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    Addie Lee's Soul Food

    4.3 (112 reviews)
    Open • 12:00 pm - 7:00 PM

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    Moderate noise
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    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    $14.88, wow!
    Rosa W.

    I was in Worcester recently for work and was in the mood for Soul Food and found this cute place close to where I was hosting my event. As soon as I walked in I was instantly greeted and welcomed. Looking at the menu I was conflicted on what to choose as everything looked so wonderful. I was encouraged to try the fried chicken so I went with the recommendation. I originally ordered a drumstick and thigh as I prefer dark meat but ended up with a drumstick and breast. The drumstick was fantastic, perfectly cooked, perfectly seasoned, and the skin was SO crispy. The breast meat was a little dryer than I prefer but to be expected with white meat. The sides however were wonderful. I ordered the collard greens and macaroni and cheese with yellow rice. This came with a slice of cornbread. Everything was delicious and generous with the portion. I'll definitely go back and encourage anyone to try it out.

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    I've been to this place a bunch of times since I started working in Worcester. This is the best place in the downtown area no doubt, and the best bang for your buck. My favorite is the beef rib. Always tender. Consistently delicious. The vibes in here are also dope. The brick wall to the right is covered with pictures of famous influential Black Americans. From musicians and athletes to civil rights leaders and other intellectuals, it's a cool spot. The music in there is always a vibe. I sit down to eat whenever I can. I haven't tried the oxtail yet but it's next on my list for sure.

    OxTails and Yellow Rice.  The Best OxTails in Woostah
    Juan B.

    This place feels like your grandma's cooking. Are you looking for authentic southern food in New England? Look no further. From the chicken to the Mac n cheese to the yams. Everything is top-notch. My Boy Rob is holding it down back there. Best OxTails in Worcester. Meaty and fall of the bone too.

    Baked Mac and Cheese Yellow Rice Collard Greens Cornbread Slice Medium Home Style Favorite

    Food: the chicken was cooked to the perfect tenderness and crispy skin. I also enjoyed it with the barbecue sauce as well. The mac & cheese has a nice balance to cheese and noodle, but could be a bit more creamy cheesey and the collard greens were made with just the right amount of salt/vinegar. Unfortunately, I wasn't the fan of a cornbread. It was a little bit dry to my liking, and it wasn't quite sweet enough either. Service: nice folks that have been in the business for years, def have serve themselves a spot on the community. Ambiance: it's a rather old school building that brings an old jazz to it, almost like a cafeteria in the 50's. However, they don't really have a sign to show you where this is so you just wanna look for a brick building that has the address number for you to actually find it. Location accommodation: it's near the Worcester Hanover, which is nice if you ever want some good soul food, but also parking is not so great and so you may need to take a little walk down.

    BBQ pork ribs, yellow rice, Mac-n-cheese, collard greens & corn bread
    Nathalie G.

    FINALLY, Saturday I hit Addie Lee's Soul Food (ALSD) on an open day. As the old saying goes..."y'all put ya foot in that!!!" For those who don't understand...EVERYTHING was AWESOME: appearance, texture, flavor price, staff & cleanliness = 5 Now ALSD how can we help you open up 1-2 more days? *Please excuse the shadow's photobomb, see the pic's caption for detail.

    Beautiful winter day!!!
    Swabarna M.

    Why didn't I try it earlier. Sad I missed the pork however smiling staff and although not much option but overall it is a good neighborhood staple. Would have given 4 star but had to take off 1 due to the taste on that days BBq sauce. It felt it was made with less time on hand and bit heavier on the ketchup. Would be back again as in the summer this is going to be my common work pickup lunch.

    Alan B.

    Stopped in here for a quick bite before a Music Worcester/Hanover Theater performance. It's small local place where you order at the counter, and they bring the food to your table when ready. It's very much a comfort food venue, and I was happy with the results on this, my first visit. The cashier suggested a hearty beef rib which comes with either white or yellow rice. I ordered a side of yams, though the large dinner comes with 2 sides. As I recall, this dinner costs about $10. The food arrived within a short time, less than 10 minutes. * The rib was delicious, tender, tasty. * The yam was excellent and sweet. * The rice was bland and a tad cool. Overall this warranted four stars, and I'd be happy to return.

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    Don't close 15 minutes early. No idea if the food is any good if you don't stay open your posted hours.

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    Love this place! Best soul food! Nicest people too! Parking is a struggle, but well worth it!

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    Everything excellent! Food...service...restaurant cleanliness just excellent! Authentic Southern cooking!

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    Excellent Food, great service will use them again. All the food was hot on arrival. Just lobe that

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    Great food! 5 stars all around!!! Great service, my plate was fresh and hot. Recommend Addie Lee's to my friends they love it too!

