"Reopened in a former longtime seafood spot, this breezy, versatile space works equally well for relaxed brunch and refined dinner service, with comfy couches in a living-room–like entryway and gold light fixtures with lucite bar stools. The menus overlap at times (notably the pecan-meal hush puppies topped with pimento cheese and Benton’s smoked bacon powder), but the bar menu boasts a blended mushroom–beef smash burger that’s a bargain on Tuesday nights with a draught beer; an upstairs cocktail room was also planned to open for late-night classics." - Lyndsey Matthews