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Sweatman’s Barbecue – Eutawville, SC

On the way back home from Charleston to Atlanta, I knew that I’d have one chance for roadside barbecue.  Four or five years ago, a friend of mine from Charlotte sent me a list of great barbecue places in the Carolinas.  Only four of those were in South Carolina and Sweatman’s Barbecue (in his words […]

Fish – Charleston, SC

With the package that we booked at the Francis Marion Hotel, they gave us gift certificates that could be used at a number of restaurants around the hotel.  For our last night in the city, we decided to use several of those and chose Fish.  It is a locally sourced, eclectic French-Thai fusion restaurant.  When […]

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 […]

Hominy Grill-Charleston South Carolina

One of the other places on my South Carolina list, was the Hominy Grill.  The recommendation there, from the Garden & Gun 50 Best Southern Foods, was for the high-rise biscuits: “High-Rise Biscuit, 
Hominy Grill – Charleston is a town full of biscuit pushers, but nobody has quite the mastery over this Southern staple as […]

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 […]

Rockaway Athletic Club – Columbia, SC

I had learned about Rockaway Athletic Club from Hamburger America, and reviewed George’s article before we left home.   One of things that I remembered was the difficulty he had in finding the place.   I followed the map to the address from the Burger GPS app, but all we saw where the GPS directed […]

The One Eared Stag, Decatur, GA

1) Did you ever go someplace and when you got there felt like you’ve been there before?  As soon as we walked into the One Eared Stag everything looked familiar (except for the eponymous animal head above the bar).  I started to wonder, have we eaten here and I just don’t remember it?  Couldn’t be.  […]

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 […]

Community Q – Decatur, GA

Community Q BBQ is the orphan child of Dave Poe’s and Sam’s Barbecue #1.  Back in the day, Sam (of Sam’s Barbecue #1) and Dave (of Dave Poe’s) owned Sam & Dave’s, where David (#2), of Community ‘Cue, also spent time at the barbecue pit. When Sam and Dave split up their two restaurants, David […]

The Ravenous Pig – Winter Park, FL

Heading down to Orlando for a three day convention, one of the first things that I did was Google for the best buger, as there were no central Florida entries in Hamburger America.   One of the places that was on multiple lists was the Ravenous Pig, up in Winter Park.  One of the blog reviews […]