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Einstein’s – Atlanta, GA
Looking for a brunch spot, on Open Table (so we didn’t have to wait) on the way to midtown, you only have so many choices. I didn’t know that I’ve been to Einstein’s in at least five years and knew that I hadn’t blogged about it, so I grabbed the 10:45 slot and we parked […]
Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge – Shelby, NC
Red Bridge Barbecue Lodge, in Shelby, is one of the icons of North Carolina barbecue. In fact, they had recently won a barbecue bracket contest (think of a NCAA tournament bracket) sponsored by Garden & Gun magazine, as the national barbecue champion. You can check out the bracket here. You’ll notice several places we’ve visited […]
Barbecue Hut – Fayetteville, NC
In anticipation of looking for North Carolina barbecue near our daughter’s new hometown in metropolitan Fayetteville, I was striking out finding anything close. I “asked the Oracle”, twice, queried the Barbecue Brothers for suggestions and consulted Google. Both provided a couple of references, but nothing that cried out “eat here” with any authority. […]
BBQ Barn – North Augusta, SC
Since we hadn’t driven anywhere lately, we took off this weekend up to Fayetteville, NC to visit our daughter and her husband. If you’d have asked me the best way to get from Atlanta to Fayetteville, I never would have guessed that you would take I-20 east until it ends and drive briefly north, but […]
Over Easy – Birmingham, AL
As the road trip winds to a close, we were looking for breakfast. I considered a smokehouse that we could see from our hotel room, but googled instead for the best breakfast in Birmingham and found Over Easy was both well rated and close by. We pulled up to a packed restaurant, in the […]
The Hot and Hot Fish Club – Birmingham, AL
I first heard of chef Chris Hastings one day when we were having lunch at the Farmhouse at Serenbe. Marie Nygren, the owner, was telling another table about the next chef to be featured in their weekend chef series. She was raving about the food at Hot and Hot Fish Club and chef Hastings, who […]
Archibald’s Bar-B-Que – Northport, AL
One of the articles I saved earlier this year sent us to Northport, near Birmingham. Most folks, when they think of ribs in this area automatically steer toward Dreamland (on a side note, please don’t judge Dreamland based on visiting the franchise locations in Georgia – do yourself a favor and drive to Tuscaloosa, or […]
Big Bad Breakfast – Oxford, MS
“Lard have mercy”. That’s what it said on the t shirt that I was impulse buying at Big Bad Breakfast, because I found it so punny (apparently so did Dolly Parton’s manager, as the lady who checked us out told her that he had come in, with Dolly in tow, to purchase one for her). […]
Snackbar – Oxford, MS
We first visited Oxford, Mississippi several years ago on the way back home from a funeral in Memphis. Oxford was (kind of) on the way and we were looking for a different route home than we had taken there (the non-existent I-22). We had thought the town looked quaint and it fit our desired days’ […]
Abe’s Bar-B-Q – Clarksdale, MS
We rolled into Clarksdale, just ahead of a storm that we had driven through for most of the last 100 miles, following us like a “Hellhound on My Trail”. Driving south through Arkansas into Mississippi, we were going down to the crossroads, hoping to catch Abe’s Bar-B-Q, as opposed to a ride. Or the devil (like […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 