Dishes I Think About Every Day
After 10 years of being in the service industry, I’ve become a snob. I admit it. I began from the bottom-barrel chain restaurants to somehow working with James Beard nominees (humble brag). At the end of the da...
Kitchen Classics for Christmas
Strippaggio!
It’s time to break bread with the fine folks down at Strippaggio! (Strippaggio is a term used for the actual slurping of olive oil as it’s being taste-tested by a potential buyer.) Inside this ...
Of Whining Queens, Mexican Flavors, and Halibut Nipples
Last Friday, my regular dining pals and I headed to Nuevo Laredo Cantina (1495 Chattahoochee Avenue). It’s been several years since I dined there and I’ve always liked it. It’s not for purists in search of so-c...
40 Must-Try Dishes in Atlanta
Here are 40 Georgia Voice staff picks of fare around our fair city that qualifies as “must-try” dishes.
Senior Digital Content Staffer Katie Burkholder’s Picks
White Tonkatsu Ramen
Wagaya
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The Soup Nazi Meets Shakespeare at Melody Chinese Restaurant
In which our beloved Cliff gets told how to eat ... and he LOVES it.
No Tex-Mex on the Menu? Caramba!
There’s barely an inch of intown Atlanta that hasn’t been deformed by “gentrification.” Gentrifiers hate the word because it alludes to a prosperous class that drives traditionally poorer residents from their n...
Summer Bodies Are Made in Winter (Or at Nam Phuong in Autumn.)
Autumn allegedly arrived last week and you know what that means: Soon your body will start gathering fat to protect you from the winter cold and feed you during your hibernation at Manifest and Flex. So, this w...
Murphy’s: Go For The Corn, Not The Clink
I can never write about Murphy’s Restaurant in Virginia-Highland without telling this story: Over 30 years ago, I landed at my first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. The lead-up wasn’t pretty. I was driving hom...
It’s All Going to Kale
Our attitudes toward many foods are strongly affected by memory. Your mother fed you SpaghettiOs on Sunday afternoons while she let you wear her jewelry, for example, and you still crave the stuff. Perhaps you ...
The Battle of the Upper-Crusts
Instead of dough, pizza makers were pounding each other's faces. Kidding! (Or are we?)
Midtown Moon Brings Back Steak with the Queens
Cliff Bostock takes a look at Midtown Moon's menu.