Category Fine Dining
Gun Show – Atlanta, GA
Since I first heard about Gunshow, I was intrigued. A dinner at Woodfire Grill in 2007 or 2008 really kick-started this fine dining obsession – and Kevin Gillespie was the kicker. When I watched an interview about what he was planning to do at Gunshow (in east Atlanta’s Glen Park neighborhood), I knew that we […]
king + duke – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. For the last several month, all of the buzz on the restaurant blogs has been about the opening of Ford Fry’s newest venture, king + duke. When our daughter mentioned it (after reading about it on line) as a potential destination for her birthday dinner, I did not hesitate to make […]
JCT – Atlanta, GA
Several years back, before I started taking pictures of my food, we had dinner at JCT on a couple of occasions. But I had never had their fried chicken. As Ford Fry seems to be the “it ” chef in Atlanta right now, I’d seen several reviews in the last several months, all talking about […]
SOHO – Vinings, GA
For Valentine’s Day, we were looking for a spot on the way downtown and SOHO was one of the places that popped up with an open reservation. We actually attempted to eat there a couple of years ago – we even had a reservation. But I confused where we I had made the reservation with […]
Rathbun’s – Atlanta, GA
For the last four years, I’ve been intending to eat at Rathbun’s but, for whatever reason, it hadn’t worked out. When we were looking for a dinner spot for four and the place Jo had chosen had recently closed, I thought today might be the day. I went to Rathbun’s and there was an opening […]
Bacchanalia – Atlanta, GA
For the last three or four years, every list I’ve read relating to Atlanta’s restaurants has listed Bacchanalia as the top restaurant in the city. About once a year, we have a “big night out”. This year, Bacchanalia was the destination. I started looking for reservations for this weekend and the only slot available (before […]
Local Three – Atlanta, GA
(This is actually a compendium of several visits) One of our favorite dinner / lunch spots is Muss & Turner’s in Vinings. When we saw that they were opening a new restaurant with chef Chris Hall, Local Three Kitchen & Bar, we got excited. They took over the old Jo-el space off Paces Ferry. Our […]
Husk – Charleston, SC
As we prepared to head to Charleston I researched all my food sources and without question every one of them said that we should have a meal at Husk. About three weeks before we left I started trying to make a reservation. I looked at Tuesday night. Then Wednesday night. Then Thursday night. And there […]
FIG – Charleston, SC
When I found we were heading to Charleston for business, I looked at all of my food resources and identified the places that I wanted to dine: Rockaway Athletic Club (in Columbia, on the way up Hominy Grill Husk (where I was wait-listed for a reservation on three different days) and FIG. You have to […]
Aria – Atlanta, GA
Over the last several years, Aria has kind of faded from the limelight of Atlanta dining. Not because of a degradation of service or a decline in the quality of the food, but due to the overwhelming number of restaurants in Atlanta. Maybe it was the change in the dining scene focus to New Southern […]
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