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Best Southern Cooking

Tony's Southern Comfort Restaurant

Best Southern Cooking
John Anderson

"We put the big chef on the outside of the restaurant to convey the homey, relaxing attitude of Southern comfort," says owner Tony Herring of his fledgling restaurant's quirky mural. "But we took away the mustache, because we thought it made him look too Italian." Regardless, the authenticity of Tony's Southern Comfort Restaurant is as perfectly fried as their hushpuppies. Everything here is homemade with care, from the pork chops to the peach cobbler. Try the fillet of catfish, which will literally melt in your mouth or the vegetable plate for those of you in a lighter, noncanola-oiled mood.