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Surprises await around every corner of Charlotte’s quirkiest neighborhood, NoDa—short for North Davidson, its everyone’s-welcome main street.

Motor Lodge Remake—Durham’s new digs captures the young energy of the city

As a fourteen-year resident of the Outer Banks, Scott Smith is the newcomer among the four owners of Outer Banks Distilling. The other co-owners are lifelong residents, not uncommon among business owners on the coastal island chain.

North Carolina’s capital city is full of charm with a Southern food narrative exploring both its deep roots and intersections with other cultures.

Cheetie Kumar loves the warmth of the people and sense of community in Raleigh. At her restaurant, Garland, she serves the foods of her childhood, re-focused through a Southern lens.

The dinner bell rings three times a day at the Lodge on Little St. Simons Island, Georgia

Bluffton is among the fastest-growing towns in South Carolina, yet it retains its small-town character and seriously enchanting landscape. It’s a community that lives close to the land. Or, more precisely, to the water.

Imagine biking through the Tuscan countryside and staying at a stylish auberge, where the pasta is homemade and the wine cave is deep—in the Blue Ridge foothills.

On Kiawah Island, a Southern mansion writ large

Upstate on the Upswing — Greenville, South Carolina, is a big little town tucked in the folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A wave of chefs returning to their hometown after successful careers afield are joining Columbia’s broadening legion of homegrown culinary talent. The result? A quiet bubbling-over of brilliance in the kitchens and bars of this capital city college town.

As Charleston, South Carolina, celebrates its 350th birthday this spring, much of the city’s vitality seems to be migrating up the peninsula to neighborhoods like Cannonborough/Elliottborough.

Since becoming the national media’s Southern food darling in the last decade, Charleston, South Carolina’s dining scene has grown exponentially, both in style and geography. Yes, shrimp and grits is still on menus, but so is okonomiyaki.

Old meets new in the heart of the Holy City.

The capital city’s blend of old and new school food is well worth a visit.

Once a fading American steel city, Birmingham is poised to make its mark among the great food towns of the South.

Georgia’s Greyfield Inn offers refined accommodations amid a wild landscape.

Argentine chef and cookbook author Francis Mallmann is known for elemental, open-fire cooking—though he opened his only stateside restaurant, Los Fuegos, at Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel, where excess is the air you breathe.

A handful of dedicated chefs and growers are transforming South Florida into a hotbed of Indian regional cooking.

Once a neighborhood that played host to the likes of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Miami’s Overtown is getting its grove back

This South Beach Sanctuary is a relaxing refuge on the Sunset Strip.

While keeping its laid-back, under-the-radar cool, St. Pete is shining brighter every day.

Luxe Digs in the Heart of the Delta

Put away your phone—the gems of Mississippi Highway 1 are unmapped.

The once-staid capital city has more to boast about than monuments and museums. Local writer Norie Quintos fills us in.

José Andrés has been quite the media darling in recent months due to his vocal opposition to President Trump’s stance on immigrants. But the food world has long known the James Beard Foundation award-winning chef for his influence on the way Americans dine out these days (Like small plates? Thank him.) and his work fighting […]

Hemmed in part by the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries that carve its lush coastline, Annapolis is a knockout of a town.

In recent years, the colonial city center has seen a renewed sense of pride with compelling reasons to linger, including top-notch restaurants, thriving farmers markets, and a full slate of year-round festivities.

Charlottesville is Jeffersonian grandeur and college town energy, with a good dose of creative entrepreneurialism.

While the media has been obsessing over other Southern cities, Richmond has quietly grown into a standout food town. From a glam candy maker to a heavy metal restaurateur, meet the folks making it happen.

Home to a winning college basketball team and legendary thoroughbreds, Lexington, Kentucky, scores big in the sports world. But it’s more than hoops and horses.

Cheap rents have lured food-centric visionaries to this gritty, industrial neighborhood to pursue their culinary dreams

A revamped Main Street, an infusion of trendy eateries, and an Innovation District where millennial entrepreneurs live and launch tech businesses by the dozen, Chattanooga earns its place among Southern cities.

Call it grit. Call it soul. No matter how you slice it, there’s something about Memphis.

Given the Vandyke’s moniker as a “bed and beverage” and its curated aesthetic throughout, it follows that the property’s bar menu has equal attention to detail.

From meat-and-threes to ticketed tasting menus, these are our Music City musts

In the historic district near the heart of downtown, locally owned restaurants both new and old thrive, and neighbors from across town find the big city’s small-town vibe firmly in place.

Centrally located in Nashville’s business and art district, the Fairlane is close to Broadway’s honky tonks, but far enough away that you don’t need earplugs to sleep.

Reigning as the grand dame of Arkansas for more than a century, the Capital Hotel anchors downtown Little Rock.

When Kristen Kish isn’t at her restaurant, Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas, she can be found at one of her trusted favorites.

With its retro furniture and centerpiece courtyard pool, the East Austin Motel harkens to the motor courts of yore. But a serious dose of urban style updates the look for a new generation.

School pride is strong in College Station. The home of Texas A&M, it’s affectionately referred to as Aggieland, a fitting nickname for a town where alums have made a habit of sticking around and opening businesses.

Pearl’s food scene attracts residents and visitors in equal measure.

Playground of the Southwest, Galveston manages to reinvent itself and draw travelers eager for a warm breeze and good bite to eat.

Valencia Hotel Group’s latest opening in its court-style line of boutique hotels debuted earlier this year in Irving, Texas’ Las Colinas neighborhood.

All South Louisiana road trips should begin with boudin. There’s something about taking a steering-wheel grip to a long, curved link of the Cajun delicacy; the promise of hot pork, rice, and spice pulsating in your hands; the snapping of the sausage in two, forcing the link’s thin casing to audibly crack like the starting pistol at a race.

Turning 300 this year and still topping food and travel lists, New Orleans is a city that sits squarely at the junction of the old and the new—and its Bywater neighborhood is a near perfect microcosm.

Thanks to its riverfront location six miles northwest of the French Quarter, the neighborhood feels refreshingly local.

Inventive developers resurrected the four-building complex, transforming it into a sophisticated but decidedly unstuffy seventy-one-room hotel.

Leaving New Orleans, it’s about an hour drive across Lake Pontchartrain and into Covington, Louisiana, the forty-two-room hotel anchors downtown Covington.

The new Crescent City hotel is like visiting the apartment of your posh friend who happens to collect art as a hobby.

Known for its swampy bayous, rollicking roots music, and dishes that are stuffed, smothered, and stewed, Cajun Country is a bastion of American regional culture.