As we made our way home from Indiana Dunes State Park, I was consulting my list, looking for options. Headed south, I realized we were going to be driving right by West Lafayette, Indiana. And there was an entry there from Hamburger America – Triple XXX Family Restaurant. That made our lunch choice easy. Located […]
As long as I’ve been writing this blog (actually, as long as I’ve been enamored with barbecue – so thirty+ years), I’ve heard about the uniqueness of mutton barbecue in Western Kentucky. As we were making our journey back home from Wisconsin, I knew we’d have to a make a stop, and set the GPS […]
One of the issues we confronted on this VDC (vacation during Covid-19) was finding places that were open. We had already changed our destination state for this trip, due to the cancellation of a festival, and on this Thursday as we journeyed from southern Wisconsin to northern Indiana, we were driving through Chicago. Pulling a […]
As we planned our Wisconsin trip, I had a couple of burger joints lined up in neighboring Iowa. On this Tuesday, we had made the drive from Sping Green, over to the Field of Dreams, in Northeast Iowa. We had driven through Dubuque on the way and I made a plan for carry out from […]
Wedl’s Hamburger Stand and Ice Cream Parlor has been open continuously since 1915. The larger building is the Ice Cream Parlor. All of the burgers (up to 600 a day) come out of the Hamburger Stand on the street corner. A lot of the challenges with this road trip were COVID-19 related. It could be […]
Several weeks ago in the AJC dining column, I saw a review of Pho Ga Tony Tony, a restaurant that opened here in 2019. It is styled similarly to Philadelphia’s famed Pho Ga Thanh Thanh. That shouldn’t be a surprise, as Pho Ga Tony Tony’s co-owner and executive chef Tony Le’s parents run the Philly […]
In early July, I saw a review of Great Sichuan in the AJC, a relatively new Szechuan restaurant in John’s Creek. They serve both Chinese-American and Szechuan dishes. I ordered the Shan City Spicy chicken, which is my litmus test for a Szechuan place and it was spot on. Spicy enough to enjoy it, but […]
As the pandemic changed most people’s plans, it also changed ours. Early in the year, one of our camping friends called and said, “if we want to make reservations to camp in Maine around the 4th of July, the six month window opens today!” So the planning began – reservations in Acadia National Park, then […]
As I didn’t get around to posting this timely and I can’t remember all the details of the meal, I’m now posting this restaurant as a photo blog. I do remember the sauce being exceptional enough that we bought a jar of their Alabama White to take home.
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 