Sally Bell's Kitchen ★ 4.4
Sally Bell's Kitchen has sold box lunches since 1924, founded by Sarah Cabell Jones and Elizabeth Lee Milton. House-made cupcakes and deviled eggs daily.
Signature: Box lunch, Deviled eggs, Cupcakes
Croaker's Spot is a soul food seafood restaurant in Manchester, Richmond.
Croaker's Spot on Hull Street runs Black-owned soul-food and seafood since the 1990s. Generous Southern plates and fried-fish platters daily.
Signature dishes: Fried whiting, Catfish, Mac and cheese
Address: 1020 Hull Street, Richmond, VA 23224
Sally Bell's Kitchen has sold box lunches since 1924, founded by Sarah Cabell Jones and Elizabeth Lee Milton. House-made cupcakes and deviled eggs daily.
Signature: Box lunch, Deviled eggs, Cupcakes
L'Opossum in Oregon Hill is David Shannon's quirky French-Southern fine-dining room. James Beard Best Chef Mid-Atlantic semifinalist (2016) and Southern Living's South's Best Restaurant (2018).
Signature: Snapper en croute, Foie gras, Tasting menu
Lemaire inside the Jefferson Hotel is named for Etienne Lemaire, Thomas Jefferson's maitre d'. Chef Patrick Willis since 2009; grande dame of RVA.
Signature: Virginia ham, She-crab soup, Tasting menu
Velma Johnson's soul food kitchen on 1st Street in Jackson Ward, opened 2009 by her son. Sunday-dinner Southern cooking in the Harlem of the South.
Signature: Fried catfish, Collard greens, Mac and cheese
Perly's on Grace Street is Richmond's daytime Jewish deli. House-cured pastrami and matzo ball soup; breakfast and lunch only, daily until 3 pm downtown.
Signature: Pastrami sandwich, Matzo ball soup, Latkes
Stella's on Lafayette has cooked the Dikos family Greek menu since the Lafayette opening in 2011 (the original Stella's debuted in 1983). Mid-week meze nights work through the by-the-glass Greek wine list.
Signature: Lamb shank, Spanakopita, Greek meze