Since we discovered Muss & Turner’s about two years ago, we’ve eaten there at least once a month, often twice.  It’s a convenient  choice, either if we’re in the Vinings area, or, since it is only about a twenty-five minute drive from the house, most any other time.  We have a couple of favorites that […]

Ever since the first time that we visited Cheeseburger Bobby’s, I’d written it off as a local version of a Fuddrucker’s.  But as we discussed driving to Five Guys for dinner, we remembered that a) Cheeseburger Bobby’s is closer and b) I like their french fries better, so it became our dinner destination.  One of […]

On a pleasantly cool morning, after a hike at Kennesaw Mountain accompanied by a couple of cool podcasts from KPLU studios (Jake Shimabukuro, followed by John Pizzarelli), I had worked up a bit of an appetite.  It has become something of a ritual to follow a Saturday morning hike at Kennesaw Mountain with lunch at […]

From 1989 to 1992, my office was in Tucker, about three miles from Matthews Cafeteria and we’d eat there once or twice a month.  In 1992, our office moved to Norcross and the journey became longer and the visit less frequent.  We’d head down there once every couple of months, generally on a Thursday for […]

For the last several years, one of my favorite lunch spots near the office was Boudreaux’s Seafood on Buford Highway.  It was a seafood market, that also served a great lunch.   The guy that owns it is Cajun-born-and-bred (actually a Loyola-schooled tax lawyer) who years ago went looking for a good po-boy in Atlanta and […]

Looking back, I can’t believe that I haven’t said anything about Yeah! Burger.  We eat there about once every three weeks.  It’s really quote simple: I ask Jo where she wants to eat, and, regardless of where we are or when it is, she says, “Yeah! Burger”.  The concept is near perfect: they use natural […]

THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. We had always eaten at the Everybody’s Pizza in Virginia-Highlands, but when Madison chose Everybody’s for her birthday dinner, we found that the location on Highlands had closed.  So we packed the family up and headed for Emory Village.  This was the first birthday this year when everyone lived in the […]

Acworth is an area to which we don’t frequently venture for dinner.  When some friends of ours invited us to meet them at Henry’s Louisiana Grill one Monday night, we took the chance.  I’m a cajun food fan, so I’m always up for trying a new place.  We’d heard several folks talking about the food […]

(This is actually a compendium of several visits) One of our favorite dinner / lunch spots is Muss & Turner’s in Vinings.  When we saw that they were opening a new restaurant with chef Chris Hall, Local Three Kitchen & Bar, we got excited.  They took over the old Jo-el space off Paces Ferry. Our […]

Probably the oddest things about eating at Beaver Creek Biscuit Company (featuring Turner’s Barbecue) are that I’ve lived within fifteen minutes of it for most of my life and 1) have never been there; and 2) hadn’t even heard of it until about three months ago.  As I’ve said before, when I was a kid […]