Alta Adams is an excellent Southern spot in West Adams that’ll make you feel like you’ve found a second home.

Hatchet Hall is a Southern-leaning small plates restaurant in Culver City where you’ll actually leave full.

An excellent soul food spot with two locations in Inglewood (and one in Crenshaw), Dulan’s is a neighborhood institution.

My Two Cents is a Southern spot on Pico with the best shrimp and grits in LA.

Ms. B's M&M Soul Food is an Inglewood institution with some of the best soul food in the neighborhood.

The Serving Spoon is a classic diner in Inglewood that serves excellent Southern breakfast staples.

Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles has 100% earned its fame. Your stomach, wallet, and friends will all thank you.

Manuela is a modern Southern restaurant inside an Arts District gallery.

Stuff I Eat is a vegan restaurant in Inglewood with solid Tex-Mex and southern dishes.

The Hart and the Hunter, the all-day restaurant at the PaliHotel on Melrose, serves some very good Southern food. Go for a hangover-curing brunch.

Yardbird in the Beverly Center specializes in chicken and waffles.

Hot N Juicy Crawfish is a weird, eat-seafood-out-of-a-bag chain restaurant and where you go when life has dealt you the hardest of hands.

Piccalilli in Culver City combines Asian cuisines with low country flavors - with mixed results.

Hotville is a new hot chicken spot in Crenshaw that can trace its lineage back to the legendary Prince’s Hot Chicken in Nashville.

The Court Cafe is a comfort breakfast food haven in Ladera Heights. Be prepared to have leftovers (or be very full).

Hilltop is a very good daytime cafe in View Park-Windsor Hills that serves excellent coffee and grain bowls.