Category Downtown
The Varsity – Atlanta, GA
I can’t believe that I’ve never said a word about the Varsity. Perhaps because I’ve eaten there for at least forty-five years, I assumed that, at some point in this adventure, I had. It’s been part of the backdrop of my life: We ate there before Braves’ games while Hank Aaron was chasing Babe Ruth’s […]
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 […]
Landmark Diner – Atlanta, GA
After a couple of days snowbound by the 2014 Snowpocalypse, I had an afternoon meeting in the Georgia Pacific building in Five Points. Arriving about an hour before it was scheduled to start, I wandered the nearby blocks (avoiding icy spots and residual snow piles) looking for a lunch spot. It was then that I […]
Mustard Seed BBQ – Atlanta, GA
When I finished a meeting shortly after 11:00 am downtown, I thought this would be a great opportunity to grab lunch in an area I don’t usually frequent at midday. While discussing lunch spots with the folks I was meeting with, they mentioned Chantrelle’s, over in the West End. I had never been there, nor […]
The Rodney Scott in Exile Tour, at Gunshow – Atlanta, GA
After the smokehouse at Scott’s Bar-b-que in Hemingway, SC, burned down last November, members of the Fatback Collective brought some of its members together to put on the “Rodney Scott in Exile Tour”, bringing Rodney Scott and his whole hog barbecue to towns around the South. The Atlanta stop was on Monday, at Gunshow, where […]
The Beautiful – Atlanta, Ga
One day last week, I was asking someone where they thought had the best fried chicken in the city, after reading the article in the current Atlanta Magazine. She explained that she wasn’t familiar with many of the places that made the list, but that her husband’s favorite place was the Beautiful Restaurant. Then I […]
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 […]
The Smoke Ring – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Only open about a month, the Smoke Ring caught my attention when I saw a new billboard for it on Northside Drive, just south of Hollowell Parkway. The name didn’t ring (pun unintended) any bells – I had seen nothing about in any of the food press, that I recalled. At […]
Delia’s Chicken Sausage Stand – Atlanta, GA
Delia’s Chicken Sausage Stand is another of the places that I’d been intending to try for months and months. It seemed to take longer than normal to get this blog post written but it was a very simple explanation – I had accidentally deleted my photo of the signage. I had attempted to return on […]
Taqueria del Sol – Atlanta, GA
Taqueria del Sol is a place that always seems to have a line out front. I remember eating there a couple of times over the last few years and it was good, but I don’t think I have been since I started blogging. And I don’t “get” the line. It’s always been good, but the […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 