Category Georgia
Yellow Jackets Hot Dogs – Ellenwood, GA
In the continuing search for the elusive “genuine” yellow jacket hot dog, I’m generally willing to drive all over the place. Today’s adventure, as we started towards Savannah, took us through Ellenwood in Henry County. And it took us to another place that came from the google search that stemmed from the discussion that led […]
Villains Wicked Heroes – Atlanta, GA
Leaving downtown and looking for someplace to eat, I consulted “the list” and remembered that I was very close to Villains Wicked Heroes. The less than year-old entry to the Atlanta food scene from the folks behind Grindhouse Killer Burgers (along with others formally at Flip and HD1), Villains is a take on the neighborhood […]
Olympic Flame – Atlanta, GA
I’m going to guess that fifty or more times, in the past six years, I’ve driven by the Olympic Flame. And on nearly every one of those occasions, it has been closed. But I had been intrigued by the sign – “You need to eat. We need the money.” Then a month or so ago, […]
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 […]
Aqua Terra Bistro – Buford, GA
Today, as the second ice/snow event of the year closed in upon us, I was meeting someone for lunch at Rico’s World Kitchen, in Buford. When I got there, I got a primo parking spot, and then looked around and realized that was because there weren’t but two other cars there. As I got out […]
Gu’s Bistro – Doraville, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Earlier this week, we received an invite to join Grant and Marie (of Marie, Let’s Eat) and their friends Helen and Vincent (who were delightful) at Gu’s Bistro. As we had not been to Gu’s, and I’d seen a lot of talk about it – including a reference on Atlanta Magazine’s […]
Romano’s Macaroni Grill – Marietta, GA
Tonight, looking for something different in West Cobb, we decided to go to Romano’s Macaroni Grill, for the first time in four or more years. We arrived at 5:30, just ahead of the dinner rush and, apparently, just ahead of much of the wait staff. We were shown to a table and we waited for […]
The Cafe at Double Zero – Sandy Springs, GA
“Today is the day that I will finally eat at Rumi’s Kitchen”, I decided as I left the office, two hours before a meeting in Kennesaw, intending to eat on the top end. I pulled up the address for Rumi’s on the list in my phone (“How old is this list? Why would that matter?”), […]
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 […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 