Category - Dining

The Boys Make Pie

The Boys Make Pie

We got up early this morning to make a rhubarb pie from scratch. Mom called last week to say she had a hankering for rhubarb pie. After weeks of scouring the shelves of grocers in my Alabama hometown, she hadn't been able to find a single can of...

America’s Best 25 Pizzas – GQ

America’s Best 25 Pizzas – GQ

via men.style.com "Alan Richman traveled more than 20,000 miles across the U.S.A -- the country at makes the best pizza -- to search for the 25 best pizzas you'll ever eat." I agree with Richman that the "Italians are wrong"...

McGangBang

McGangBang

The McGangBang is "a sandwich made from a double cheeseburger and a McChicken sandwich — where you put an entire McChicken sandwich inside a double cheeseburger." I would prefer mine "unprotected" (that is, with a...

The Porter Beer Bar

The Porter Beer Bar

From the Blissful Glutton:[Atlanta's] Porter Beer Bar will be offering its food menu at half price during the entire month of March.Well ... not exactly. As even dear old BG admits, those special prices are available just three and a half hours a...

When Throwbacks are Progress

When Throwbacks are Progress

Great news for those of us avoiding high fructose corn syrup (also known as "The Devil's Saliva"):In the middle of April, PBV [Pepsi Bottling Ventures] also will begin distributing Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, which features those...

30 Atlanta Foodie Favorites

30 Atlanta Foodie Favorites

Friend JPH sent me the Blissful Glutton's list of thirty favorite foodie experiences here in the ATL.Perhaps because my personal grazing is so Midtown-centric, I've not sampled, savored, or stumbled across one of them -- not even one...

Firsts: Fugazetta

Photo Credit: Flickr User Wally Gobetz Having been “steaked out,” I’m in one of hundreds of BA’s pizza restaurants, prowling the menu for something with less protein and maximum carbs. That’s when a word —...

Firsts: Yerba Mate

Photo Credit: Marshallenrie at Wikipedia. Everywhere we go in Buenos Aires and Colonia (Uruguay), we see people “drinking the mate” (pronounced “ma-teh.”). To join the fun, you need three things: a gourd-shaped pot, an odd...

Red Snapper

Red Snapper

Clyde surprised me with dinner at the Red Snapper on Cheshire Bridge Road last night -- our first actual visit to the storefront seafood restaurant we've driven past for years. The run-down exterior had me expecting wobbly, vinyl-covered tables and...

I’m Up for Chocolate Slap Yo’ Mama

I’m Up for Chocolate Slap Yo’ Mama

If Jake's Midtown location had remained open, I would probably have had a lot more weight to lose when I started my Wii Fit routine. Now, a new location threatens my resolve! From Omnivore Atlanta: At long last, Jake’s Ice Cream has launched its new...