw lines to Edie's, a breakfast pit-stop beside a gas station. The brisket biscuit is unbelievable.

Lafayette, LA

Memorable | One of the Best

El Mago de las Fritas | Cuban Burgers & Fruit Juice in Miami

El Mago is a happy neighborhood diner serving the unique Miami sandwich known as a frita: a vividly-spiced ground beef patty on a Cuban roll.

Miami, FL

Memorable | One of the Best

Foxes Boxes

The Foxes Boxes is a unique, urban farm-to-table eatery where creative food (in little boxes) is from-scratch and where cultural and social virtues abound.

Memorable | One of the Best

Frankinbun | Hot Dog Heaven in Palm Springs

Frankinbun is Palm Springs Hot Dog Heaven, elevating the hot dog and more worldly sausages to gourmet status. Hot dog heaven! *CLOSED*

Palm Springs, CA

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Gab & Eat | Best Breakfast in Pittsburgh?

There is nowhere in Pittsburgh better for an early morning meal than the Gab & Eat, an urban hash house that just might serve the best breakfast in town.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Galatoire’s

The defining Creole restaurant in New Orleans maintains highest standards in food and service. A meal at Galatoire's is a unique and unforgettable experience.

New Orleans, LA

Memorable | One of the Best

Harold’s Koffee House | Omaha Roadfood At Its Best

Harold's is a bright, happy, mid-20th century urban coffee shop with great pies, donuts, and hot breakfast: Omaha Roadfood at its best.

Omaha, NE

Memorable | One of the Best

Harold’s New York Deli

Harold's is a brash restaurant that serves enormous portions of top-quality pastrami, corned beef, latkes, and other Jewish deli dishes.

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!

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Hell’s Kitchen

One of America's best restaurants, Minneapolis' Hell's Kitchen does everything better, from house peanut butter to Mahnomin porridge. Breakfast, lunch & dinner.

Minneapolis, MN

Excellent | Worth a Detour

High Street on Market

Sourdough waffles with malted butter, breakfast sandwiches with a twist, & iced cardamom coffee pay homage to Philly ingredients at High Street on Market.

Philadelphia, PA

Memorable | One of the Best

Hill Country Barbecue Market

Texas BBQ in New York, at N.Y. prices. There is a dissonance about this place, but if you can't get to the real Hill Country, it might scratch the itch.

New York, NY

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Jozsa Corner

Appointment-only dinners at Pittsburgh's Jozsa Corner feature such superb Hungarian comfort food as chicken paprikash and goulash. *CLOSED*

Pittsburgh, PA

Memorable | One of the Best

Kitchenette

Kitchenette is a popular spot on California’s Central Coast offering creative, updated versions of breakfast & lunch favorites.

Memorable | One of the Best

Leatha’s Bar-B-Que Inn

As good as the BBQ is at Leatha's in Hattiesburg, sides are better: crisp coleslaw and spectacular potato salad made with large hunks of skin-on potato.

Memorable | One of the Best

Lee’s Famous Recipe

Lee’s Famous Recipe is a regional chain that offers something special: the best potato wedges known to man. Chicken is crisp, tea sweet, green beans porky.

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

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Main Street Meats | Steak and Burger Heaven in Chattanooga

In Chattanooga's Southside Historic District, Main Street Meats is steak and burger heaven: artisan butcher and first-class cafe with a huge whiskey inventory.

Memorable | One of the Best

Mama’s on Washington Square

Mama's is a San Francisco North Beach restaurant serving Dungeness crab eggs Benedict, apple-yogurt French toast and terrific coffee cakes.

San Francisco, CA

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

McKay Cottage Restaurant

The Mackay Cottage Restaurant is in a historic craftsman home that could be an Inn. There are no beds here, just excellent breakfasts.

Bend, OR

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Mickey’s Dining Car

Mickey’s Dining Car in St. Paul is a stunning yellow-and-red enamel diner from 1937. Breakfast is foursquare!

Saint Paul, MN

Memorable | One of the Best

Moishes

Moishe's is Montreal's high-end steak house with a Jewish accent. Side a gorgeous filet mignon with latkes (potato pancakes) or twice baked Monte Carlo potato.

Montréal, QC

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Mosca’s | Vintage Roadhouse | New Orleans’ Best Italian Food

Mosca's is a vintage roadhouse restaurant outside New Orleans, Louisiana, that serves spectacular Italian fare with a south-Louisiana twist.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Northside Grill | Michigan | An Ann Arbor Breakfast Best

An Ann Arbor breakfast best, the Northside grill specializes in mighty egg & hash brown skillets and extraordinary oat-bran pancakes.

Ann Arbor, MI

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

OliBea

In Knoxville's Old City, OliBea restaurant makes memorable breakfast from biscuits to pork cheek tacos. All fresh, all local, all delicious.

