Thru a fairly normal turn of events in my world (this night was the third time in two days) plans for a meal changed when we got to the place I planned to eat. This morning, I had seen on IG that Missfit’s BBQ was doing their last Monday night service at Communidad Atlanta, as […]
Birmingham has become one of our favorite day trips. Depending on what GDOT is up to, we can often get to downtown Birmingham, faster than we can cross Atlanta. This Saturday, we headed west for some afternoon shopping and an early dinner. By the time we’d looked everywhere, at everything, I looked at my list […]
There was a recent Eater article about the best Szechuan restaurants in Atlanta. Being a huge fan of this regional Chinese cuisine, I added six new spots to the list, including Hai in Decatur. This is the same list that gave me Sho Spicy, from earlier this year. When my wife and I were dating […]
There was a recent article in Eater Atlanta naming seven authentic Szechuan places in metro Atlanta that deserved attention. When I saw my fave, Masterpiece (which we’ve apparently eaten at for more than a decade!) on the list and I agreed with the review, I added the others to my list. So, when a good […]
Sometimes, the best plans are the ones that you don’t make in advance. For my lovely wife’s birthday week (it is a seven-day celebration) I asked her what she would like. Her answer was, “You know, I love to go thrifting…”. So, with the second snow apocalypse threatening for Atlanta (coming from the east, this […]
I had been reading about Smiley’s for a while, but we hadn’t been in Decatur, for lunch or dinner on a Tuesday – Saturday. So, on this random Friday, we took an afternoon to “gallivant”, which started with a trip to Smiley’s. Virtually across the street from Kimball House, parking is the typical challenge for […]
One afternoon, heading from Fayette county toward home, I rolled through downtown Fairburn at lunch time. When I saw the name painted on a brick building, with a parking lot full of trucks, I knew where I’d be stopping. Judy’s re- opened in this new location on Campbellton Street in February of 2025, having been […]
I have heard about Loveless Cafe for years, but we had never had the chance to dine there. About thirty minutes west of Nashville, we rarely get that far out of downtown, on our trips to the Las Vegas of country music. But, over July 4th weekend, we were there for a few days and […]
This is one of the few restaurants I’ve reviewed where I had to make a second visit, because it looked too “sketchy” to eat there the first time that I visited. On a Saturday night, about dusk, what appeared to be a semi-closed restaurant with a semi-abandoned parking lot was not the best looking choice […]
Heading to Disney to meet the family, we were coming in a day ahead of everyone else. I checked my list and found this entry from Texas Monthly’s “United States of Texas Barbecue”, back in September, 2024: ”The smell of fat dripping onto coals was in the air when I pulled up to Smokemade Meats […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 