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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
Bimini’s Oyster Bar & Seafood Cafe
Laid-back Greenville oyster bar and seafood house with decor that evokes life at the beach, Bimini's is a Roadfood notable for its excellent shrimp & grits.
Greenville, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
Blackstone’s Cafe
A bare-table cafe near the waterfront in Beaufort, South Carolina, Blackstone's is a good destination for corned beef hash, grits, eggs, and a sticky bun.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Boll Weevil Cafe & Sweetery
Huge layer cakes rule at Boll Weevil, a jolly cafe by Augusta's waterfront where fine southern fare shares menu space with modern salad, soup & sandwiches.
Augusta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Cafe Strudel
South Carolina's hip, friendly Cafe Strudel makes everything from scratch using the best local ingredients It's a breakfast, lunch & dinner favorite.
West Columbia, SC
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Cast Iron Kitchen
In a strip-mall location, the Cast Iron Kitchen offers rustic decor and downhome food. Grits, corned beef, and pimento cheese sandwiches are notable.
Memorable | One of the Best
Croaker’s Spot
Croaker's Spot is a soul-food seafood restaurant with huge portions, friendly service, and a broad menu that includes wildly creative cocktails.
Richmond, VA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Dame’s Chicken & Waffles
Dame's crisp-crusted fried chicken comes atop a waffle accompanied by such flavored butter schmears as peach-apricot, vanilla-almond, and chocolate-hazelnut.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
FireFly
A "chef-driven restaurant" serving modern Southern cuisine, FireFly, in Key West's Bahama Village, is a source of classic dishes with inventive twists.
Key West, FL
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Flipside Cafe
Flipside Cafe's Dixie-flavored farm to table comfort food includes shrimp & grits, local greens & veggies, and white cheddar pimento cheese. Breakfast, too!
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Frog Hollow Tavern
Local, seasonal, organic: Augusta's Frog Hollow Tavern does it right. Shrimp & grits is kaleidoscopic; in-season peaches are spectacular; cocktails are clever.
Augusta, GA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Grey Market | Best Epicurean Diner in Savannah, GA
Lunch counter, neighborhood bodega: the Grey Market is an epicurean diner where a blue-collar menu is cooked with blue-ribbon savoir faire.
Savannah, GA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Grits & Groceries
True-South meals made with local produce and culinary savoir faire make the crossroads market/restaurant Grits & Groceries a South Carolina foodie beacon.
Memorable | One of the Best
Hammond’s Ferry Larder
Small plates, Saturday brunch, blissful patio dining, and a wide variety of creative meals (plus a full bar) make the Larder a treasured foodie destination.
North Augusta, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
Harvest House
Expect the unexpected at Harvest House, where even familiar dishes are served with a twist. Don't miss the fried green tomato tower. Burgers are grand.
Landrum, SC
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Highrail
A rustic / modern town cafe featuring Dixie fare, rugged burgers, evening pizzas, and peach-state cocktails, Thomson's Highrail is worth a detour off I-20.
Thomson, GA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Hominy Grill
Hominy Grill is the best opportunity in Charleston to savor lowcountry cuisine at reasonable prices. It's all good, especially breakfast and desserts.
Charleston, SC
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Honey From the Rock Cafe
Serving 4-star Dixie cafeteria fare with spiritual purpose, Augusta's Honey from the Rock is known for baked chicken, crisp corn fritters & homemade ice cream.
Augusta, GA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Iron Horse Grill | Beech Island Bar Food and Potent Drinks
Bar food and potent drinks make the Iron Horse Grill a favorite destination in rural South Carolina. $20 buys a year's membership.
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Juniper
Elegant southern cooking makes Juniper a destination restaurant for food lovers who come for Friday shrimp and grits, Monday meat loaf, and Sunday brunch.
Ridge Spring, SC
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Manuel’s Bread Cafe
In this town cafe with a French accent, specialties range from trout Reubens to variations of the croque monsieur. Save room for 5-flavor pound cake.
North Augusta, SC
Memorable | One of the Best
McClellanville Diner
A modest diner by the side of the highway northeast of Charleston, McClellanville Diner is known for good fried shrimp and, on occasion, excellent crab cakes.
Memorable | One of the Best
Narobia’s Grits & Gravy
Narobia's Grits & Gravy is a friendly Savannah neighborhood soul food restaurant where breakfast is best, especially shrimp & grits and superb French toast.
Savannah, GA
Good | Worth a Return
Native Cafe
The locally owned Native Cafe brings beach favorites such as crab cake Benedict and shrimp and grits to Pensacola, Florida.
Memorable | One of the Best
Nikki’s Place
A small soul food restaurant with a big personality, Nikki's is an Orlando gem. Shrimp & grits, available all day, is a Roadfood best.
Orlando, FL
Memorable | One of the Best
Old Edgefield Grill | New American Dixie
Contemporary culinary style meets Southern tradition in the polite dining rooms of the Old Edgefield Grill. New American Dixie dining!
Edgefield, SC
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 *
Aiken, South Carolina
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Pearl’s Place | Chicago Bronzeville Soul Food Breakfast Best
Pearl's biscuits are some of the fluffiest we've had. Soul food breakfast specials combine them with eggs AND pancakes AND grits AND meat.
Chicago, IL
Good | Worth a Return
Rae’s Coastal Cafe
Rae's of Augusta is famous for its marinated-lettuce green salad, a classic concoction to accompany seafood both Carolina and Caribbean style.
Augusta, GA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Red Shed Diner & Produce
A colorful, welcoming roadside restaurant & produce stand, Graniteville's Red Shed serves hearty cafe meals and blue ribbon pies & cakes. * CLOSED *
Graniteville, SC
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Roy’s Grille
Although it is a minimalist gas-station cafe, Roy's Grille offers scrupulously well-prepared breakfast and lunch, including masterful shrimp and grits.
Lexington, 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.
Memorable | One of the Best
Sisters of the New South
Believe Sisters' motto: Real Southern Cooking. Cafeteria-style soul food at this Savannah, Georgia, restaurant is classic, from smothered shrimp to cobbler.
Savannah, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Tiny Diner
Local, sustainable, organic, natural, low-impact biointensive urban farming: a gamut of culinary virtues sets the beat at the green Minneapolis Tiny Diner.
Minneapolis, MN
Memorable | One of the Best
West Egg Café
From roasted corn and fried chicken hash to fluffy biscuits with hot pepper jelly, excellent and large breakfast dishes abound all day at Atlanta’s West Egg Café.
Atlanta, GA
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!
