Looking for a lunch spot on a random Saturday, I remembered an article I read recently about the burger at Roshambo. Always down for a cheeseburger, we headed that way and arrived right at 3:00, as they were changing shifts. We were initially seated in the bar, at a high top that was aptly named […]
Arriving in Indy for a conference, they were setting up the buffet line at the hotel, and I thought, “who have I become?” So I immediately went to “the list” to see what was nearby. This led me to the Workingman’s Friend, courtesy of Hamburger America, and I was quickly heading toward the giant sliding […]
I’ll start this by saying, if I owned this place, the name would be Narobia’s Gravy & Grits. The grits were good. But the gravy was absolutely banging. This was the third attempt to try Narobia’s – the first time we went, they were closed on that day and the second time, they were closing […]
In a recent article from Eater Atlanta, I found a barbecue place of which I had not heard – Taylor’d Bar-B-Q, in Avondale Estates. Housed in the building that was previously MoBetta Wings, this former competition barbecue team (headed by Josh McDowell) opened Taylor’d in July, 2020, in the heart of the pandemic. We asked […]
An article from Eater Atlanta about new restaurants in the city, put Birdcage on the list. On Memorial Drive, just east of Boulevard, the decor screams Miami Beach, at the peak of its glory, in both color and tone. Combine that with an homage to the mid-nineties Nathan Lane / Robin Williams film of the […]
This restaurant is cash only. It’s not often, at sixty, that we walk into a restaurant and bring down the average age, but I think we succeeded at Murry’s. Everyone in the place seemed to knows everybody else and I think we were the only people that a waitress didn’t hug and greet by name… […]
A barbecue place that opens at 7:00 am, and doesn’t sell “breakfast foods”? I’m in. Open for 114 years (Yep – you read that right – one hundred and fourteen years!) and run by the fourth generation of the Jones family, this may be the oldest BBQ spot in the country. Located in a neighborhood, […]
As we continued the journey, barbecue stop number two was Central B-B-Q, in Memphis. I didn’t realize until I went out to take a picture of the sign that we were one block from the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum. We visited this a decade or so ago, and it is powerful […]
Stop number one on the Eclipse barbecue scramble was A&R Bar-B-Q on Elvis Presley Blvd. Located on the end of a strip mall in an unassuming storefront, you’re confronted with the counter as soon as you walk in. The first thing I noticed was the happy hour frozen drink specials. This is a ‘cue place […]
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