While we enjoyed all the new places that we visited on our trip to south Georgia and Jacksonville, we were also very happy to revisit two restaurants that we really love. We took some more pictures of these joints to share with you. Continue reading »
It’s always nice to actually find a good middle Georgia restaurant that is open on Sundays for weary road trippers like us to visit. With locations in Macon and in Alpharetta, Papouli’s has a deservedly good reputation for excellent Mediterranean food. Continue reading »
I learned that the folks there have their own secret recipe for sauce; I learned that the servers there are complete suckers for a cheerful baby. None of those things are terribly surprising. Rather more to the point, however, I learned that they have the most completely amazing potato salad ever. Continue reading »
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a restaurant that divides opinion quite the way that Fincher’s does. It would be churlish to deny that it has its very vocal detractors, and even among loyalty-splitting food like barbecue, people either love it to their core or hate it like something on fire. Surprisingly, chief … Continue reading »
I’ve been looking forward to sharing a few words with you good readers about Fresh Air for quite some time. If you’re interested in Georgia barbecue, then this is one of the state’s best-known and most beloved old shacks. It’s a very old one, in fact, having opened in 1929 in a small store between … Continue reading »
It is completely fantastic. It might well have eclipsed every one of the hundred-plus barbecue joints that I have tried and become, flatly, my all-time favorite tasting plate of chopped pork. We ate there two and a half weeks ago, and now, going forward, I cannot imagine a trip through middle Georgia without a mammoth detour through Gray to visit this place instead of anywhere else. Continue reading »
We are achingly close to a full set of the Georgia restaurants reviewed at Roadfood.com. One on their list had long confused me a little about when best to stop by for a visit. It’s Lane Southern Orchards, a gigantic agribusiness about fifteen miles south of Macon near the town of Fort Valley. I wasn’t … Continue reading »
Among long-term Maconites, it’s an open secret that whatever your opinion of Georgia’s two best-known hot dog empires, the big one up in Atlanta borrowed a thing or two from the original down here in middle Georgia. Nu-Way is one of the oldest existing restaurants in the state, having opened its first store on Cotton … Continue reading »
This is Marie, contributing a little story about a barbecue place that Grant hasn’t visited. The review is for the Macon branch of the Pig In A Pit Bar-B-Que restaurant. Their branch in Milledgeville is the original one, and maybe we’ll make our way there eventually. Grant and I recall different versions of how this … Continue reading »
What I don’t know about Macon would fill a book. I read this week that the state’s considering cutting funding to the Music and Sports Halls of Fame, which would be very sad. Macon, located in central Georgia, has really been hit by the recession. It’s never struck me as a particularly carefree or thriving … Continue reading »
