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Sublime Doughnuts – Atlanta, GA
So, here it was on my birthday and I had a business meeting at the office with a client in from out of town. I had wanted to swing by Revolution Doughnuts, (it was my birthday) to show off some of the uniqueness of our city, but I had also wanted to try Sublime Doughnuts […]
Three Blind Mice – Lilburn, GA
On this Saturday evening, we were out roaming around, ultimately heading toward Suwanee. As we were on the northwest side of Atlanta as late afternoon approached, I remembered that I had a restaurant on my list (AJC’s Spring Dining Guide, from 2012) in Lilburn that I had never made it, too. Lilburn is definitely not […]
Waterloo Burgers – Flowery Branch, GA
Owned by the same folks that have Moonie’s Texas Barbecue down the street, Waterloo Burgers opened in late January of this year. Someone with whom I travel quarterly was telling me about this place in May when we were visiting a common client and I had been wanting to give it a try, so two […]
Smokebelly BBQ – Atlanta, GA
Earlier this week, a lunch for two deal appeared on Travelzoo for Smokebelly BBQ, in Buckhead. I don’t know that I had heard much about the place, but the deal seemed to be a value (two plates, an appetizer and two non-alcoholic drinks for $29). Always interested in a deal, particularly when it involves barbecue, […]
El Rey Del Taco – Doraville, GA
On this Saturday of wandering around town, we found ourselves on the northern perimeter as my stomach began to rumble. I had just seen an article on Eater Atlanta about the best tacos in town and remembered that we were near El Ray Del Taco and the destination was set. Their al pastor tacos […]
Stone Soup Kitchen – Atlanta, GA
Another place from the original “list” (from August of 2006) gets a check mark in the box next to it, with a visit to Stone Soup Kitchen. Located off Boulevard, near 20, it’s not a “drive-by” opportunity on most occasions. Coupling that with my fear that, like every other breakfast place near there (Ria’s Bluebird […]
Gary Lee’s Market – Brunswick, GA
This post is brought to you courtesy of a comment I recently received on the review of Southern Soul Barbecue. Nichole said that if I liked Southern Soul (which I do), I should really give Gary Lee’s Market a try. Interestingly, on my last trip to Jesup, driving up from Jacksonville, I got off at […]
Miso Isakaya – Atlanta, GA
Tonight’s challenge: show up without a reservation and convince the maitre ‘d that you can eat and clear his only empty table before a 7:15 reservation. That’s exactly what happened when we arrived at Miso Isakaya. We succeeded on both counts – on getting the table, and on getting out by 6:45. After the fantastic […]
Dooky Chase’s Restaurant – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with several of the folks I work with, I had mentioned that we were going to Willie Mae’s for lunch on Friday. Several said “if you’re going to Willie Mae’s for chicken, you really need to go to Dooky Chases’s Restaurant“. So after roaming around several of the suburbs on a shopping expedition, […]
Willie Mae’s Scotch House – New Orleans, LA
Willie Mae’s Scotch House has been on my “to-try” list on the last half dozen trips to New Orleans, but business concerns haven’t aligned with the ability to get there. I first read about it in Garden & Gun’s “100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die”, several years back and today, […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 