Southern Food: Soul Food, Cajun/Creole food, BBQ in Boston (Springfield: home, military)

[snatale1]

Unfortunately the only places in Boston you can can legit Southern BBQ is in the ghetto neighborhoods. As it's been said Redbones is NOT BBQ! I've Lived in the South and outside the hood, it's all crap!

[HenryAlan]

I'll pile on with the anti-Redbones crowd. What you'll get there is an ample serving of attitude, but nothing very authentic food-wise. It's not necessarily a bad place to go, just not the authentic BBQ most people think it is.

Following on that theme, there are quite a few decent places in the category of enjoyable but not truly hitting the mark:

Blue Ribbon (Newton)
Village Smokehouse (Brookline)
BBQ Town (Roslindale)

All three tend toward the Carolina side of things and do a passable job, and in the case of BBQ Town, the greens are really fantastic. Aside from that, there are some good soul food places, agree completely on Mrs. Jones, and Chef Lee isn't bad, either. I used to enjoy cajun food at Dixie Kitchen, but regrettably they have closed.

[goyguy]

OMG somebody else remembers Dixie Kitchen! I must've hit that place >100 times during their years in business. They had fried alligator tail (in pieces, to be sure) on the menu, and I can attest that it does taste like chicken. The owner, Mary Gauthier ("that's goo-shay, y'all") has gigs at Passim on occasion. Dunno what her day job is now.

[HenryAlan]

Originally Posted by goyguy

OMG somebody else remembers Dixie Kitchen! I must've hit that place >100 times during their years in business. They had fried alligator tail (in pieces, to be sure) on the menu, and I can attest that it does taste like chicken. The owner, Mary Gauthier ("that's goo-shay, y'all") has gigs at Passim on occasion. Dunno what her day job is now.

It was a tremendous loss. My favorite was the grillades and the fried okra was a great appetizer. As often as I ate there, we must-must have been in the same room on more than one occasion.

[thenewtexan]

BBQ in Boston is like NE Clam Chowder in TX. LOL

[jon_day]

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[rizzo0904]

Drive to Sturbridge and visit BT's Smokehouse...now that's some good stuff!

[ckhthankgod]

Interesting, I was thinking that Dorchester, Roxbury, Cambridge and maybe communities like Lynn, Somerville or Everett would have something.

BTW- If you guys ever come to Syracuse, try Dinosaur BBQ.

[rizzo0904]

ckh....i LOVE dinosaurs!!

i *think* there is a good soul food place in dorchester, but i can't remember the name. i'll see if i can find it.

[rizzo0904]

Yup, try Mrs. Jones in Dorchester. I've never been but it gets great reviews.

2255 Dorchester Ave