There was one little period last month where, across three days, we published three stories about Mexican-style food. We wrote about the opening of the Kennesaw Tin Lizzy’s, and then Marie wrote about her trip to a new burrito joint in Athens, and then I shared my trip to the mostly traditional Mama’s in Atlanta. The result, of course, that about the time I clicked “publish” on that third story, I was craving chips and salsa, and didn’t care where I got it. This happens about four times a year. Fortunately, I had some comp time at work and was leaving early to go visit that new Whole Foods in Avalon, and an old favorite was just a couple of miles away. Continue reading “Tara Humata, Alpharetta GA”
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Riverside Cafe, St. Marys GA
This is Marie, contributing an article about Riverside in St. Marys. I’d taken a rare opportunity to kidnap my boy for a weekend at my folks’ while Grant and the teenager did their own thing. It worked so well we plan to do it in reverse this spring. Continue reading “Riverside Cafe, St. Marys GA”
Photo Post 19: Repurposed Shrimp Boats in Decatur GA
I’ve been telling myself for a really long time to get over to this former Shrimp Boats at 2139 Lawrenceville Highway in Decatur and take some pictures of it. The one that accompanied our first story (linked above) was contributed by a reader. Last month, I stopped by to see it in person. Continue reading “Photo Post 19: Repurposed Shrimp Boats in Decatur GA”
Viceroy Royal Indian Dining, Dunwoody GA
So Marie was out of town with our son, and, as regular readers might recall, she doesn’t particularly care for Indian food. I dropped our friends Helen and Vincent a line. “We can eat all the Indian food we want!” I had a couple of places in mind that I wanted to try, but Helen said that I’d been avoiding one of her favorite Atlanta-area Indian restaurants, Viceroy in Dunwoody, long enough. They are best known for their weekend lunch buffets, but we came in the evening and ordered enough food between the three of us – thanks to a pair of sampler platters – that we effectively made a buffet of our own. Continue reading “Viceroy Royal Indian Dining, Dunwoody GA”
Aurelio’s Pizza, Marietta GA
I made a factual error in the summer when I wrote about Nancy’s Pizza, a large Illinois-based chain with two stores in Atlanta. I wrote then that these were “the only places for more than a hundred miles where anybody can get a stuffed Chicago pie,” and that’s not true. Another mid-sized Illinois chain, Aurelio’s, has a single outpost in Cobb County. Continue reading “Aurelio’s Pizza, Marietta GA”
Whole Foods Market, Alpharetta GA
I was invited to visit the new Avalon development in Alpharetta, which opens to the public tomorrow and which is the absolute best mixed-use development in the metro area to be named after a Roxy Music album (yes, even better than “Stranded in Forest Park”), to check out the new Whole Foods Market on a little media tour. Touring grocery stores isn’t something that we normally do here, but Whole Foods is just so fun and over the top that we enjoy visiting from time to time. We also like that you can get lots of local and regional treats here, from produce from area farms to craft beers from Georgia breweries to the terrific Nello’s Sauce from Raleigh. Continue reading “Whole Foods Market, Alpharetta GA”
Roxx Tavern, Atlanta GA (take two)
From time to time, we have commented how it’s not entirely fair to form a first impression of a restaurant, or “judge” it in any public fashion, based on the experience that you get during a festival, when the staff can be completely overwhelmed. Call it grading on a curve, I suppose. With that in mind, Roxx Tavern had been on my mind for a revisit for quite a few weeks (here’s the original story). I made it over to their store on Cheshire Bridge – they’ve since opened a second location in Tucker – one Friday afternoon recently. It should have been the after-lunch lull, about 2:15, but they were still pretty busy, hosting several large parties and their patio was more than half-filled. Then I remembered: this was Pride Weekend, and Roxx has been a Pride destination, for locals and for tourists, for many years. Continue reading “Roxx Tavern, Atlanta GA (take two)”
Marie, Let's Eat! 