What are the top soul food restaurants in the area where you Live?


We have Silver Moon where mama cooks the best turkey and gravy with yams,smothered chicken and the like.

What about where you live?

When I go to Chicago I like Harolds's chicken!

i'm in S.F...
there is NO SUCH THING.

Oh Wait...
there is that little Korean place 'round the corner...

back in my hometown (des moines, ia) there's a lil rib shack called big daddy's...the stuff's expensive, but oh my gawd it's good... and of course, there's the maid-rite restaurant not 2 far away...

man, i gotta make a visit 2 dm soon.

The best one i was in most recently here in NYC is BB Smith's... Delicious!!!

thechronic said:

There's one here in Detroit called Southern Fires

'Pork Chops, Chitlins,Neck Bones,Fried Chicken and a Glass of Kool-Aid?'

I thought this was your idea of a romantic meal out at a restaurant.

There is a place called "Sit A Spell" about 10 miles south at Lake of Egypt here in Southern Illinois. They have the best lemon pepper battered fried fish I have ever tasted, and they have home fries and some good sweet cornbread. They have pork chops and all that stuff too, but I like their fried chicken and fish the best.



JD

SexLovely said:

you got it...but i take my dates to Mcdonald's ...no sense in overspending to get some ass!

silkyspread said:

Do you mean B Smith's? Last time I was there, there wasn't much down home soul food but some strange mix of overpriced pan asian cuisine.

If you want real deal soul food you gotta come Uptown to Harlem and have some Amy Ruths at 116th & Lenox (Malcolm X Blvd)... Sylvia's (126th & Lenox) still has better fried chicken, but Amy Ruths is the joint folks are flocking to.

Other spots are Spoonbread on 110th near Columbus, Londel's on 8th Ave (Frederick Douglass) near 140th, Wells on 7th (Adam Clayton Powell) near 138th, and the Bayou (Louisiana cuisine) on Lenox near 126th.

thechronic said:

U 4got 2 mention gizzards.

Soulfood in my travels...

When in LA I got down with Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, and then hung out at that spot, Reign owned by Keshawn Johnson.

In Chi-town, Harolds, and a spot called Honeysuckle on the South Side (dunno if they still there)... used to chill at the Salaam on the South Side til they closed down

In DC, Georgia Brown's was the best with a close second: B. Smith's with the original Soul Food menu. The best chili dogs are at Ben's Chili Bowl near 14th & U.

In Boston, gotta have Bob the Chefs on Columbus Ave.

NuPwrSoul said:

you know any good ones in atlanta?

In Indy...M&M soul food and Mississippi Belle

Have anyone here ever had any fried chitlins? Down here in the South you can find a plethora of soul food restaurants, i'm talking bout that kind of soul food restaurants that look like houses...I went to a drive thru soul food restaurant once and the drive thru window was at least 6 feet above my car window, lol. You can literally drop the plate on top of the roof! But anyways, the food was delicious, as always with soul food. On the serious tip, I think that we shouldn't intake all of the grease that normally comes with some soul food, that'll put a brotha in his early grave.

AbucahX said:

Shonuff. No pork on my fork.

AbucahX said:

I've never had fried chitlins, but I've had them boiled. I wasn't much of chitlin eater because I never really had a craving for them, but I don't eat 'em anymore at all. Grease intake comes with many types of food, not just Soul Food. Mexican and Italian foods are notoriously oily. Just one reason is because of the cheese used in their food. Most times people don't realize the high level of oil contained in cheese until it's melted.

I've never had fried chitlins, but I've had them boiled. I wasn't much of chitlin eater because I never really had a craving for them, but I don't eat 'em anymore at all. Grease intake comes with many types of food, not just Soul Food. Mexican and Italian foods are notoriously oily. Just one reason is because of the cheese used in their food. Most times people don't realize the high level of oil contained in cheese until it's melted.[/quote]

Yes, i understand that grease intake comes with many other types of food..I am very aware of that.

The best Neck Bones in LA...My house!!!

