Sitting at home, watching NCAA conference championship weekend, the subject of lunch came up. I mentioned the excellent chicken tacos my love had enjoyed at El Felix last weekend and that we could get the same things at Superica in about half an hour. (Superica is Ford Fry’s newest Tex-Mex restaurant, in Krog Street Market, […]
Several years back, we were visiting NYC for the weekend and I was in burger heaven. As we were getting ready to leave on Sunday morning, I realized that we had time to make a quick run to Shake Shack, just off Times Square. I enjoyed it at the time, although it paled next to […]
With all of the buzz that Superica has gotten in the last week with its opening, I thought we needed to try Ford Fry’s earlier Mex-Tex offering in Atlanta, the El Felix. Located in the yuppy haven of Avalon in Alpharetta (think an outdoor shopping mall out of the Truman show, populated with upscale rednecks), […]
When we made our visit to Fred’s Meat and Bread at the end of last year, I first noticed the Luminary as one of the cornerstones of Krog Street Market. I had remembered reading about Atlanta Eli Kirshstein’s new French brasserie opening in late summer and made a note to give it a try. Tonight, […]
In our visit a couple of weeks back to Nam Phuong, Mini Hot Pots is one of the places that I viewed the pictures of on Yelp and decided against for that day. For what it’s worth, it had been on my list since 2006, and we almost ate there the day we went to […]
Cooks & Soldiers first appeared on my radar one night when they appeared on OpenTable, with a reservation available in West Midtown. I had never heard of them and had no idea where they were. And I honestly don’t believe that they were actually open the first time that I saw them there. On the […]
Lunch at Shabu Pong Dang actually began as a visit to a local meat and three (the Rexall Grill in Duluth) that ended abruptly when I walked in the door and found that the fried chicken was not on the menu board. This led to the crisis question of “now what am I going to […]
Today, after another heartbreaking GT basketball loss, I needed comforting. I chose to seek solace in a burger and, as I had been wanting to go to Little’s Food Store for a while – this was the perfect confluence of “need” and opportunity. This little grocery and grill in Cabbagetown has received recent press when […]
When we went to dinner on New Years Eve at Union Hill, I had noticed Maison Robert Fine Chocolates, just down the street. That night, I had remembered that a friend had told me how good their macaroons were, particularly the coconut ones. So after an afternoon shopping on Chamblee’s “Antique Row”, we stopped in […]
This Saturday, when we planned to lunch with our youngest and her soon to be in-laws, they deferred to me for a lunch spot. I figured that Buford Highway was kind of in the middle and surveyed a couple of places on my lists, making some preliminary choices. As we were making our plans, my […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 