Category Southeast
Over Easy – Birmingham, AL
As the road trip winds to a close, we were looking for breakfast. I considered a smokehouse that we could see from our hotel room, but googled instead for the best breakfast in Birmingham and found Over Easy was both well rated and close by. We pulled up to a packed restaurant, in the […]
The Hot and Hot Fish Club – Birmingham, AL
I first heard of chef Chris Hastings one day when we were having lunch at the Farmhouse at Serenbe. Marie Nygren, the owner, was telling another table about the next chef to be featured in their weekend chef series. She was raving about the food at Hot and Hot Fish Club and chef Hastings, who […]
Archibald’s Bar-B-Que – Northport, AL
One of the articles I saved earlier this year sent us to Northport, near Birmingham. Most folks, when they think of ribs in this area automatically steer toward Dreamland (on a side note, please don’t judge Dreamland based on visiting the franchise locations in Georgia – do yourself a favor and drive to Tuscaloosa, or […]
Big Bad Breakfast – Oxford, MS
“Lard have mercy”. That’s what it said on the t shirt that I was impulse buying at Big Bad Breakfast, because I found it so punny (apparently so did Dolly Parton’s manager, as the lady who checked us out told her that he had come in, with Dolly in tow, to purchase one for her). […]
Snackbar – Oxford, MS
We first visited Oxford, Mississippi several years ago on the way back home from a funeral in Memphis. Oxford was (kind of) on the way and we were looking for a different route home than we had taken there (the non-existent I-22). We had thought the town looked quaint and it fit our desired days’ […]
Abe’s Bar-B-Q – Clarksdale, MS
We rolled into Clarksdale, just ahead of a storm that we had driven through for most of the last 100 miles, following us like a “Hellhound on My Trail”. Driving south through Arkansas into Mississippi, we were going down to the crossroads, hoping to catch Abe’s Bar-B-Q, as opposed to a ride. Or the devil (like […]
Cotham’s Mercantile – Scott, AR
You have to love a place that has a dog-eared copy of Hamburger America sitting right by the cash register…. Working our way from Little Rock to Oxford, I had two or three stops planned – the first being Cotham’s Mercantile, in Scott. In the first version of the Hamburger America book that I bought, […]
McClard’s Bar-B-Q – Hot Springs, AR
This was the night that I was sure my insistence on relying on the GPS on my phone (as opposed to renting one) was going to come back and bite me in the butt. Leaving Dallas, with a hotel reservation in Little Rock, had left us with quite a drive ahead of us. I […]
Dooky Chase’s Restaurant – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with several of the folks I work with, I had mentioned that we were going to Willie Mae’s for lunch on Friday. Several said “if you’re going to Willie Mae’s for chicken, you really need to go to Dooky Chases’s Restaurant“. So after roaming around several of the suburbs on a shopping expedition, […]
Willie Mae’s Scotch House – New Orleans, LA
Willie Mae’s Scotch House has been on my “to-try” list on the last half dozen trips to New Orleans, but business concerns haven’t aligned with the ability to get there. I first read about it in Garden & Gun’s “100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die”, several years back and today, […]
