The ultimate destination for the Great Northeast Road Trip of 2025 was Maine – Acadia National Park for me and Anyplace With Fresh Lobster for my wife! Venturing down to Bar Harbor, we rolled into the Travelin’ Lobster for late lunch, after going out on a lobster boat in the morning. All over that part […]
The first visit to Pizza by Yandy’s was a fail – we walked into Carniceria Los Pinos, where their pizza stall lives, on a Sunday afternoon and were greeted with “the pizza place is closed on Sundays”. I wished I’d thought to counter, “that’s okay. Where’s the masa?”, but I wasn’t thinking quick enough. So […]
On our great Northeast road trip, the stop at mile 1126 was Louis Lunch, in New Haven, CT. Open since 1895 (although the entire building was moved to the current location) Louis Lunch is the inventor of the hamburger sandwich as we know it today. , Two blocks off the campus of Yale University, they […]
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 […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 