The Southeast.
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18 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 18 of them.
The Triangle7
Mateo and Scratch sit in Durham with Fullsteam and the Q Shack, the Crunkleton and Lantern hold Chapel Hill, and the Pit works a pit in Raleigh.
Chapel Hill · 2
Raleigh · 1
The Barbecue Belt4
Whole hog and wood run the length of it: Lexington Barbecue in the Piedmont, then Parker's at Wilson, Grady's at Dudley and the Skylight Inn at Ayden down east.
Ayden · 1
Dudley · 1
Lexington · 1
Wilson · 1
Charleston2
Husk cooks southern produce on Queen Street and FIG works the market a few blocks away.
Atlanta2
Gunshow runs its dining room cart by cart, and One Flew South cooks inside the airport.
Charlotte and the Piedmont2
Sauceman's smokes in Charlotte and Stamey's has cooked Lexington-style pork across from the coliseum in Greensboro.
Charlotte · 1
Greensboro · 1
The Smokies1
Bryson City sits at the Carolina end of the national park, under the Kuwohi overlook.