When the Boston Culinary Trail is established, 604 Columbus Ave. will be a mandatory stop. From the late 1960s through the 1980s, this was the location of Bob the Chef’s, the city’s foremost soul food restaurant, where you’d go for ribs, chitterlings and glorified fried chicken. The sweet-potato pie was legendary.

After owner Bob Morgan sold the business in 1990, Bob’s became Bob’s Southern Bistro, a New Orleans-accented eatery-cum-boite and, more recently, Circle, a pricey French cafe that opened and promptly closed. Now, under the proprietorship of former Barking Crab director of operations Ziad Chamoun, it’s morphed into a restaurant/lounge with nightly live music, called Stork Club Boston.