Category Fine Dining
Kimball House – Decatur, GA
Kimball House had been on my short list for many months before Southern Living named it the best new restaurant in the South in August of 2014. Since they don’t take reservations, I knew that getting a table would be even more of a challenge after the article came out. For our anniversary, as a […]
Atmosphere French Restaurant – Atlanta, GA
Located in Ansley Park, I’ve driven by the cottage that is home to Atmosphere French Restaurant dozens of times, but I’ve never stopped in for dinner. It’s been on “The List” since 2006, but rarely do I get a hankering for French food, so it hasn’t risen near the top. In a recent conversation with […]
Quinones at Bacchalia – Atlanta, GA
Warning – this is a really long blog post, it may became the first chapter of my attempt at the Great American Novel… Two months ago, on a visit to Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams with some friends, I took the opportunity to walk down the stairs at Westside Provision District to see about making a […]
Komi – Washington, DC
When I opened up “the lists” to find C F Folks earlier in the day, I took note of the other five District options, and before I headed to lunch I looked about making a dinner reservation. But here’s the delimma – OpenTable (my go-to food planning site) won’t let you make a reservation for […]
Horseradish Grill – Atlanta, GA
For Saturday night , we had a change of times for dinner, necessitating a change of locations. Horseradish Grill won the coin toss. I’ve known of Horseradish Grill for years but, for whatever reasons, we’ve never been. Arriving about 6:30, we were surprised at how empty it was. And even moreso that we were seated […]
The Butcher and the Baker – Marietta, GA
You know how baseball players and point guards get in hitting or shooting slumps? We were in a fine dining slump. It seems as if the majority of the last new, nice places that we went had gone to had been disappointing. (Sure barbecue joints, diners and ethnic restaurants can be nice, but I’m talking […]
Thrive – Atlanta, GA
Two weeks before Valentine’s Day, I pulled up 6:30 on the 14th on OpenTable and looked at every place with an “open table”, then gave the choice to my beloved. Thrive was chosen. Located on Marietta Street, right at the intersection with Spring, I’ve driven by it many times and never noticed. I guess it […]
Abacus – Dallas, TX
In town for a meeting, when we were looking at dinner choices, I was reminded that Kent Rathbun (brother of Atlanta restauranteur Kevin Rathbun – of Rathbun’s, Rathbun Steak, KR Steakbar and Krog Bar) was Dallas-based. In fact, we had just seen the two of them on a Chopped re-run on Sunday afternoon. I Googled […]
St. Cecilia – Atlanta, GA
As I follow @cheffordfry on “the Twitter”, when I saw the tweet at the end of December that that they were looking for folks to test the kitchen at St. Cecilia, I jumped on the opportunity. He specifically said, “no critic, por favor”, and I mentioned that I was an amateur blogger in my e-mail. […]
Colicchio & Sons – New York , NY
As we were taking a break from wandering in the snow on Saturday, I began looking for a spot for dinner. When I sorted the available options on OpenTable by “ratings”, I saw that Colicchio & Sons had a reservation available at 5:00. As restauranteur / chef Tom Colicchio is the mastermind behind one of […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 