re: Underrated Culinary towns/cities

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This. Just spent a few days there and was extremely impressed with the quality of restaurants and breweries given that it only has population of 60K.

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Are you glad you visited there? I keep thinking about taking a trip to Maine someday.

One more for Birmingham.

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Charleston, SC

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Damn right.

Glad someone finally mentioned Minneapolis - St. Paul. Butcher and Boar, Sea Change, The Happy Gnome, etc. I had a lot of good food there.

Milwaukee gets an honorable mention for its culinary ethnic diversity alone. All of the world's cuisines are represented there.

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Richmond

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I've heard its gotten better since I left. Anything south of the James?

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but that horse is incredible

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Sounds like a tag line on the playbill of a border town sideshow

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I've heard its gotten better since I left. Anything south of the James?

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When did you leave? I arrived in the Fall and people keep saying the food scene has improved over the last few years. The beer scene has exploded, turning Scott's Addition into the hip place to be.

South of the James is still a bit chain-y. I was impressed with Southbound, and I hear Laura Lee's is really good as well. A chain called Tazza has been quite popular, and they feature locally-sourced food. A couple of decent decent-to-good breweries have opened up in the Chesterfield Co. Beyond that, most of the good places are still in the same spots north of the James.