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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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1st Street Apizza | Connecticut | New Haven Pizza Bests
A small, mostly take-out restaurant in downtown Seymour, Connecticut, 1st Street Apizza specializes in New Haven pizza with thin, elegant crust.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Alive and Kicking Lobsters
Alive and Kicking in Cambridge makes a great lobster salad sandwich on toasted Scali bread. Also: chowder to round out the meal.
Memorable | One of the Best
Amigo’s Deli
Amigo's Deli in Danbury, Connecticut is a short-order Latin-American diner & grocery store. Highlights: gorgeous rotisserie chicken; a super Cuban sandwich.
Danbury, CT
Memorable | One of the Best
Bauder Pharmacy
Indulge in a turtle sundae, shake, malt, or soda. The ice cream is Bauder's own, the flavor rotation including fresh strawberry and peach in summer months.
Des Moines, IA
Memorable | One of the Best
Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor
Wells’ Dairy, makers of Blue Bunny brand ice cream, produces more ice cream than any other single company. If you have a special fondness for ice cream, you need to know about this place! The ice cream parlor is a 1920s-style sweet shop with a soda-fountain counter and high-back booths.
Le Mars, IA
Memorable | One of the Best
California Tacos
"Imperfectly perfect" are the formal watchwords of these Tampa and St. Petersburg San Diego-style taco stands. House specialty: a loaded grouper fish taco.
Tampa, FL
Memorable | One of the Best
Chubby Muffin
An earnestly locavore, mellow coffee house/cafe/bakery/ice creamery where muffins are headliners and vegetarian options are available. * CLOSED *
Burlington, VT
Good | Worth a Return
Company Burger
In this New Orleans urban burger bar, patties are cooked through but juicy. Company Burger drinks include thick shakes, interesting beers and exotic cocktails.
New Orleans, LA
Memorable | One of the Best
Corner Grille
Corner Grille of Worcester, Massachusetts, bakes America's thinnest pizza. Chicken curry pie is amazing, as is Sweet tomato & basil and any one with sausage.
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
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Dayton Street Apizza
Rich sauce, quality toppings, and thin, crisp crust: Dayton Street Apizza is a New Haven best bet. A full selection of Foxon Park sodas is available.
New Haven, CT
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Dolce & Clemente’s
Dolce & Clemente's hero sandwiches come on massive rolls with strong crust. Do sample crisp Italian lobster tail pastries, like sfogliatelle but filled with cannoli cream.
Memorable | One of the Best
Duckfat
Duckfat offers upscale versions of classic sandwiches, but the best dish at this Portland landmark is French fries: crispy, creamy and shamelessly addictive.
Memorable | One of the Best
Famous Fourth Street Delicatessen
A classic kosher-style city delicatessen, 4th Street is famous for huge sandwiches, Jewish comfort food, and chocolate chip cookies. A Philadelphia best!
Philadelphia, PA
Memorable | One of the Best
Galco’s Soda Pop Stop
Beer store, sandwich counter, and candy shop in Los Angeles, Galco's is first and foremost a one-stop warehouse of hard-to-find sodas from around the world.
Los Angeles, CA
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Goodfellas Cafe
Spending nearly a decade in New Jersey, it was impossible to not fall in love with the diner restaurant model. And whether it’s a hearty breakfast to start the day, or making a quick stop to enjoy a generous lunch or dinner offering, there’s something deeply Americana about diners. The wide assortment of menu offerings, … Continue reading Goodfellas Cafe
Memorable | One of the Best
Grilled Cheese Grill
From classic grilled cheese to a Cheesus Burger (2 grilled cheese sandwiches replace the bun!), Grilled Cheese Grill reflects Portland’s eclectic cuisine.
Portland, OR
Memorable | One of the Best
Hosmer Mountain Soda
One of Connecticut's best independent soda bottlers, Hosmer Mountain offers root beer, sarsaparilla, white birch beer, and a rainbow of fruit flavors.
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
Memorable | One of the Best
K. LaMay’s | Connecticut’s Best Steamed Cheeseburger
The steamed cheeseburger is unique to central Connecticut. Of all steamer purveyors, K. LaMay's makes the biggest and one of the best.
