Baltimore gets most of the credit when people talk about crab cakes, but Pennsylvania has been quietly building its own case. From a white-tablecloth dining room above Pittsburgh to a cozy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee has plenty of fancy restaurants, but some of the best meals in the state still come with hush puppies, white beans, and a pile of slaw. Fried catfish is a true Southern tradition here, ...

Some days a single plate of shrimp just will not cut it. Georgia has a coast full of fresh catches and plenty of big buffets inland, so crab legs and shrimp are easier to find than you might think.

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 ...

Winnemucca sits right off Interstate 80, and plenty of travelers only know it as a gas stop between Reno and Elko. That is a shame, because this small high-desert town has some of the most ...

Oregon takes its salmon seriously, and some of the best smoked fish in the state does not come from a fancy restaurant. It comes from roadside stands, tiny coastal shacks, and century-old smokehouses ...

Some spots in Boulder ask you to pick just one cuisine, and that never feels quite fair when everyone at the table wants something different. There is a stylish two-level venue downtown where eight ...