Camping with our kids over at Providence Canyon, we were discussing lunch options and thought we’d head over to Opelika, to Bow & Arrow for lunch.  One of us loves the barbecue and the other loves Memaw’s Eclairs.  But when we got to Bow & Arrow, they were closed.  I had checked the hours […]

So, one day you’re just rolling along with your food blog, then there’s a pandemic and all of the restaurants close and you don’t have anything to write about…. So you keep an eye on the restaurant openings and closing, mostly closings, to see what’s going on the community. One day, I saw a write […]

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.

Somewhere over the last several months, someone told me that I ought to add the Peach and the Porkchop to my list.  We were heading back toward Atlanta from Dawsonville and lunch time was approaching.  I consulted the list and remembered this place.  We arrived about 1:30 and it was still fairly full of folks finishing lunch. […]

Heading toward north Florida for a conference, we crossed through Savannah a little late for the places I wanted to stop for lunch.   But I had this place in Shellman Bluff on my list, that had been there for years.   And when I pulled it up on the interwebs, they were closing before we could […]

  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.

  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. The crazy things about this meal is that it was basically a dinner, with nine of my co-workers, in a neighborhood in Portmor, in someone’s backyard […]

Today’s adventure involved a road trip to Auburn, Alabama, for barbecue with a group of friends.  We have these folks that we camp with – three couples in metro Atlanta, one in south Alabama and one in South Carolina.  Eight of us (it was a little far for the South Carolinians, so they weren’t part […]

Just named Eater.com’s 2019 Atlanta Restaurant Design of the Year, Cold Beer opened mid-summer on the new Eastside trail of the Beltline.  “On the Beltline” is the key descriptor if you choose to go.  They have an address on Dekalb Avenue, but, on Google maps appear to be on Edgewood.  Until you get to Edgewood […]