Arnold’s Country Kitchen

This cafeteria-line meat-and-three is the platonic ideal of Southern comfort cooking, and it earned a James Beard America’s Classic award for it. You grab a tray, point at roast beef, fried catfish, turnip greens and squash casserole, and finish with the famous chocolate meringue pie. Go early for weekday lunch, because the line runs out the door and they close mid-afternoon.