Outdoor Dining at Delbar
The Trumpenstein Pandemic continues to stall the city’s restaurants, but it’s my impression that many are trying to enlarge outdoor dining and rework interior space so that someone’s weak sneeze doesn’t catapul...
Grana: Will It Go Gay?
Discerning the state of the restaurant business in Atlanta is virtually impossible. Every day online you read reports of restaurants that have closed, reopened and two days later close again because an employee...
Birthday Cakes, Parties Always Popular for Dogs
LGBTQ individuals adore their pets, and some want to show their affection from time to time with special treats such as cakes and birthday parties. A number of Atlanta locations provide those kinds of amenities...
Talat Market: A Pop-up Favorite Gets a New Home
While many restaurants are reopening with full service, I wish I could tell you that things are returning to normal, but that’s clearly not going to happen anytime soon. We all know that besides the food itself...
Takeout Standouts: Little Bear and Talat Market
You have probably noticed that Atlanta restaurant owners have for the most part not accepted Governor Kemp’s invitation to sicken and kill their staffs and customers by prematurely reopening. Somehow, they didn...
Cooking Your Way Through the Madness
Between the 24/7 news cycle and parents suddenly finding themselves working from home and subbing as home-school teachers, the weeks since COVID-19 made itself known in the US have been a time of transition for...
Epidemic Eating: Spend, Tip, Donate, Volunteer, and Don’t Panic
America is not a country known around the world for having a big heart. Thus, a public health crisis of the magnitude we’re seeing right now stands to devastate the lives of people who, in any other prosperous ...
The Lazy Llama: Tacos, Tequila and TV
If you pursue education in journalism and psychology, as I did, you are cursed with a double dose of curiosity. You annoy a lot of people by asking a lot of questions. For example, during two visits to the new ...
Pit Boss: Lots of Sweet Memories and Sugary Sauce
A few days after I finished undergrad, I began five years of working for three newspapers in rural Georgia. I first moved to Elberton, where I was educated in virulent racism, church revivals, drunken murder, a...
Falafel in Buckhead, Shaking Beef on Buford
This week, I’m sharing first looks at Mamoun’s Falafel and Chom Chom Vietnamese Kitchen. Both are cheap and somewhat exotic – great for a date with someone you likely will never see again.
Mamoun’s...
Falafel Waffles, Bulgogi Burgers, and Corned-beef Mountains
The holidays have, at last, released us from their suffocating grip. Every year, they pin us down and shove food down our throats for a month. Then we spend the first three weeks of January rolling around in sa...