Every fall, Maryland pumpkin patches fill up quickly, and the best parking spots and plumpest pumpkins go early. Showing up at opening time can mean shorter lines, easier hayrides, and more room to ...

Some restaurants earn their fans with flashy signs and fancy menus. Others do it the old-fashioned way, one plate of fried chicken at a time. On the west side of Jacksonville, there is a ...

Soggy potatoes can ruin a perfectly good plate of eggs. Ohio has plenty of diners, but only some of them get the home fries right, with golden edges and soft centers that hold up to ketchup, cheese, ...

Rib tips are the chewy, saucy, slightly messy cut that Chicago barbecue was built on. They come from the end of the spare rib, and on the South Side they usually land on a bed of fries with a slice of ...

Some towns shout for attention, and some just sit by the river and wait for the right people to notice. In southeastern Indiana, one small city has been quietly catching the eye of retirees who want a ...

Iowa is full of little towns where the best dessert of your week is waiting behind a diner counter. These nine spots make their pies in-house, and some of them have been feeding neighbors and road ...

Some buffets save their best move for Saturday. In a quiet corner of Lorain County, one dining room rolls out crab legs on weekends, right alongside a hibachi grill where a cook fires up the plate you ...

Every August, Wisconsin lines up by the thousands for a cream puff at the State Fair, and honestly, nobody can blame them. The rest of the year, the good news is that you do not have to wait for fair ...

A good Italian sub is not complicated, but it is easy to get wrong. Thin meat, soft bread, and a sad slice of cheese will not cut it. Across Maryland, a handful of family-style Italian markets still ...

Alabama’s Gulf Coast has quietly become one of the friendliest places in the South to slow down and enjoy retirement. The beaches here have soft white sand, warm water most of the year, and a slower ...

Some dinners in Reno come with a surprise seatmate. At one downtown corner spot, the host may lead a party of two to a long table already holding a family of five, and nobody finds that odd. Bread ...

Every Georgian has an opinion about biscuits, and most of those opinions start with somebody’s grandmother. A good one should be tall, tender inside, and sturdy enough to hold fried chicken or a ladle ...