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

5 Sisters Blues Cafe

A polite and efficient soul food restaurant downtown Pensacola, Florida, 5 Sisters offers a broad sampler of traditional Southern comfort food.

Bertha’s Kitchen

Founded by the late Albertha Grant in 1979, Bertha's is a modest cafeteria restaurant on the outskirts of Charleston that is a primer in Lowcountry soul food.

Charleston, SC

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Big Daddy’s Dish

Fried chicken, spare ribs, catfish, etc. accompanied by expertly-cooked vegetables and Georgia peach cobbler make Big Daddy's an Atlanta best bet for soul food.

Blue Top Grill

It's a humble diner, but quality lunch counter burgers and meat-&-3 have made the Blue Top Grill a favorite lunch spot east of Augusta since 1951.

Bush’s

A humble seafood restaurant where all kinds of fish are prepared with expertise. On the side: Dixie-best soul-food vegetables.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Calvin’s Roasted Fish & Salads

A quiet soul food cafe on the outskirts of Augusta's downtown, Calvin's focuses on seafood, but the menu also includes beef, chicken & flavorful vegetables.

Carbone’s

Carbone’s of Hartford, Connecticut, has been serving white-tablecloth Italian fare since '38. For a big deal, old-world meal, it reigns supreme.

Memorable | One of the Best

Cattlemen’s

Surrounded by the Oklahoma stockyards, Cattlemen’s is the consummate cowboy steak house. Beef is as good as it gets. Eat testicles, too!

City Café

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** The City Cafe of Elgin, Texas, has a fine full menu, but its chicken fried steak is supreme: gnarled and crusty, golden brown with a brittle crust.

Corrales Mexican Food

Corrales is an exceptional Mexican roadside patio offering true examples of Ventura, CA town snack, little known to outsiders: corn burritos.

Memorable | One of the Best

Dennis BBQ | “Where the Good Food Is” | Augusta GA

An out-of-the-way Augusta BBQ where most business is take-out, Dennis' motto is: If you want good food, then come to where the good food is.

Memorable | One of the Best

DeShawn’s Seafood and Chicken

Top-quality, no-frills seafood and great fried chicken make DeShawn's a destination feast in North Augusta. [*PERMANENTLY CLOSED*]

Detroit Soul

Detroit Soul is a meat-and-3 cafe on Eight Mile Road specializing in Southern classics during the week and barbecue ribs on Saturday.

Memorable | One of the Best

Dip’s Country Kitchen

We love to start the day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at Mama Dip's restaurant with eggs, pork chops and gravy or country ham, sided by biscuits and grits.

Doughnut Plant

Artisan donuts, including a Valrhona dark chocolate yeast donut and a Meyer lemon donut make Doughnut Plant a Lower East Side treasure.

Du-Par’s

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Du-Par's in the Los Angeles Farmer's Market is a fantastic destination for a snack, a stack of pancakes, or a chicken pot pie.

Los Angeles, CA

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Ellenos Yogurt

A stand-up stall at Seattle's Pike Place Market, Ellenos Yogurt is a benchmark of fresh, pure dairy goodness, available in magnificent creative flavors.

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

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Hell’s Backbone Grill

Get the best dinner for miles at Boulder’s Backbone Grill, from black pepper biscuits to zucchini fritters to chimayo-kissed pot de creme.

Memorable | One of the Best

Horace & Dickie’s

Expertly fried seafood stars on a menu that includes southern vegetables, banana pudding & sweet potato pie. Horace & Dickie's is a DC best!

Good | Worth a Return

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** Hot Sauce Williams' specialty is the Polish Boy: kielbasa, BBQ sauce, fries, & slaw all on a bun. Ribs, fried chicken and soulful sides are all very good, too.

Cleveland, OH

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

Mary Stewart’s Southern Soul Food

Mary Stewart's offers rib-sticking truck-stop Southern food -- bold flavors of Mississippi now rooted generations-deep in Southern California.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Meridian Corner

Meridian Corner is a remote roadside tavern that upholds traditional South Dakotan foodways, nailing every dish.

Memorable | One of the Best

Mr. Bartley’s

Mr. Bartley's is a Cambridge, Mass, institution with a menu of sandwiches and burgers named after politicians, sports stars, and local glitterati.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

My Three Sons of Charleston

A humble soul food / Gullah gem in North Charleston, My Three Sons serves emblematic southern comfort food, from 4-star fried chicken to creamy banana pudding.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Namaste Indian Street Food

Located in a common shopping center, Namaste offers uncommonly good Indian food, dine-in or take-out. Go in a group: There are so many good things to taste.

Memorable | One of the Best

Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana of Fairfield

Pepe's pizza delivers the perfect balance of crunch and chew, savory burnt edge, and debris-strewn underside that characterizes Connecticut's best.

Fairfield, CT

Memorable | One of the Best

Perry Foster’s BBQ

** THIS RESTAURANT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED ** In this 365-days-a-year Augusta BBQ, lamb and beef are standout meats. Perry Foster's good sides include mac 'n' cheese and thick, porky baked beans.

Legendary | Worth driving from anywhere

Peter Luger

Peter Luger is an ancient (since 1887) neighborhood Brooklyn steak house that serves stupendous porterhouse. Is this America's best steak? (Cash only)

Good | Worth a Return

Prime Smokehouse Barbeque & Beyond

Rocky Mount's Prime Smokehouse offers BBQ ribs and pork in a vinegar sauce, plus good sides. Spiced bread pudding, served with gelato, earns high marks.

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Robert’s Western World

The last real honky-tonk in Nashville, with fried bologna sandwiches so good you’ll want to order a second one with your third drink.

Nashville, TN

Memorable | One of the Best

Royal Guard Fish & Chips & More

Royal Guard is a spanking-clean fish & chips restaurant that also has a clay oven from which emerge excellent seekh kabobs, chicken tikka and naan flatbreads.

Danbury, CT

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Swett’s

Swett's is a Nashville restaurant serving traditional soul food including BBQ, fried chicken and good southern vegetables, plus, of course, pies and cobblers.

Nashville, TN

Good | Worth a Return

Takosushi

Culinary fusion of Japan and the American Southwest includes sushi rolls, flash-fried stuffed jalapenos, bento boxes and flank-steak tacos.

Aiken, SC

Memorable | One of the Best

The Planing Mill Artisan Pizza | Visalia California’s Best Pizza

The Planing Mill is a local favorite for Visalia California's best pizza. A classic pizza parlor with innovative toppings and a killer craft beer list.

Visalia, CA

Excellent | Worth a Detour

Waterwheel Road Grocery

Saturday is the day to bring big appetite to this country-road grocery store. That's BBQ day, when Waterwheel's slow-smoked meats are followed by peach cobbler.

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