Category Southeast

K Hall and Sons Produce – Little Rock, AR
Continuing westward from Memphis, we got into North Little Rock, a little early for dinner, but definitely at a good time for a solid snack. We were led to K Hall and Sons Produce, a small family-owned grocery store, by the Garden n Gun “Fried Chicken Bucket List”, so I knew why I was there. […]

Snappy Lunch – Mt. Airy, NC
While in Wilkesboro, NC, for MerleFest, we went roaming one day to Mt. Airy. Most famous as the hometown of Andy Griffith, it is promoted as a modern-day Mayberry – right down to Floyd’s barber shop and a Mayberry police car parked on Main Street. But we were there for a different purpose – the […]

Pita House – Greenville, SC
What’s the thing about shawarma, you ask? It’s one of those foods where there is very little middle ground – it’s good, or it’s not. For years, a co-worker talked about the chicken shawarma he got every time he went back to Furman. Then my daughter, whose best friend lives in Greenville, was raving about […]

Price’s Chicken Coop – Charlotte, NC
Before heading back home from a business trip to Charlotte, I had questioned a couple of the local attendees at the meetings about Charlotte institutions that we might not know about. One of them mentioned Price’s Chicken Coop, which has been serving up hot, fresh fried chicken since 1962. They were already on my radar […]

Brook’s Sandwich House – Charlotte, NC
As I’ve stated before, the impetus for this blog began with discovering the first edition of George Motz’s Hamburger America, during a lunch in 2007. I decided that I’d make it one of my goals to eat as many of the 100 “best hamburgers” in the US, as I could, over the coming years. The […]