The food worth eating is rarely the food that shows up first in search results. It’s the barbecue joint with the hand-painted sign, the family-owned taqueria three towns off the highway, the bakery that’s been feeding the same neighborhood for forty years. Navigate Your State covers the dining scenes of twelve states with the same philosophy we bring to everything else — skip the obvious, find the real thing, and tell you exactly where to go and what to order.
There's a certain magic that exists only in a place that hasn't needed to change. I grew up in an era of drive-thrus and squawk boxes, of crumpled paper bags…
There's a certain kind of restaurant that reveals itself slowly. You drive past it once, twice, maybe three times before you finally walk through the door. It doesn't announce itself…