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 for dinner. But a couple of weeks later, on a Monday, for lunch (which I had found out – the hard way – was a time most soul food restaurants in Atlanta are not open), I decided to give it a try.

Right off I-20, and to the right off the MLK exit, lives Jamal’s Buffalo Wings. They’re on the back corner, closest to I-20, on the ground floor of a 4 story building, with no working rest room on that floor. The restaurant was very clean and the young lady that helped me was very pleasant. I ordered a 10 piece: half medium, half lemon pepper.

They were cooked to order and cooked right. Very meaty – good tug from the bone with the meat. Jamal’s started as a food shack near the Georgia Dome, but moved west on MLK years ago. The lemon pepper was good, I’d pick the Buffalo style over them, if I were to visit again.