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.

The great, lively BBQ joint that the Valley desperately needed.

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.

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.

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

Rye Fox is an overpriced Southern restaurant near the Grove that’s not very good unless you’re in the mood to go clubbing for dinner.

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

Lucky Bird is a fried chicken stall in Downtown LA’s Grand Central Market with easy seating, and very solid fried chicken.

Post & Beam is a pizza and Southern food spot in Baldwin Hills.