A good fried seafood platter is a South Shore summer tradition, and the best ones come piled high with clams, scallops, shrimp, and fish. This list covers seven spots from Quincy down to Plymouth ...

Alabama has a way of mixing real history with stories that get passed around porches every fall. Some of the state’s spookiest stops are old furnaces, empty towns, grand mansions, and even a ...

Tucked into a small storefront on Garners Ferry Road, there is a seafood counter that Columbia folks keep talking about. The star of the show is a plate of spicy garlic shrimp that people order again ...

Some cities argue about football, and Birmingham does plenty of that. The other big debate happens at the dinner table, and it usually ends with one word: ribs. On the city’s Southside, close to the ...

Fry bread tacos are one of the best things you can eat in Arizona, and they are rarely small. A puffy round of fried dough gets loaded with beans, beef, chile, lettuce, tomato, and cheese until it ...

Oregon’s Hood River Valley has a scenic driving route called the Fruit Loop, and it winds past orchards, farm stands, and some seriously good pie. The loop runs through farm country south of Hood ...

Picture a waiter in a cowboy hat setting down a sizzling steak while the ocean sits just a few blocks away. That odd and happy mix is what you get at Angus Steakhouse and Seafood in Myrtle Beach. With ...

Plenty of restaurants have dropped soup from the menu, but a good diner still keeps a pot going every day. Virginia has some great ones, from a Richmond spot that opened in 1952 to a family-run ...

A few miles west of Medford, a small Gold Rush town hides a redbrick building that has stood longer than the state of Oregon itself. Upstairs, travelers sleep in rooms with exposed brick and a copper ...

Tamales are one of those foods that taste even better when someone else did all the hard work. Making them at home takes hours of spreading masa, filling husks, and steaming, which is exactly why a ...

Highway 95 between Las Vegas and Reno has long stretches where the only company is sagebrush and the occasional passing truck. That makes the diners in Tonopah and Goldfield more than just places to ...

Long drives on I-95 have a way of making every exit sign look like a promise. Most of those promises end in a drive-thru bag and a sigh. In Rockledge, on Florida’s Space Coast, one exit leads ...