Monthly Archives: August 2012
Rosebud – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Home from college for the weekend and asked “where would you like to eat tomorrow”, our youngest said, “I really don’t care. Unless you want to go to that place for pimiento cheese.” I knew “that place” was Rosebud. So we headed to Morningside. Several years ago, we went to what-was-then-Food-101 […]
BGR: the Burger Joint – Atlanta, GA
About two weeks ago there was an article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle about the “burger wars” in Atlanta and one of the contenders was BGR: the Burger Joint. A place of which I’d never heard. Hmmmm. Challenge accepted. Plotting a trip into the city, we found ourselves in the parking garage of Atlantic Station, […]
Rathbun’s – Atlanta, GA
For the last four years, I’ve been intending to eat at Rathbun’s but, for whatever reason, it hadn’t worked out. When we were looking for a dinner spot for four and the place Jo had chosen had recently closed, I thought today might be the day. I went to Rathbun’s and there was an opening […]
Papi’s – Atlanta, GA
As our youngest was preparing to head back to college, we asked if there was a particular place that she would like to eat. Her first thought was Papi’s Cuban & Caribbean Grill, on Ponce de Leon. I’ve said for years that the best Cuban sandwich in Atlanta was at the old Havana Sandwich Shop. […]
Stackhouse – Dallas, TX
I was heading to Dallas for some meetings and, knowing my penchant for burgers, the folks in our office arranged our outside meetings around being in the neighborhood of Stackhouse around noon. We were coming from the north side of the city and arrived shortly after the other folks and found them waiting on the […]
Singleton’s Seafood Shack – Mayport, FL
On the way back to the Jacksonville airport from a meeting in Southeast Georgia, we had plenty of time to stop for dinner. The last time that we were making this swing (on a trip that included the Gold House and St. Mary’s Seafood and More), we discussed going to Singleton’s Seafood Shack but realized […]
Amazing Burger – Duluth, GA
While driving around Duluth a while back, I saw Amazing Burger in a strip shopping center in front of the Kroger on Steve Reynolds. I made a mental note of its location and thought that one day I’d swing by at lunch and see how it was. This Monday, with no one else around the […]
The Vortex Bar & Grill – Atlanta, GA
The Vortex Bar and Grill is a giant on the Atlanta burger landscape. When the Georgia General Assembly passed a law several years back requiring the removal of the smoking section from any restaurant that served children, 99%+ of the restaurants banned smoking all of the time. The Vortex was an anomaly. They said, basically, […]
Spiced Right Ribhouse Barbecue – Suwanee, GA
Eons ago, when my office was in Stone Mountain, I used to eat at the Spiced Right location in Lawrenceville. It was part of a regular rotation with Matthews Cafeteria (along with several other places that no longer exist). As the office moved north, first to Norcross, then to Duluth, Spiced Right grew further from […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 