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The sweet, moist cornbread at Kelsey & Kim's Southern Cafe in Atlantic City merits a course of its own.
The sweet, moist cornbread at Kelsey & Kim's Southern Cafe in Atlantic City merits a course of its own.Read moreTIM TAI

Kelsey and Kim’s Southern Café

American, Soul Food$-$$

Chef Kelsey Jackson’s casual cafe near Gardner's Basin has an easy neighborhood restaurant allure, boosted by a menu of soul food classics has proven to merit the hype, not to mention frequent reruns of its appearance on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. A platter of warm, moist corn bread is practically a course of its own, and it gets griddled brown and toasty if you come for breakfast. But if there's one dish here not to miss, it would be the Cajun catfish, which gets marinated overnight in a zippy oregano-cayenne spice before it's fried crisp inside a greaseless corn meal crust.

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Restaurant Details

201 Melrose Ave., Atlantic City, N.J., 08401
609-350-6800
https://www.kelseyandkims.com/