Named for a 19th-century gentlemen's dining club in South Carolina, this James Beard Award-winning establishment celebrates Southern ingredients with tradition-based modern fare .
It's nothing but crab at Tracy's, mostly Alaska's famed red king crab, but sometimes also local Dungeness and snow crab. Crab bisque, crab cakes, and just plain giant crab legs and claws .
America's oldest Mexican restaurant under continuous operation by the same family, El Charro, founded in 1922, claims to have been the birthplace of the chimichanga - the deep-fried burrito common in the Southwest.
Tamales have been a Mississippi Delta tradition for at least a century, introduced to the region by Mexican farmworkers. Rhoda's, just across the Mississippi River from Mississippi itself.
The Golden State is full of must-visit restaurants, earning that distinction for various reasons - Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Spago in Beverly Hills, El Cholo in downtown L.A.
Opened in 1963, this adobe castle inspired by historic Bent's Fort features what it calls "new foods of the Old West." That means buffalo steaks and ribs, elk medallions, grilled quail.
Connecticut is famous for pizza, and it is commonly agreed that New Haven's version (often called "apizza," a Neapolitan dialect term) is the country's best.
Though there are numerous sandwiches and a full main course menu, burgers and ice cream sundaes are the items to have at this 66-year-old Wilmington standby.