Today, as the second ice/snow event of the year closed in upon us, I was meeting someone for lunch at Rico’s World Kitchen, in Buford. When I got there, I got a primo parking spot, and then looked around and realized that was because there weren’t but two other cars there. As I got out […]
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Earlier this week, we received an invite to join Grant and Marie (of Marie, Let’s Eat) and their friends Helen and Vincent (who were delightful) at Gu’s Bistro. As we had not been to Gu’s, and I’d seen a lot of talk about it – including a reference on Atlanta Magazine’s […]
Tonight, looking for something different in West Cobb, we decided to go to Romano’s Macaroni Grill, for the first time in four or more years. We arrived at 5:30, just ahead of the dinner rush and, apparently, just ahead of much of the wait staff. We were shown to a table and we waited for […]
“Today is the day that I will finally eat at Rumi’s Kitchen”, I decided as I left the office, two hours before a meeting in Kennesaw, intending to eat on the top end. I pulled up the address for Rumi’s on the list in my phone (“How old is this list? Why would that matter?”), […]
After a couple of days snowbound by the 2014 Snowpocalypse, I had an afternoon meeting in the Georgia Pacific building in Five Points. Arriving about an hour before it was scheduled to start, I wandered the nearby blocks (avoiding icy spots and residual snow piles) looking for a lunch spot. It was then that I […]
When I finished a meeting shortly after 11:00 am downtown, I thought this would be a great opportunity to grab lunch in an area I don’t usually frequent at midday. While discussing lunch spots with the folks I was meeting with, they mentioned Chantrelle’s, over in the West End. I had never been there, nor […]
In town for a meeting, when we were looking at dinner choices, I was reminded that Kent Rathbun (brother of Atlanta restauranteur Kevin Rathbun – of Rathbun’s, Rathbun Steak, KR Steakbar and Krog Bar) was Dallas-based. In fact, we had just seen the two of them on a Chopped re-run on Sunday afternoon. I Googled […]
After the smokehouse at Scott’s Bar-b-que in Hemingway, SC, burned down last November, members of the Fatback Collective brought some of its members together to put on the “Rodney Scott in Exile Tour”, bringing Rodney Scott and his whole hog barbecue to towns around the South. The Atlanta stop was on Monday, at Gunshow, where […]
We’ve eaten at Thumbs Up Diner several times over the last half-dozen years, at several of their locations. We celebrated a homecoming from three months studying abroad with one of our daughters at the one on Edgewood. I’ve had business breakfasts at the same spot. And one of the most memorable was at the Marietta […]
We’ve been to Star Provisions on many occasions – to pick up cheese or bread or something else – even a perfect anniversary gift one year. But we had never been there to eat – until today. Heading to a 2:00 GT basketball game, I wanted something different than one of our usual stops, so […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 