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    The Coop - Boneless 0.5 lb. Wings

    The Coop

    4.3(295 reviews)
    5.3 mi
    •$$

    Got take out from here and was happily surprised! The chicken wings were great! All the food was…read morestill hot when we got it home. The Mac and cheese was creamy and delicious! Defiantly a place to go if you are craving wings and anything bbq related!

    4.5/5 stars -- Went mid afternoon on a Monday so it was…read moreslow. My friend got the chicken sandwich and said it was one of the best she's ever had! I got the wings bone in with sweet chili and garlic buffalo. Really nice cook on the wings, but the garlic buffalo is way more garlic than one would presume so I just took them home and put more buffalo on them and that balanced them out really well. They have really good ranch. They also serve blue cheese. They do celery and carrots. I also got my husband some to go wings that they serve by the half pound when they're boneless and so he got a pound and a half and so every half pound you get a sauce option so he got three different sauces and he got the garlic buffalo also another one I can't think of right now and then he got this balsamic fig! It was the most interesting experience I've probably ever had on a piece of chicken was very, very good. There's street parking I don't think they have a parking lot but it's a small space. Honestly they probably do a lot of carry out just because I'm presuming only about 15 to 20 people could actually sit in the restaurant, but the quality of the chicken was really really high it wasn't that busy so the service was good That's it.

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    Pampas Churrascaria - Beef ribs (THE BEST) with yellow Brazilian rice and carrot salad (?) also amazing!!!

    Pampas Churrascaria

    3.9(175 reviews)
    0.9 mi
    •$$

    Damn ... this place got expensive! I went here several years ago and decided that I wanted to try…read moreit again. The prices had tripled. I am not blaming the restaurant because the world post-covid has gone absolutely insane from an inflation standpoint. With beef as their 'go to' and chicken no longer being a 'loss leader's (now costing what steak did two years ago, it's not the restaurant's fault. However, I nearly fell out of my chair when I learned the All You Can eat lunch price was nearly $50! For this type of 'cafeteria', a total shocker. The other (better) option is the pay per pound. $17 for salad bar and meat and $20 for just meat. I did the salad bar ... you'd be surprised how much two plantains and a slice of tomato weigh! Salad bar: The rice was very good. The plantains were perfect. The French fries were surprisingly good. They had all kinds of fresh vegetables, mayonaise-covered salads and a huge variety of items. I suppose it would be worth it to get this alone ... however this is where the heavy items that add weight to the price are. Meat station: The guy serving was nice enough but spoke maybe two words of English. I speak English, Spanish and French but no Portuguese ... so we had a difficult time when it came to relating how big a slice I wanted, or how many pieces. My guess is that he is hired more for his expertise running the grill than for serving. And he did a great job as the meat was cooked perfectly. Bacon wrapped chicken ... The only disappointment of the meal. The chicken (and bacon) was dry. It really didn't taste like bacon and the only reason I finished my piece was because I had paid for it. Flank steak ... So good! The outside had a nice char with a salty, almost crunchy texture while the inside was juicy and flavorful. This was my favourite item and I actually went back to get a second plate, despite how filling it is. Garlic steak ... Incredibly salty. A little goes a long way. I didn't get any garlic taste ... it was mostly just salt. I liked it but would choose the flank steak (which is also salty) over this as the marinade made it a little drier. Pork sausage ... Very nice. I didn't notice a huge difference between the spicy and non-spicy but it was cooked really well and it was flavorful. Pineapple ... Okay, this is a must get! This was oddly my favorite part of the meal. I have never had pineapple this good. It is done on the grill with the entire pineapple and they slice pieces off. It is covered in a brown butter sauce that is so flavourful, it is certainly one of the best pineapple dishes I've ever eaten. Because there was a line and the pieces of paper with the meat choices are mostly in Portuguese, I didn't get to try all I'd have liked to ask ordering felt rushed with the line waiting behind me. The all-you-can eat will likely give you the opportunity to try a little of everything. Overall, the better value seems doing the pay by weight and going back for seconds if you are hungry. My first plate was some salad bar stuff (tomato slice, cucumber, plantains, yellow rice and a few french fries) plus a strip of flank steak, bacon wrapped chicken and a pork sausage. That was $17 and I could have stopped there. My second plate was two strips of flank steak, a strip of garlic steak, a piece of pineapple and two plantains from the salad bar. This one was $12. My total with a $2.25 lemon aid (terrible and flavorless from a jug) and a tip was around $35. Expensive for lunch ... but I probably didn't need as much steak on round 2 as I left feeling stuffed. Everything was tasty and while the atmosphere feels more like a cafeteria in a Caribbean country ... and the seating arrangement makes you snake through tables to get to the salad bar or meat station, everything seemed spotlessly clean. I will certainly return again, despite a fairly high lunch price. If there is one tip I can give you ... don't skip the pineapple from the meat station.

