This house of Southern-style cuisine from chef Hoover Alexander and his team continues to purvey the sort of down-home, stick-to-your-ribs dishes, so rich with flavor, that make your palate and stomach sure that there must be a heaven and Hoover’s might just be an outpost of it. Soul food, indeed.
Finalists: Country Boyz Fixins, Fixe Southern House, Olamaie, Sawyer & Co.
