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Best Southern American Restaurants in Essex

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1. Aspen Restaurant
4.5
Awesome(1880)
$$$$
• Southern • Old Saybrook
Booked 9 times today
Outstanding, food creative, service incredible, nice wine selection.
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2. Café Routier
4.7
Exceptional(2185)
$$$$
• Southern • Westbrook
Booked 7 times today
delightful first experience. food, service, ambience very good.
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3. Luigi's Restaurant - Old Saybrook
4.9
Exceptional(252)
$$$$
• Southern • Old Saybrook
Booked 4 times today
Absolutely delicious…as always! Service and food were outstanding!
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4. Cast Iron Chef Chop House & Oyster Bar
4.7
Exceptional(1484)
$$$$
• Southern • New Haven
Booked 40 times today
We celebrated my grandson’s 13th birthday at Cast Iron Chef, and had a wonderful time! The service was excellent, as always. I’ve been here many times, and each visit seems to get better. It’s definitely a restaurant I would recommend to anyone looking for great food and outstanding service!
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5. Osa
4.8
Exceptional(834)
$$$$
• Southern • Middletown
Booked 12 times today
Consistently fabulous drinks and food! Creative and flavorful!!!
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6. Black-Eyed Sally's
3.9
Excellent(1439)
$$$$
• Southern • Hartford
Booked 19 times today
Great place, magnificent food, The closest I've gotten to New Orleans since I've been to New Orleans two years ago!
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7. Vine Street Cafe
4.7
Exceptional(2075)
$$$$
• Southern • Shelter Island
Booked 14 times today
Once again we really enjoyed ourselves dining at your great restaurant
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8. The Cafe - Westerly
4.7
Exceptional(512)
$$$$
• Southern • Westerly
Booked 13 times today
Café is awesome. Service is great. Food is great atmosphere is lovely.
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9. J. Gilbert’s – Wood Fired Steaks & Seafood – Glastonbury
4.8
Exceptional(11012)
$$$$
• Southern • Glastonbury
Booked 99 times today
Amazing service & food! We will go back again & again.
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10. The Restaurant at Weekapaug Inn
4.3
Awesome(731)
$$$$
• Southern • Westerly
Booked 4 times today
It’s late October so we were a handful of diners there. Lunch was lovely and our party really enjoyed the place. We will definitely add this restaurant to our rotation.

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