BAd...There is Soul food out there that is great... What did they blow Oakland off the map???

(LA used to have Denxel's restraunt Georgia's on Melrose was excellant...gone now however)

We have a small diner over here that serves
the best Pork Chops/soul food but they don't
serve any kool aid

O4ITSME said:

the way they droppin folks over there, they may as well have. I Avoid Oakland like the plague!!!

In my area,there are NO soul food restaurants that I know of.No problem,though...my girlfriend cooks this stuff on a regular basis.Fried catfish (with hot sauce),collard greens,cornbread (has to be Jiffy...lol),black-eyed peas,and okra.That's MY type of meal

Years ago,I went on a trip to Atlanta and we ate at a cool restaurant called Po'Folks.Is that place still around? I couldn't get enough of their food!!!

Oh,and I DO NOT eat chitlins! Just knowing what it really is makes me dislike it...lol...

DavidEye said:

Actually, no, I think that whole chain went out of business. And I was REAL disappointed! They had excellent food!

Supernova said:

Absolutely! We were in Atlanta for about a week,but we ate at this place several times.Best fried catfish I ever had!!

DavidEye said:

I guess they were pretty famous for their fried catfish. My mother used to talk about it all the time, but I never ordered it when I was there.

thechronic said:[quote]'Pork Chops, Chitlins,Neck Bones,Fried Chicken and a Glass of Kool-Aid?'[quote]

"Thats a Sunday dinna !"-James Evans, Good Times



Not to close but not too remote--Aunt Kizzies back Porch in Marina Del Rey. Best down home cooking especially the side dishes.

Louisiana Seafood...best catfish ever. Deep fried at a very very high temp so the greasedoesnt collect as much

The previously mentioned Roscoes Chicken n Waffles...best C n waffles ever.

Big Mamas closed down
[This message was edited Sun Sep 1 14:09:22 PDT 2002 by rdhull]

Chitterlings !

There aren't any soul food restaurants in my immediate area either... But, whenever I do get to dig into a great meal like that it's usually at "home" with family---at somebody's house...and, on my plate I want: Fried chicken, fried catfish, collard greens, candied yams, green beans w/pearl onions, sweet cornbread...and for dessert: Peach cobbler... Yummy!

And, green kool-aid, Chronic!

(p.s. I know that emoticon says "horny", but there isn't one for "hungry" so......)

peach cobbler.. Nana made the best...no need to even try it after her..she gave me the recipe before she passed an i still cold never get it like hers..like all great chefs i believe she left out something ...havent thought of her for a time

O4ITSME said:

Whenever a recipe changes hands it never really does taste the same, does it...

I had a aunt-like neighbor who made the best lemon cake that I and quite a few others had ever tasted...in fact, she became very well know in the area for her lemon cake. It had a sort of "wet" moistness to it from perhaps a lemon juice mixture that she created.

She would bake the cakes for family, friends, church socials, parties, etc...Anytime you wanted one all you had to do was ask, but she would not share that recipe for ANYTHING!...LoL...I think she knew no one would get it right anyway...(folks have tried to guess the recipe and failed...!!...lol!)...and, maybe she wanted the memory of her cake left intact.

I miss her and I do miss her lemon cake...

rdhull said:

I don't understand it...I just don't get the combination of chicken and waffles. It's like grits and cheese to me - how in bloody tarnation does cheese go with grits??? It's a southern thang, I know, I know...I just don't see the two being combined and eaten. So how do people eat chicken and waffles? Is it just the regular way with butter and syrup on the waffles and chicken on the side? Am I totally misconstruing the title?

Grits and cheese???

I'm scurred.

BelleBeyond said:

I know that cake.

I make that cake.

I'm well-known for that cake.

EVERYBODY and their great-grandparents asks me to make that cake.

I know that recipe.

EVERYBODY says nobody makes it like me.

But I sure as hell ain't aunt-like!

Btw, that wet moistness is a glaze. And I shall not tell what exactly it consists of, or how to make it perfectly.