    Amazing Brazilian food in the heart of Worcester!! Awesome place highly recommend!! Very good, good…read moreprices

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    Travelin Bones Bbq - Chili w/Cheese & onions

    Travelin Bones Bbq

    3.2(25 reviews)
    2.9 mi

    Very rude employees. Bottled bbq sauce not homemade. Dry macaroni and cheese. Cashier was rude and…read moreyelling at customers and seemed to yell and be yelled at my cook.

    Yeah, I wrote my first review of this place almost exactly two years ago and I was just starting…read moreout my BBQ Reviews. Since then I've been to over a hundred other places. I regret giving them 5 stars based off of the Ribs from that day and nothing else. I guess they have a second truck in Florida during the winter? Maybe they just take to truck to Florida for that season but it's a bit annoying because they keep saying where they are going to be but not what state. Anyways ... Still no regular brisket, just the sandwich. Now they have Egg Rolls ... yippee. I've come to a determining factor when it comes to the quality of BBQ spots. Unless they are known for them, if a menu has Egg Rolls or Loaded Mac and Cheese options ... it's probably bad. Need to spend a bit more time making your Mac and Cheese GOOD before throwing a bunch of bbq sauce and meat on it to make it look like it's good. And Egg Rolls are just ... no. Focus on the quality of the meat right out of the smoker, not all this dumb "how can we make it seem like fair food that dumb people will buy anyway". So Ribs were dry, not pre-cut like they were before, extra hard bark, Slathered in sauce to the point I was carrying a styrofoam carton of sauce with some ribs for garnish. Didn't even get a plastic knife to cut through them which wouldn't have worked anyway. Clearly these were cooked days ago and just reheated. And I was the first customer of the day. And they opened up 30 minutes late. Mac and cheese was extremely flavorless. That means it has so much NONE flavor to it that it sucks any flavor out of your mouth so you can't taste Anything. Just a White cheese sauce that should win a prize for least flavored food ever ... water has more taste than this. Coleslaw was too old, cabbage wasn't crispy anymore, drowning in mayo. Only reason I was eating it was because I needed to get the taste out of my mouth from the dry ribs. Oh and they had "on special" Fried Cornbread Bites ... Which is translated into Literal Language as "We have some old corn bread so well slice it up, butter it, and throw it in the frier for a few and charge more for it and call it a special" ... This is not quality BBQ. And they have 2 sauce options. Sweet and Hickory ... why they slathered my ribs in Sweet is beyond me. Doesn't matter anyway, they don't make either one of them. All these other 5 star reviews, especially the ones saying they've had BBQ in North Carolina and Tennessee and all that, If you don't eat BBQ like crazy then I guess you'll think it's great. Not every BBQ joint in the BBQ Belt is automatically some of the BEST BBQ on the planet. A LOT of them REALLY SUCK! But if your standards are chill then I guess you'll be okay with this place but personally I feel like you are getting scammed. Days old Ribs, Flavorless Mac and Cheese, Whole menu section dedicated to "Loaded" mac and Cheese to make it taste like something, Menu section dedicated to Egg Rolls to make it taste like something, Old Slaw, Brisket Sandwich but no Brisket plain, pictures posted of the same items aren't matching up, "Fried Cornbread" which is old cornbread but costs 3 times as much. Sorry, it's just not cutting it for me.

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    Cluck & Crispy Chicken

    Cluck & Crispy Chicken

    3.3(21 reviews)
    0.4 mi

    I was under the impression it'll be glazed style chicken like Bon Chon or bbq Chicken. I don't see…read moreanything Korean as they claim about the chicken. Either way, really solid fried chicken. Levels above Popeyes and KFC. Right to the stars now, drumsticks--spicy or regular. Can't go wrong with either or. Chicken is so deep fried. Really solid fried chicken here. They also got seasoning by the door with some fermented spices or spicy in general. Definitely worth trying if you need a bit more heat and extra flavoring. Also had wings--a bit too skinny imo. My preference here is drumsticks. Chicken nuggets- needs improvement Spicy Chicken wrap - needs improvement Popcorn chicken- very tender--definitely worth trying Grease- plenty of it Overall, their online ordering is seamless (accepts major cc and Apple Pay), and restaurant has good seating-- your general fast food style restaurant. Location is in downtown with very limited parking. Plan ahead if you're stopping in. Cheers.

