Southern restaurants
106 Southern restaurants featured on published best-of lists.
- 610 Magnolia — Old Louisville, Louisville
- Alcenia's — Pinch District, Memphis
- Alligator Soul — Historic District, Savannah
- Arnold's Country Kitchen — Wedgewood-Houston, Nashville
- Auburn Angel — Auburn Avenue, Atlanta
- Audrey — East Nashville, Nashville
- Beaumont Inn — Harrodsburg
- Bolton's Spicy Chicken & Fish — East Nashville, Nashville
- Bomb Biscuit — Grant Park, Atlanta
- Bowen's Island Restaurant — James Island, Charleston
- Breitbach's Country Dining — Sherrill
- Brochu's Family Tradition — Starland District, Savannah
- Bully's Restaurant — Fondren, Jackson
- Bunny's Buckets & Bubbles — Fells Point, Baltimore
- Busy Bee Cafe — Vine City, Atlanta
- C as in Charlie — NoHo, New York
- Cafe Pasqual's — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Charleston — Harbor East, Baltimore
- Clara B's Kitchen Table — Belleville
- Corner Kitchen — Biltmore Village, Asheville
- Deer & the Dove — Downtown Decatur, Decatur
- Drae's Lake Route Eatery — Rainier Beach, Seattle
- Dunsmoor — Glassell Park, Los Angeles
- Elizabeth on 37th — Thomas Square, Savannah
- Elliston Place Soda Shop — Elliston Place, Nashville
- Felicia Suzanne's — Downtown, Memphis
- Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen — Charles Village, Baltimore
- Good Hot Fish — South Slope, Asheville
- Grace by Nia — Seaport, Boston
- Grace Meat + Three — The Grove, St. Louis
- Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken — Downtown, Memphis
- Harold's Chicken Shack — West Pullman, Chicago
- Helen — Downtown, Birmingham, AL
- Hell's Backbone Grill & Farm — Boulder, UT
- Homegrown — Reynoldstown, Atlanta
- Hot and Hot Fish Club — Pepper Place, Birmingham, AL
- Howlin' Ray's — The Strip, Las Vegas
- Howlin' Ray's Hot Chicken — Los Angeles
- Irregardless Biscuit Company — West End, Providence
- J.C. Holdway — Downtown, Knoxville
- Jack Fry's — Highlands, Louisville
- Jones Bar-B-Q Diner — Marianna
- Josephine's Gulf Coast Tradition — Midtown, Houston
- Killen's — Heights, Houston
- Lassis Inn — South End, Little Rock
- Leon's Oyster Shop — Upper King, Charleston
- Les Sisters' — Winnetka
- Lockeland Table — East Nashville, Nashville
- Lucky Wishbone — Fairview, Anchorage
- Luella's Southern Kitchen — Lincoln Square, Chicago
- Magnolia & May — East Memphis, Memphis
- Mama J's — Jackson Ward, Richmond
- Mayflower Cafe — Downtown, Jackson
- McEwen's on Monroe — Downtown, Memphis
- Mike's Chicken — Dallas
- Miller Union — West Midtown, Atlanta
- Minnie Bell's Soul Movement — Fillmore, San Francisco
- Monell's — Germantown, Nashville
- Mothers Best Fried Chicken — Downtown Decatur, Decatur
- Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room — Historic District, Savannah
- Nolia Kitchen — Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
- Olamaie — Downtown, Austin
- OvenBird — Pepper Place, Birmingham, AL
- Prince's Hot Chicken Shack — Downtown, Nashville
- Proof on Main — Downtown, Louisville
- Red Rooster Overtown — Overtown, Miami
- Rocker Oysterfeller's — Bodega Bay
- Roots Southern Table — Farmers Branch
- Rougarou — Five Points, Denver
- Sally Bell's Kitchen — Museum District, Richmond
- Shagbark — West End, Richmond
- Silver Sands — Germantown, Nashville
- Skylight Inn BBQ — Ayden
- Soby's — Downtown, Greenville, SC
- Somerville — View Park-Windsor Hills, Los Angeles
- South — Spring Garden, Philadelphia
- Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery — Pearl District, San Antonio
- Southern Belle — Poncey-Highland, Atlanta
- Southern Love — Kaka'ako, Honolulu
- Southern National — Summerhill, Atlanta
- Stroud's — Northeast Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
- SugarJam The Southern Kitchen — North Scottsdale, Scottsdale
- Sunny Point Café — West Asheville, Asheville
- Supperland — Plaza Midwood, Charlotte
- Sylvia's Restaurant — Harlem, New York
- Table & Main — Canton Street District, Roswell
- The Arcade Restaurant — Downtown, Memphis
- The Bright Star — Downtown, Bessemer
- The Camden Social — North Minneapolis, Minneapolis
- The Chastain — Chastain Park, Atlanta
- The Goodyear House — NoDa, Charlotte
- The Grey — Historic District, Savannah
- The Heritage Table — Frisco
- The Olde Pink House — Historic District, Savannah
- The Roosevelt — Church Hill, Richmond
- The Slow Rhode — West End, Providence
- Topsoil Kitchen & Market — Travelers Rest
- Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours — West Midtown, Atlanta
- Viola & Agnes' — Seabrook
- Virtue — Hyde Park, Chicago
- Wade's Restaurant — Spartanburg
- Wagner's Village Inn — Oldenburg
- Wendell Smith's Restaurant — The Nations, Nashville
- Whoopsie's — Reynoldstown, Atlanta
- Willie Mae's NOLA — Warehouse District, New Orleans
- Wilson County BBQ — Bayside, Portland, ME
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