At some point in the last few months, a new restaurant has opened in downtown Douglasville.  We first noticed it when we went to look at the 1950s McDonald’s “set” they had built for the Ray Kroc biopic that was filming here last month.  We were excited to see they had opened – one of […]

Masterpiece popped onto my radar with a small blurb in Atlanta magazine (you can read it yourself – it’s the last one on the wall on the left in the picture below) last month.  It was a small article about food happenings around town and told briefly of Chef Liu’s path, starting in Atlanta at […]

On an early summer afternoon, we were working our way across north Georgia with some friends, stopping and shopping and heading towards lunch.  Amos’ BBQ & Biscuits, in Ballground, was our planned lunch stop.  My original directions for Amos’ was not a street number and zip code, but rather a crossroads of two state highway […]

So, here it was on my birthday and I had a business meeting at the office with a client in from out of town.  I had wanted to swing by Revolution Doughnuts, (it was my birthday) to show off some of the uniqueness of our city, but I had also wanted to try Sublime Doughnuts […]

On this Saturday evening, we were out roaming around, ultimately heading toward Suwanee.  As we were on the northwest side of Atlanta as late afternoon approached, I remembered that I had a restaurant on my list (AJC’s Spring Dining Guide, from 2012) in Lilburn that I had never made it, too.  Lilburn is definitely not […]

Owned by the same folks that have Moonie’s Texas Barbecue down the street, Waterloo Burgers opened in late January of this year.  Someone with whom I travel quarterly was telling me about this place in May when we were visiting a common client and I had been wanting to give it a try, so two […]

Earlier this week, a lunch for two deal appeared on Travelzoo for Smokebelly BBQ, in Buckhead.  I don’t know that I had heard much about the place, but the deal seemed to be a value (two plates, an appetizer and two non-alcoholic drinks for $29).  Always interested in a deal, particularly when it involves barbecue, […]

On this Saturday of wandering around town, we found ourselves on the northern perimeter as my stomach began to rumble.  I had just seen an article on Eater Atlanta about the best tacos in town and remembered that we were near El Ray Del Taco and the destination was set.   Their al pastor tacos […]

Another place from the original “list” (from August of 2006) gets a check mark in the box next to it, with a visit to Stone Soup Kitchen.  Located off Boulevard, near 20, it’s not a “drive-by” opportunity on most occasions.  Coupling that with my fear that, like every other breakfast place near there (Ria’s Bluebird […]

This post is brought to you courtesy of a comment I recently received on the review of Southern Soul Barbecue.  Nichole said that if I liked Southern Soul (which I do), I should really give Gary Lee’s Market a try.  Interestingly, on my last trip to Jesup, driving up from Jacksonville, I got off at […]