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The Roosevelt
Modern Southern
A Church Hill dining room in a building old enough to have opinions, the Roosevelt runs Modern Southern cooking through a genuinely soulful lens. The chef, a 2026 James Beard semifinalist, draws on food-anthropologist sources and old family recipes, so the menu feels more inherited than invented. Virginia bottles anchor the drinks list, with regional beers and inventive cocktails filling out what's become a quietly serious beverage program.
The awards strongest first
- AAA Three Diamonds
- Eater The Best Restaurants in Richmond, Virginia
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Leah Branch
One number, weighted & current 82
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Cornbread
“The menu is constantly changing but favorites include their cornbread, fried catfish, oysters or softshell crabs in season, cheerwine cake, and even a great burger.”
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Fried catfish
“The menu is constantly changing but favorites include their cornbread, fried catfish, oysters or softshell crabs in season, cheerwine cake, and even a great burger.”
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Cheerwine cake
“The menu is constantly changing but favorites include their cornbread, fried catfish, oysters or softshell crabs in season, cheerwine cake, and even a great burger.”
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Crab soup with saffron cream
“Think crab soup with saffron cream and bottagra and tobacco-smoked pork butt with Deb’s (as in food anthropologist and writer Deb Freeman’s) Nana’s collards.”
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