Category Southeast
Loveless Cafe – Nashville, TN
I have heard about Loveless Cafe for years, but we had never had the chance to dine there. About thirty minutes west of Nashville, we rarely get that far out of downtown, on our trips to the Las Vegas of country music. But, over July 4th weekend, we were there for a few days and […]
Smokemade Meats + Eats – Orlando, FL
Heading to Disney to meet the family, we were coming in a day ahead of everyone else. I checked my list and found this entry from Texas Monthly’s “United States of Texas Barbecue”, back in September, 2024: ”The smell of fat dripping onto coals was in the air when I pulled up to Smokemade Meats […]
Bowens Island – Charleston, SC
Down in Charleston for a day, while camping at Huntington Beach, we had shopped through the afternoon and were looking for a good spot for dinner. Garden n Gun had Bowens Island on their 100 Southern Foods list, for their roasted oysters. While we’re not oyster lovers, I thought it would be a good spot […]
Ela – Atlanta, GA
On this Sunday, we were headed for the (supposedly awesome) cheeseburgers at Evergreen Butcher and Baker, which are only available on Sundays. So we headed downtown, parked down the street and walked toward the restaurant. There wasn’t the expected line – just a sign on the door that they were “pausing” the Sunday cheeseburgers. […]
The Garage – Birmingham, AL
In the Pittsburgh of the South, once again, we were shopping when the question of what’s for lunch came up. I consulted “the list” and checked distances from the Goodwill outlet – the Garage it would be. Pulling onto 24th Avenue, we began to notice cars parked on both sides of the narrow road. Then […]
Murry’s Restaurant – Hazen, AR
This restaurant is cash only. It’s not often, at sixty, that we walk into a restaurant and bring down the average age, but I think we succeeded at Murry’s. Everyone in the place seemed to knows everybody else and I think we were the only people that a waitress didn’t hug and greet by name… […]
Jones Bar-B-Q Diner – Marianna, AR
A barbecue place that opens at 7:00 am, and doesn’t sell “breakfast foods”? I’m in. Open for 114 years (Yep – you read that right – one hundred and fourteen years!) and run by the fourth generation of the Jones family, this may be the oldest BBQ spot in the country. Located in a neighborhood, […]
Central BBQ – Memphis, TN
As we continued the journey, barbecue stop number two was Central B-B-Q, in Memphis. I didn’t realize until I went out to take a picture of the sign that we were one block from the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum. We visited this a decade or so ago, and it is powerful […]
A & R Bar-B-Q – Memphis, TN
Stop number one on the Eclipse barbecue scramble was A&R Bar-B-Q on Elvis Presley Blvd. Located on the end of a strip mall in an unassuming storefront, you’re confronted with the counter as soon as you walk in. The first thing I noticed was the happy hour frozen drink specials. This is a ‘cue place […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 