If you live in a non-Southern area, are there any Southern food restaurants in your

[raccoon]

area? I just started thinking about that today.

Please include your city.

[KG]

1. not sure how you define 'southern' food. i grew up in the northeast, mythologising to myself about

southern food and culture. then i actually lived there. ack. i found southern food to be mostly anything, only deep-fried to an unrecognizable lump. of culture, i found none.

sorry about the rant.

[midwest irish]

6. We won the civil war.

that means we can say what we want and dont to apologize for our rants.

[Major Nikon]

25. BBQ, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Creole, Soul Food

Chicken fried steak, butter beans, grits, biscuits/gravy, fried catfish, country ham, cornbread, cobbler, fried green tomatoes, black eyed peas, fried okra, etc.

[ohiosmith]

2. Live in Vegas! Not a one! Some have tried,.....but sucked big time!

[kiva]

24. There's the M&M Cafe on Charleston.

I wasn't impressed the one time I tried it a few years ago, but it gets excellent reviews so it might just be me.

[ohiosmith]

32. I've passed it a few times. Maybe I'll give it a try next time I go off my diet!

[KamaAina]

3. San Jose: A few.

Oakland: Lots. Never been to one here, but did get to Chef Edward's BBQ in Oakland once after a protest. Hell yeah!

[4_TN_TITANS]

4. Tons.....

oh, wait - never mind, I'm in the South. It's hard to beat Cracker Barrel, even here.

[midwest irish]

5. troy ohio

Cajun food place downtown. You dont have to order in creole. They have alligator, crayfish, all sorts of good things.

[Tobin S.]

8. Howdy neighbor. I'm from Richmond, Indiana.

We've got a BBQ joint here that just opened up not too long ago. I guess that's southern food. Not bad, but a little too pricey for me.

[midwest irish]

9. Hey!

Just drove through there the other day on my way to the Indy childrens museum. Ive been to Earlham a few times, nice place. In college (at WSU) I met a lot of non-local people. They were all weirded out by the last name of Tom the RV dealer.

[Tobin S.]

10. We live close to Earlham

I used to be from Dayton and I have a couple of years of school at WSU from back in the 90s. I'm back in school now at IU East finishing up my degree. We have a building on the IU East Campus called Raper Hall.

[midwest irish]

11. hahahah

IU East is pretty big.

[a la izquierda]

20. Tom Raper!!!

I live outside of Columbus, and we know of that RV dealer...

[Callalily]

7. Nothing even remotely

Southern in my area! Oh wait . . . there is ONE place and the name absolutely does not reflect the cuisine. They make the best muffuletta outside of New Orleans. Well, I've never been to New Orleans, but that's what I've been told by (ahem) Southerners.

[graham4anything]

12. Sylvia's 126th street Harlem (NYC)

Sylvia's
328 Lenox Ave New York, NY 10027 Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]

except I can't eat all that anymore due to the wellness program I have been on the last year

(except every once in a while if I cheat).

http://www.sylviasrestaurant.com/menus/daily_menu.pdf


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[raccoon]

19. Sylvia's sounds great! nt

[Denninmi]

13. Well, Detroit has a number of soul food establishments.

That is Southern cuisine.

[Mr.Bill]

14. I'm about 100 miles north of San Francisco

but when I visit there I usually go to this place http://www.biscuitsandblues.com/

Great blues night club and great food. Click on their menu to see what they serve. The corn and shrimp fritters are my favorite, although I think each serving shortens my cardiovascular life span by several months.

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Tucson. We have some good independent bbq restaurants here. I've been here 14 years and...

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...have seen a coupla soul food restaurants (never visited) open and close fairly quickly and
a coupla Cajun restaurants (which I liked) open and close. We have a relatively new chicken-
and-waffles joint (that concept seems strange to me).
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Popeye's and Church's Chicken show up if you Google for "Tucson soul food".
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[Kali]

28. OMG I finally tried Popeyes in January

when I was in Tempe. pretty damn good for a drive-through! drool

[MiddleFingerMom]

30. They have surprisingly good red beans & rice.

[kwassa]

16. Soul food is southern food, really.

Nothing much here in teh 'burbs.

of course, downtown in DC there is plenty of it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. Our First Sergeant in the 101st Airborne was an "older" Southern Black man, well-loved by all.