Meriden, CT
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Kowloon Tong Dessert Cafe
Our two meals at Kowloon Tong Dessert Cafe, a late-night Hong Kong-style cafe in the Inner Richmond district, were easily our finest during a recent trip to San Francisco. Both took place around midnight, on consecutive nights, and on each occasion, even at this late hour, the small tables were jam-packed with scores of people. … Continue reading Kowloon Tong Dessert Cafe
San Francisco, CA
Memorable | One of the Best
La Mexicana
Tortilla chips at Houston's La Mexicana come warm with 2 sauces. Fish tacos are grilled mahi-mahi. Take some heart-shaped cinnamon-sugar cookies for the road.
Houston, TX
Memorable | One of the Best
Lafayette Coney Island Hot Dogs | Where’s Detroit’s Best?
Spicy hot dog, soft bun, chili, mustard and crisp onions (& maybe shredded cheese) form the Coney Island hot dogs Detroit loves so much.
Detroit, MI
Excellent | Worth a Detour
LaSalle Market & Deli
Imaginative menu, great prices, a wide array of sandwiches & pizza, plus friendly service put LaSalle Market on this reviewer's list of best sandwich shops.
Memorable | One of the Best
Leo’s Bagels
It's hard to find a really good bagel these days, even in New York. But Leo's delivers the goods: just-right chewy but not too dense, simply flawless.
New York, NY
Memorable | One of the Best
Nana’s Soul Food
Offering some of the best soul food in Charlotte, Nana's is a cafeteria with a vast array of choices. Great vegetables! Prices are low and service is friendly.
Charlotte, NC
Excellent | Worth a Detour
New Way Lunch
New Way Lunch hot dogs are upstate New York paradigms: slim franks in soft buns dressed with mustard, onions & finely-textured beef sauce with pepper tang.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Pie ‘N Burger
Beautiful fruit and meringue pies are made fresh daily; burgers are classic California: thin with crisp edges, loaded into squishy buns with pickles & onions.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Riverside Grill Shack
Hungry on the East Side of Nashville?, Riverside Grill Shack solves the problem with high quality burgers sided by thick cut Uber Tuber French Fries.
Nashville, TN
Memorable | One of the Best
Silver Skillet
Downhome food created by masters in humble surroundings has made the Silver Skillet an Atlanta, Georgia, Roadfood legend. Must eat: lemon icebox pie.
Atlanta, GA
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Stanleo’s
** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED **
The "Kitchen Sink" at Stanleo's is an OMG sandwich of seven meats, three cheeses, and zesty Triple Chop relish. An Augusta favorite!
Augusta, GA
Memorable | One of the Best
Steve’s Prince of Steaks
Steve's just might be the best traditional Philadelphia cheese steak: a classic topped with Whiz and grilled onions, packed into a shaft of quality bread.
Philadelphia, PA
Memorable | One of the Best
Sugar Bowl
With its pink-upholstered booths, Scottsdale's Sugar Bowl is a classic American ice cream parlor serving magnificent sodas, sundaes & malts.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
Swensons | Drive-In Burgers Fries and Shakes | Akron Ohio
A genuine car-service drive-in restaurant, Swensons serves burgers fries and shakes. Best bet: Galley Boy double cheeseburger, fully dressed.
Akron, OH
Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere
Tangaroa Restaurant
Finally, an excellent seafood restaurant and market near Marina del Rey, California. The theme is New Zealand; fresh oysters galore and superior ceviche star.
Los Angeles, CA
Memorable | One of the Best
The Sled Haus
The Sled Haus is a craft beer watering hole with elevated bar food that includes schooled sausage craftsmanship and enormous butcher sandwiches.
Excellent | Worth a Detour
The Yellow Carrot
Durango’s Yellow Carrot is a sunny spot for epic comfort food, like grilled cheese with pulled pork and herb cream-fried eggs on brioche.
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
Wilton Candy Kitchen
Wilton Candy Kitchen in Iowa may be America's oldest soda fountain. Enjoy cherry cokes, pink ladies, floats and sundaes of all kinds.
Memorable | One of the Best
Wise Acre Eatery | Farm to Table At Its Best in Minneapolis
Farm to table dining at its finest in Wise Acre Eatery, a casual, modern Minneapolis restaurant located in a former gas station.
Minneapolis, MN
Memorable | One of the Best
Zack’s Hot Dogs
Zack's Hot Dogs come nestled in steamed buns and topped with dark, meaty chili sauce that makes them some of North Carolina's best.
