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Southern restaurants in San Francisco / Bay Area

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  1.

    Hard Knox Cafe

    2526 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94107

    You'll think you're in some Delta soul shack (or a Disneyfied rendition thereof) when you settle in among the corrugated metal walls, worn leatherette... More »

  2.

    Broken Record

    1166 Geneva, San Francisco, CA 94112

    The Broken Record balances itself nicely along the fence between low-brow and highbrow cultures: tattooed bartenders, indie/alt-rock on the stereo, and cheap... More »

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    The Front Porch

    65 29th St., San Francisco, CA 94110

    The dish at Bernal Heights' the Front Porch is called Miss Ollie's chicken, and blends Caribbean and Southern influences. The fowl is brined with citrus... More »

  4.

    Queen's Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe

    3030 San Bruno Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134

    New Orleans' signature sandwich stars at this tidy, cheerful, Cajun and Creole Southern-style Portola hangout ambient with Carnival... More »

  5.

    Farmerbrown

    25 Mason, San Francisco, CA 94102

    Casually elegant Tenderloin venue serves up cajun and creole nouvelle soul cuisine: fried catfish, candied yams, and other classics prepared with locally raised... More »

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    Blue Jay Cafe

    919 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA 94115

    On weekends you can join the lines outside and patiently wait for Jay Foster's inexpensive, generous, delicious Southern-accented breakfast dishes. During the... More »

  7.

    Jillian's Billiards Club

    101 Fourth St., San Francisco, CA 94103

    This after-work hangout -- part of a national chain of club/restaurants with a billiards theme -- becomes a dance spot on the weekends.

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  • SF Weekly Anna Roth writes for SF Weekly on Hard Water

    It's all a bit mystifying why Charles Phan — who created both Slanted Door and Wo Hing General Store, and who just published a cookbook, Vietnamese Home Cooking, on the cuisine he's been making for the past two decades — would suddenly open not one but two New Orleans-themed restaurants in the same month. But he has. And at least at Hard Water — his bourbon bar on...

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  • SF Weekly Emily Wilson writes for SF Weekly on South

    Chef Charles Phan had one word when Randall Kline, the founder of SF JAZZ, asked the Slanted Door chef to take over the café South at SF JAZZ's new permanent space on Franklin and Fell.

    "I said, 'No,'" Phan said. "A lot of people ask me to do a lot of things, and the first thing I say is, 'No.'"

    But Kline, who now has a permanent home for SF JAZZ after 30 years, was...

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  • SF Weekly Katy St. Clair writes for SF Weekly on 1300 on Fillmore

    If "Rule 34" exists (the idea that if something is, there will be someone to sexually fetishize it), then it stands to reason that I can create a "Rule 44," which states that for any phenomenon there is an upper middle class, highly educated person who has turned it into an academic pursuit. Proof: There is something called Migration Studies. I guess it's for people who originally studied...

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