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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 […]
Canton House – Chamblee, GA
“You don’t disappoint.” That’s definitely a good start to a conversation when you get back into the car after a meal. Confession time: I’m fifty years old and have never had dim sum. As an extremely suburban child, in a town with no Chinese restaurants, it was one of those exotic ideas that you saw […]
Scott’s Walk-Up Barbecue – Cartersville, GA
Today, we took the name of Scott’s Walk-Up Barbecue to heart, as I thought they were located in a different spot than they actually are. I proudly wheeled onto Main Street and parked near the Booth (a wonderful museum, if you haven’t been) and hopped out – then couldn’t find the restaurant. I pulled up […]
Ecco – Atlanta, GA (Photo Blog Post)
Looking for Friday night dinner plans, at the last minute, our prime criteria was not having to wait. Open Table found us a 7:15 spot at Ecco and (to quote John Lee Hooker ) “out the door I went.” I had eaten at Ecco some years back, meeting a friend before a basketball game, but […]
Fresh Air Barbecue – Jackson, GA
As I said in an earlier update from the weekend, when I was a kid I remember there being five grand Georgia barbecue joints: Fresh Air Barbecue (near Jackson); Harold’s Barbecue (Atlanta – closed in the summer of 2012); Melear’s BBQ (Fayetteville – closed in early 2011); Sprayberry’s (Newnan) and Vandy’s Bar-B-Q (Stateboro) We had […]
Vandy’s Bar-B-Q – Statesboro, GA
Ever since I was a kid, even before I knew that I loved barbecue, I knew about Vandy’s Bar-B-Q. The famed Atlanta writer Lewis Grizzard perpetually claimed they had the best Brunswick stew in the world, and some of the finest barbecue in the state. This was before there was an internet for all of […]
This Little Piggy Bar B Q – Macon, GA
After stopping at Furniture Liquidators in Forsyth (a great place to find furniture – they buy out hotels that are being renovated and resell those pieces at reasonable prices), we saw the sign for This Little Piggy Bar B Q. They were about to open as we drove by, so after a fruitless visit to […]
Johnny’s – Powder Springs, GA
Johnny’s Steaks and Barbecue has been in Powder Springs longer than we have (twenty eight years, for us), and we haven’t eaten there, ever, that I recall. They went through a period when they weren’t open and then they were open only on weekends. But they now seem to be open most every day, in […]
Huey Luey’s – Hiram, GA
About once a month, or more frequently, we end up at Huey Luey’s Fine Mexican Food, in Hiram. This has been an going affair for the last three or four years. I, honestly, couldn’t believe that I hadn’t written a post about this place. There is so much that is not like a standard strip-mall […]
Penang Malaysian Cuisine – Chamblee, GA
Going back to one of my earliest lists (101 Favorite Restaurants, Atlanta Magazine, August, 2006) led us to today’s dining destination, Penang Malaysian Cuisine. Heading north on Buford Highway from downtown, I originally thought we were going to be able to knock off two spots in one stop, as they both were listed as being […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 