Soul Food restaurants in USA
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Praline Connection
If you’ve never had soul food before, the PC might blow you away, but connoisseurs of the genre may find this popular tour-group stop middling. The food is pretty good, in a mom’s-kitchen kind of way – standbys are of the meat loaf, fried chicken and fish topped with étouffée school of cooking – but this restaurant hovers in that frustrating space between ‘meh’ and ‘wow.’ The service is cool; besides being friendly, the waiters dress like the Blues Brothers, which we’re always down with.
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Johnson’s Diner
Nobody does soul food better than this Orlando institution. Their calorie-busting meat-loaf sandwiches and homemade sweet-potato pie will have you loosening that belt quicker than you can say, ‘More collard greens, please.’
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Eatonville
One of our favorite new restaurants in DC has an unconventional theme by culinary standards: novelist Zora Neal Hurston (Eatonville was her home town; we’re not sure if the easy pun ‘Eating-ville’ was another source of the name). Well, what do you expect of the guys who opened next-door Busboys & Poets? The atmosphere and setting is superb, a sort of bayou dripped through impressionist-style murals of the South, then resurrected upon a modernist, cavernous dining hall that looks like nothing less than a cathedral to black intelligentsia. And the food? Fine. Very fine. Catfish come correct with cheese grits, and the andouille-and-sweet-potato hash…don’t get us started.…
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Oohh’s & Aahh’s
Some of DC’s best soul food is on offer at this barebones U St joint popular with everyone from the homeless to sports superstars. The down-home southern cooking comes in plentiful portions; it’s hard to walk away from the fish platter with some mac ‘n’ cheese and greens without being filled up, unless you’re some kind of human trash compacter, and the clientele is very much made up of the U St that was before this part of town gentrified.
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Deli City
Deli City sees no class or color. No, this faded orange building in a faded Northeast neighborhood attracts everyone from the haggard to the haughty craving a perfect over-stuffed sandwich south of New York. Eat in or take-away, this no frills place also does solid soul food like gravy smothered pork chops and fried fish at bargain prices. There is no nearby metro station, you'll need to drive.
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Crème
Crème’s upscale soul attracts a multi-culti crowd and is particularly popular with buppies (black yuppies), who enjoy a stick-to-your-ribs menu served in a slick dining room of soft beiges and buffed metal. Fight for seats at Sunday brunch; the chicken and waffles might be our favorite night-after nosh in DC, and based on the lines out the door, we’re not the only folks sharing that opinion.
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Delta of Venus Coffeehouse & Pub
This groovy converted Craftsman bungalow has a very social and shaded front patio. The chalkboard menu has breakfast items, salads, soups and sandwiches, including some vegetarian and vegan options. At dinner time you can order jerk-seasoned Caribbean dishes and wash it down with a beer or wine.
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Jestine's Kitchen
Charleston housekeeper Jestine Mathews lived to be 112, though probably not by eating the glorious fried chicken, fried green tomatoes and (fried) hush puppies at the down-home café named in her honor. Order 'table wine' (sweet tea) to drink and finish up with the famous Coca-Cola cake.
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Lil’ Dizzy’s
One of the city’s great lunch spots, Dizzy’s does mean soul-food specials in a historic shack owned by the Baquet family. The fried chicken is excellent, the hot sausages may be better and the bread pudding is divine. Our one gripe is the gumbo, which was more like thin brown water.
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Son Cubano
Bringing a touch of Little Havana to the West Side, with mojitos, conga drummers and spicy tapas, Son Cubano is a popular after-work and weekend drinking, dining and dancing establishment. Dishes include grilled pulpo with a smoky sauce, plantains and a daily seviche.
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Bob's Southern Bistro
This is Boston's best down-home soul food: barbecue ribs with a hunk of cornbread or fried chicken with black-eyed peas. Thursday through Saturday, dinner is served with live jazz. Sit at the long counter or in a booth in the recently redone dining room.
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Southern Fires
Choose from cornmeal-encrusted catfish, braised short ribs and the 3in-thick slab of meatloaf at this soul food restaurant. Sides are succulent collard greens, sweet potatoes and buttered cornbread. It's located near Belle Isle.
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M & G Diner
Many claim to cook soul food, but few really do. For those who know the difference, there's M&G Diner, where chefs fry chicken like its an Olympic event and braise their meats more tenderly than most people cradle a child.
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H&O
Soul food will rock your world. Order hearty dinners like fried or baked chicken or catfish with sides of candied yams, black-eyed peas or okra, and finish off with peach cobbler or bread pudding for dessert.
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Magnolias
Southern fusion is on offer at Magnolias; think 'Down South Eggroll' stuffed with collards and chicken, served with peach chutney, in a chic minimalist dining room.
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