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El Pinto – Albuquerque, NM
For our first meal on this road trip, before leaving, I googled for the best New Mexican restaurants in Albuquerque. One name was at or near the top of several lists and I confirmed it with the visitor center guy / gal at the airport – El Pinto Restaurant. Located in the North Valley, we […]
Fincher’s Barbecue – Macon, GA
I stopped for lunch at Fincher’s Bar-B-Q, after a morning meeting in Macon. I had not eaten at Fincher’s for at least eight years, and they had recently come back to my memory after reading the 29 Barbecue Bucket List article last month. In it, Myron Mixon (you may know him from the Destination America […]
Nan Fine Thai Dining – Atlanta, GA (Photo Blog Post)
For at least eight years, I’ve driven by Nan Thai Fine Dining at a minimum rate of three times per week – that’s a minimum of 1200 drive-bys without a stop-in. What I didn’t know was that Nan is one of 11 Atlanta restaurants rated as a AAA 4 Diamond award winner for 2015, which […]
Thirteen Pies – Atlanta, GA
Our newlywed daughter and son-in-law have set an admirable food goal for the summer – knock as many places off Creative Loafing’s 100 places to Eat in Atlanta list as they can. When they called and asked if we’d like to meet for dinner, I told them to pick a spot from the list, in […]
521 Kitchen & Cue – Atlanta, GA
For the last several years, our 4th of July ritual has been: participating in (please not that I did not say running) the Peachtree Road Race; followed by a quick shower; and then, ribs. And after a particularly challenging incident in finding said ribs a couple of years back, it has sinceinvolved planning where we were […]
Veruni Napoli – Atlanta, GA (Photo Blog Post)
As I didn’t get around to posting this timely and I can’t remember all the details of the meal, I’m now posting this restaurant as a photo blog.
Bludso’s BBQ – Atlanta, GA
Bludso’s BBQ opened last August on Walker Street in West End and I don’t know that I’ve heard a single person talking about. (Spoiler alert: people should be talking about it – this is seriously good brisket.) In fact, I drive through that section of town about three days a week, but had never noticed […]
Gabe’s Downtown – Douglasville, GA
At some point in the last few months, a new restaurant has opened in downtown Douglasville. We first noticed it when we went to look at the 1950s McDonald’s “set” they had built for the Ray Kroc biopic that was filming here last month. We were excited to see they had opened – one of […]
Masterpiece – Duluth, GA
Masterpiece popped onto my radar with a small blurb in Atlanta magazine (you can read it yourself – it’s the last one on the wall on the left in the picture below) last month. It was a small article about food happenings around town and told briefly of Chef Liu’s path, starting in Atlanta at […]
Amos BBQ & Biscuits – Ballground, GA (Photo Blog Post)
On an early summer afternoon, we were working our way across north Georgia with some friends, stopping and shopping and heading towards lunch. Amos’ BBQ & Biscuits, in Ballground, was our planned lunch stop. My original directions for Amos’ was not a street number and zip code, but rather a crossroads of two state highway […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 