We don’t care what people say, we like Tacoma! In fact, we like it so much that we stopped by Southern Kitchen on our way back east. And Southern Kitchen is good. Very good. Excellent in fact.

So excellent is it, that Guy Fieri—probably the best chef ever!—featured it on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, aka the Citizen Kane of food television. We kid you not. About it being a featured restaurant at least.

Douchebag love aside, Southern Kitchen is pretty dang good. We are, not surprisingly, talking southern cuisine here, which includes their quasi-famous sweet potato pie, and awesome it is.

Yet, still, I have to say the combination of catfish, grits, and their hot sauce might have had it beat. Chicken & More right here in Spokane does an excellent catfish, but honestly, Southern Kitchen does it better. Pair it with their mango lemonade—served in a jug the size of my head—and you got a meal going. And of course, everything is prepared from scratch.

Find Southern Kitchen on 1716 6th Ave in Tacoma.

As for our favorite Guy. Well, SNL might have said it best…