    So I've been driving past this place for a very long time and they finally opened up…read more they've only been open for roughly about 5 months, the chicken is absolutely fantastic I ordered the spicy but it really wasn't as spicy as I would like it but still really good very nice place but I will say if you're coming here parking is going to be a challenge cuz there is next to zero parking anywhere if you're driving It took me 30 minutes just to find parking

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    Ruby Doos - Chicken wings

    Ruby Doos

    4.6(13 reviews)
    0.5 mi

    The wife and I were having a craving for Korean Fried Chicken, and I heard about this place in…read moreWorcester that served it before the city finally got a Bonchon. Situated inside the Worcester Public Market, which is right at Kelley Sq, parking can be a little hectic. Of the several times I've parked in this area, I've managed to find street parking by driving up either Green St. or Harding St. The interior is a bar countertop that wraps around the central kitchen area and bar stools. No traditional seating if you're hoping for a traditional restaurant experience. The server was very friendly and the whole place had a great young, kinda rebellious vibe going on. We ordered two things and were quite disappointed with the quality of the food and the immense wait time. Da Wangs ; we came here precisely for Korean Fried Chicken which is especially known for being double-fried. The cook pulled them out of the heating drawer - already fried as expected - and dropped them in the fryer... and then proceeded to disappear for several minutes. Oh no. The plating of the dish looks delicious, but biting into it... the worst fried chicken we've ever had. The skin was so hard and crunchy and the burnt taste was unavoidable. The only redeemable flavor was the very paltry glaze of hot honey on the wings. Gnocch Bokki ; we love tteokbokki and this seemed like a really interesting take on it. we watched the chef fry up the aromatic ingredients and mushrooms for what seemed like forever. AND he disappeared multiple times. We don't appreciate waiting 40-50 minutes for food for no damn reason. The rice cakes had a delightful crisp to them, but the duck was utterly dry and unenjoyable despite the sous vide description. The sauce was unpleasantly cloying after the first few bites. I don't know what I'm suppose to take from the flavor profile, but IMO it just tasted like a plate of hoisin sauce. The bartender/waitress talked about how she had past career experience as a food safety (or health?) inspector and it was interesting to listen to... and shortly after that she grabbed a bite off of a large sauced-up plate near the burners... and then the chef proceeded to use that same plate to glaze our wings. We will not be returning.

    This place doesn't have nearly enough raving reviews. I hope that changes…read more I love a subtle concept. Hip hop meets Korean fusion. Cheeky cocktail names. Original dishes. Everything executed *perfectly.* Started with the White Girl Woke. Perfect blend of flavors and not too sweet. Ordered Da Wangs. Word to the wise, they are massive. Delicious. Perfect Korean fried chicken crunch. Main was the Gnocch Bokki. The flavors were SO rich and decadent. I basically picked my plate clean. The food came with kimchi and white rice on the side. Overall fantastic meal. Service was good. Not overbearing. No fake friendliness. Efficient and helpful. The chef came out at one point as well. I complimented the fantastic food as well as the hip hop music piping in over the speakers. I'm currently trying to come up with an excuse to come back tomorrow.

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    The Fix Burger Bar - But far the worst salad... $19

    The Fix Burger Bar

    3.9(1.1k reviews)
    1.1 mi
    •$$

    A sports bar that serves up NFL replays from five years ago on a huge flat screen better have a…read moregreat kitchen. Luckily Fix Burger does. You basically buy the burger and then customize it according to your taste. Fast, friendly service and excellent fries that were far fresher then the half decade old clash between the Raiders and the Titans.

    I was in town for work and was looking for a place in walking distance from my hotel. The front…read moredesk recommended The Fix Burger Bar. In looking at the menu I really could not decided because all the burgers sounded amazing! I ended up ordering the Phenomenal Burger which has bacon, smoked gouda, fried egg, frizzled onion, sweet chili ranch all on a brioche bun. I arrived about 20 minutes after ordering. I walked into the beautiful red brick building where The Fix is located. The restaurants overall ambiance was very welcoming- The staff just as nice! This is not just a 1 review kind of place- The Phenomenal burger was SO GOOD that I went back the next day and had The Stark Burger which had 2 (1/4 patties) with double pepper jack cheese, red onion, thinly sliced jalapeno, bacon, chipotle mayo on a brioche bun! The Stark was just as good (in different ways) as the Phenomenal Burger- both were cooked to perfection! I will absolutely be back- because there are a number of burgers I still need to try......If you are in Worcester, MA and in the mood for a burger- be sure to put The Fix Burger Bar on your "must try" places.

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