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 […]
On this Saturday afternoon we were running some errands that started in Chamblee, then sent us towards the city on Roswell Road. As lunch approached, I looked on the list, saw that the Chastain was close by and hopped over to Resy and grabbed a 1:15 spot. As we pulled up, I told my beloved […]
The best summary of this place I saw, before heading in was, “it’s the kind of dinner mom used to take us out to, when I was a kid.” And if you’re an adult, of a certain age, who ate out in America j the 70s, you know why it was said. Think back to […]
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