Buffet-style means you get up and load your plate from groaning tables. Family-style means you sit at huge tables and the eats come to you. Miss. Set in an old railroad hotel, you sit at one of three giant, two-tier Lazy Susan tables piled with heaping platters of food.
Guests help themselves as the top tier of the table spins.
Fla. Another Southern boardinghouse. When you walk in, you're pointed to a table for 10 to 18 people, and before you hit your seat, you are surrounded by platters of fried chicken, hot biscuits, sweet potato souffl and a dozen other Dixie specialties. This is a spectacular, grand Southern mansion where you can eat to your heart's content. No matter how big an appetite you have, you cannot taste some of everything unless it's really teensy-weensy. Another regional specialty is burgoo, a thick, spicy stew of meat and vegetables.