The 15 Best Places for Southern Food in Houston

Social News Network: This restaurant is wonderful. The line will be wrapped outside the door and the grits are amazing. Ask for their hand squeezed lemonade as well and arrive before 12pm if you don't want an hour wait.

Casa Deleon: Chicken & waffles and the turkey croissant breakfast sandwich!

Alkeisha S: Great coffee, catfish, and grits.

Sean Stoner: Biscuits are awesome as well as pour-overs. Flat white is delicious as well. Nice atmosphere to relax.

My Table Magazine: The crispy-bottomed tender biscuits are without peer, and when you get the sausage, cheese and egg rendition, it’s a great start to the day. Note that Blacksmith is only open until 5 pm.

Eric Pan: 3rd wave coffee with a Vietnamese twist. Great breakfast items like biscuits with jam and butter and Vietnamese steak and eggs with French bread and pate

Jennifer Martin: Sit at the bar to get great wine recommendations and see all of the fabulous food pass by: fried egg sandwich, fried chicken, wagyu burger or "haute" dog, duck taquitos - can't go wrong here !

Sharon Hall: Southern fried chicken is the best aswell as the sourhern cornbread!

Deena Sellers: The Eggs MAX are to die for at brunch - collard greens were the best part. Ask for Josh and he will treat you like family :-)

Houston Chronicle: Don't miss: Lucille's Famous Hot Rolls; Shrimp and Grits; Fried-oyster sliders; Caesar salad; Backyard Tomato Salad; Roasted Cobia; Pan-roasted Chicken; Fried Yard Bird; Red Velvet Cake. Read more.

Marion D: The soup du jour and Lucille's chili biscuits make a good light lunch if you're not too hungry...or just want room for dessert!

James Hearne: outstanding and well presented soul food... I will be back!

Krysti Bush: Just had the chicken and waffles with mac and cheese to die for every Sunday

Houston Press: Try the Frito pie mac n cheese with ladles homemade chili, top it off with more cheese, add on Fritos, and serve it piping hot and heaping inside an mini cast iron skillet

Ashley E: For the cheese lovers. This place is great please get the Mac & Cheese so darn cheesy and good 😋☺

Princy Mohan: Really tasty Buttermilk fried chicken and waffle!

Bing: Why Famous: Regional favorite featured in local news. It's also part of Houston's growing waffle trend. Serves both sweet & savory waffle sandwiches.Specialty: Chicken waffles are a crowd pleaser

Bing: Regional favorite featured in local news. It's also part of Houston's growing waffle trend. Serves both sweet & savory waffle sandwiches.Specialty: Chicken waffles are a crowd pleaser

💋Tina Vance: The Best darn soul food in all of HOUSTON!!!!!!!

M B: Yummy soul food!! Friendly staff...cafeteria style restaurant....a lot of history. Highly recommended!!!

The Platfxrm Online: This is Houston's best soul food restaurant by far. Although the meatloaf we tried was a little on the salty side, the rest of the food was awesome. A must-go when you're in Houston.

Houston Press: Breakfast/Brunch: 8am-3pm. Crispy chicken & waffles are a must try!

Laura Chan: Houston Press 2013 Favorite Dishes - Chicken and Waffles

Mena Migally: Atmosphere/ambiance is great! Crispy Chicken Waffle was a great first time experience - however I would have preferred if the chicken was hot and fresh vs the cold one I had

Larry Ness: Fried chicken delicious!!

L b: Fried chicken is🔥. Mac and cheese, potato salad, baked beans all delicious. Wash it down with a cold Shiner!

David Reed: Great fried chicken although all the chicken is spicy here.

Jon Dutton: Best soul food in Houston!...

Houston Press: 2011 Best of Houston Winner: Best Soul Food Restaurant. Check out more Houston Press Best of Houston Winners here: http://bit.ly/JCaGyR Or go mobile with the free Best Of app.

Lisa K: Huge southern portions! The mac and cheese is deliciously creamy

Pamela Gleeson: You must dine hear! Turtle Soup, Shrimp w/ goat's cheese grits, creamed collard greens -a trully orgasmic gourmet New Orleans-stlyle experience.

Jennifer Martin: Order their specialties - loved the Shrimp Chippewa (shrimp and grits prepared tableside with lots of flame !), and save room for the bananas foster Read more.

Tere Perry: You can never go wrong with hearty Texas Shrimp & Grits paired with Bayou City Beignets for dessert, but if Snapping Turtle Soup is on your dining must-eats, you'll find it here!

Erika Yanez: You have to try to Mac and cheese with pork belly!

Jenn: Oysters, oysters and more oysters! Loved the Mac and cheese here. Good company, great libations, but service is blah though.

Jeri Neely: Great restaurant and atmosphere. Very attentive staff and food is great. King crab, Dungeness and Mac and cheese awesome.

Kimberly Randle: So impressed !! Best chicken fried chicken in Houston !! Grits & Eggs go sooooo hard :) - awesome hidden treasure & good service - bring an appetite

Amber Johnson: Tha chicken fried chicken with eggs, grits, n toast is tha BOMB!!!!!!!

Angela Garza Offoegbu: Come early! They usually run out of their fresh, homemade biscuits around 11am.

Rashida JRoss: The cornbread is delicious!!!

Gloria Klein: Holy balls this place was amazing!!!! Collard greens were exceptionally perfect, twice baked potato was wonderful, best hush puppies I've ever eaten, etouffe my hubby salivated over. A+++++++++

Razan Muhtaseb: The Mac n' Cheese was amazingly rich & scrumptious. The sauce for the Crawfish Etouffee was so creamy- it's to die for! Huge portions! Desserts look so yummy! I want to try their Pecan Pie.

Daren Welsh: Chicken & Waffle and Texas Rodeo breakfast tacos for Sunday brunch can't be beat

Erika Yanez: the mac and cheese is the best!

Jamie Hoang: Ask for Mark. Greatest server ever! Had good suggestions and humor. Had a delightful dinner. Try the Mac & cheese and duck quesadillas.