Knoxville, TN

Memorable | One of the Best

Pel’meni | Traditional Russian Dumplings | Juneau, Alaska

Pel'meni is a casual storefront on Juneau's wharf where traditional Russian dumplings (pelmenis) are served with non-traditional toppings.

Memorable | One of the Best

Perly’s | Jewish Deli Reborn | Richmond, VA

Perly's is a reborn vintage deli that serves traditional Jewish fare with modern upgrades, clever twists, a spirit of fun, and dedication to high-quality ingredients.

Richmond, VA

Memorable | One of the Best

Polish Villa

In this humble dining room you will eat magnificent Polish food served by an able staff that makes newcomers feel like family.

Buffalo, NY

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Porto’s Bakery and Cafe

Porto's is a bakery, a cafe and a California institution, known for fried filled potato balls and guava cheese pastries ... and so much more.

Glendale, CA

Memorable | One of the Best

Redwood Steakhouse

The Redwood is one of Iowa’s grand old steakhouses, hearkening back to a more formal era when relish trays, fresh bread, and hearty portions were standard fare.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Rolled & Baked

** PERMANENTLY CLOSED **Great biscuits are the basis of an inventive menu in which southern classics are created with a modern twist. Rolled & Baked is one-of-a-kind-wonderful.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Ruben’s Argentinian Steakhouse

Argentine-style grilled steaks of every cut and size are Ruben's specialty. Also: chicken, sausage, and breaded beef. Herb-speckled chimichurri sauce over all!

Aiken, SC

Memorable | One of the Best

Seeds Cafe

A country-road, farm to table cafe that gets ingredients from local sources and cooks from scratch, Seeds Cafe is constantly surprising, always delicious.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Souvla

Bay Area ingredients get a Greek twist at Souvla, where salads are piled with spit-fired meat and frozen Greek yogurt is sprinkled with sea salt.

San Francisco, CA

Good | Worth a Return

Split

Whatever you order at Split -- healthful or indulgent -- make sure to include crispy butterball potatoes with a touch of rosemary.

San Francisco, CA

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Stroud’s

Does Stroud's of Kansas City serve the best fried chicken anywhere? With from-scratch fixins, too, from soup and mashed potatoes to sweet cinnamon rolls.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Stubby’s Hik-Ry Pit Bar-B-Que | An Arkansas BBQ Best

Stubby's of Hot Springs is an Arkansas BBQ best, serving pork, ham and beef. Side dishes of smoked pit potato and pot-o-beans are unequaled.

Hot Springs, AR

Memorable | One of the Best

T-Coon’s

It's a casual cafe, but brilliant Cajun food and hospitality make T-Coon's a destination restaurant for what the chef calls Zydeco cooking.

Lafayette, LA

Memorable | One of the Best

Ted’s

Ted's specialty is the unique central Connecticut dish, a steamed cheeseburger: oozing, luscious, beefy succulence!

Meriden, CT

Excellent | Worth a Detour

The Shack

The Shack is a good stop along I-95 in Connecticut for big breakfast, and such hearty fare as shepherd's pie and Yankee puddings for dessert.

Memorable | One of the Best

Toki Ona Diner

In this Nevada Basque restaurant, meals are served family-style, featured entrees being lamb chops and pork chops flavored with plenty of garlic.

Memorable | One of the Best

Triplet’s Blue Store II

A spin-off of a roadside chicken shack, catering to LSU students and savvy locals who know that this little shack has destination-worthy fried chicken.

Baton Rouge, LA

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Uncle Bill’s Pancake House

By the Ocean in Manhattan Beach, Uncle Bill's is known for eggs, pancakes, and waffles; we love the hash brown scramble known as potatoes Stroganoff.

Manhattan Beach, CA

Good | Worth a Return

Utopia Diner

From 7am to midnight in Utopia, it's the full New York coffee shop experience: fast service, quality food, reasonable prices.

New York, NY

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Verucchi’s | Fried Chicken and Ravs in an Illinois Supper Club

Verucchi's is an Illinois River Valley supper club serving Italian-American classics as well as Italian fried chicken with ravs, a local favorite.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Wild Bear Tavern

Superb German fare in a Pigeon Forge hotel restaurant includes schnitzels, bratwurst, and potato pancakes, plus a full array of Old World beers and wines.

Pigeon Forge, TN

Memorable | One of the Best

Wilson’s BBQ

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** "U Need No Teeth to Eat Our Beef" is a Wilson's motto. Tender BBQ with flavor that is hugely beefy, well-salted and fatty: a destination Tulsa restaurant.

Tulsa, OK

Memorable | One of the Best

Winter Park Fish Co.

Winter Park Fish Co. is an Orlando-area ramshackle restaurant with impeccably fresh seafood prepared every way imaginable. A Florida best!

Memorable | One of the Best

Wright’s Chicken Farm

One of the biggest restaurants on earth, Wright's Farm serves a classic Rhode Island Blackstone Valley chicken dinner with fixin's, all-you-can-eat.

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