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On "Soul Food Night" in the mess hall, some of the young Black soldiers would stop by and invite him
to join them.
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"What WE think of as soul food are the scraps & leavings that Massa would feed us because he found
them to be "unpalatable". Tonight, I'm going to go home and grill myself a steak... ... ... because I can."
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[eShirl]

18. KFC baby

(Maine)

[a la izquierda]

21. I'm vegetarian.

I have no idea if southern food is around here. I can't eat it.

[R B Garr]

22. Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles - Los Angeles/O.C.

The President even visited there too in one of his L.A. visits. They had it on the news about his visit. It's pretty famous soul food/southern fried food for the area. I think the Pico Blvd. location was the first, but I see they're expanding.

I couldn't get their site to pull up, so I went with the Wiki page so you can see the general history of it (assuming Wiki is accurate...) Roscoe's is the bomb! So good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe's_House_of_Chicken_and_Waffles

[davsand]

23. Got a brand new one! Haven't even been there yet.

http://www.louiesbbq.com/Happenings.php

Early reviews were mixed. I figured I'd give it a bit of time to shake out the menu and the kinks. I am guardedly optimistic...




Laura

[DryHump]

26. Denver

Tom's Home Cookin'!!!! Catfish, collard greens, fried chicken, corn bread - yowza

[Inkfreak]

27. I'd kill for some great BBQ here in Oswego, NY!!

Whenever I visit my mother in Hendersonville NC, I eats tons of it. I love those lil off the beaten path places. Oh man...now that's all I want.

[DryHump]

36. I'm from Syracuse

graduated from Oz in '79. LOVED college there-hope you get some southern style soon

[union_maid]

29. Well, for BBQ there's Smokin' Al's

Bay Shore and Massepequa on Long Island. You can't even get into the Bay Shore one most of the time. Not sure about the other. Not sure where you can get really good fried chicken or country fried steak. There's a Country Kitchen near here, but that's a chain. Not bad, but nothing special either. Shoot. Now I'm really hungry.

[grasswire]

31. quite a few in Portland

An disproportionate number of them, methinks. Portland is a huge restaurant town, with many featuring southern fare.

[riderinthestorm]

33. Chicago so there's a ton of great BBQ places like Carsons or Smoque. Same thing with soul food

restaurants like Chicago's Home of Chicken and Waffles or Pearl's Place.

Can't say the last time I went to one of them however. I never did develop a big taste for southern food. Maybe its because I never have lived in the south nor have I been around family who ever cooked it.

[Aristus]

34. Tacoma, Washington has The Southern Kitchen.

Which is more soul-food than chicken-fried, gravy-smothered, hillbilly red-neck fodder. Great food. Even though I was born and raised in the South, I had always disliked things like grits and collard greens. The Southern Kitchen serves heavenly collard greens, which I now enjoy. Still can't stand grits, though.

[frogmarch]

35. No, but when I

lived in Wyoming, I ate hominy once. ugh!

[Curmudgeoness]

37. There never was anything remotely southern here until recently.

I have noticed a definite swing towards places where they serve what I would consider southern food.

I am just outside of Youngstown OH.

We never knew what Mexican food was growing up, except for the TV dinners my mother would get for herself when she wanted Mexican. We now have several, and some are excellent. A few chains have come to town that serve chicken-fried steak and barbecue. That is something I never could find since I had moved from Houston. I have yet to find independent restaurants with these items on the menu yet, but at least I find them now.

[becca da bakkah]

38. Why Yes, In My Own Kitchen!.....

In the Southern CA desert outside Joshua Tree National Park. I grew up with southern parents, so I know good fried chicken, fried okra, biscuits, sweet potato pie, cornbread, etc. I come from a long line of good southern cooks.

My mom's fried chicken would make the Colonel hide his face in shame!

[mike_c]

39. Bless My Soul Cafe in Eureka, CA....

They do a great job, but it's pretty pricey for the same sort of food Weaver D's sells.

[loyalsister]

40. Columbia MO is Semi Southern

Shotgun Pete's has great barbeque. Mississippi Catfish Shack moved outside of the city but is still going.