My
favorite meal begins with a cosmopolitan followed by salmon in curry sauce.My Favorite
These are some of my personal (and mid-priced) favorites. Click any underlined name to go to it's website.
Roxx Tavern and Grill (1824 Cheshire Bridge Rd, NE. 404-892-4591.) It's the closest thing to a neighborhood "family" restaurant here. With a casual jeans and shorts kind of atmosphere, they have a large outdoor patio as well as a small bar and dining room. The waiter du jour is Corey, a boy next door type cutie. My favorite meal begins with a side Caesar salad followed by the Black Angus chopped steak and veggies. Another favorite is their dinner Caesar salad with grilled chicken. (Be sure to request warm, freshly grilled chicken.) Their hamburgers are good too. Save room for dessert. They have the best coconut cake I've eaten in my entire life!
Roasters Rotisserie( 2770 Lenox Rd, NE. 404-237-1122). Great rotisserie chicken and barbequed ribs. Near Lenox Square mall, it has a large selection of vegetables and wonderful peach cobbler. Lots of bears and hunky men eat and work here. You'll soon notice that men and dessert are a constant theme in my dining habits.
The Colonnade (1879 Cheshire Bridge Rd. 404-874-5642). An Atlanta institution serving huge portions from a large menu of Southern favorites. I love their fried chicken, turkey and dressing, prime rib, short ribs, pole beans, and coconut pie. It's a large, rather plain space that's very busy most of the time. They have a mixed clientele that seems to have more than its share of old ladies and, yes, gay men. (Picture Mama, her son and his boyfriend.) It has a cocktail lounge you can enjoy while waiting for your table. Friday nights are so busy that the lounge feels like a gay bar!
My favorite place to have breakfast (besides Waffle House <G>) is Pastries A' Go-Go (235 West Ponce de Leon Ave. 404-373-342.) It's a bit small and noisy, but everything they make is yummy! I especially enjoy their French toast, Southern breakfast, flakey biscuits and Bob's potatoes. The Crescent Moon Cafe (174 West Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur 404-377-5623.) They have the best French toast in Atlanta! And I also like their "half heap," skillet filled with potatoes, onions, etc and topped with 2 eggs. The decor is Jetson's meets the 50's.
Sunday brunch at Einstein's (1077 Juniper St., NE 404-876-7925) large outdoor patio is always interesting. Although the man-watching is better at Einstein's, the ambience is better at Vickery's (404-881-1106). It has a charming brick wall and brick "floor" with plants and a large tree. There's a lovely dark paneled (and an ugly lime yellow) dining room inside. Previously mentioned Roxx also serves Sunday brunch.
There are lots of wonderful Thai restaurants in
Atlanta (The
Thai Chili, for instance), but I particularly enjoy the
elegant,
yet cozy ambience of
Cafe Eurasia
(129 East Ponce de Leon
Ave., Decatur.)
Each house specialty is presented with it's own
unique flair. My
favorite meal begins with a cosmopolitan followed by salmon in curry sauce.
Cow Tipper's (1600 Piedmont Ave., NE 404-874-3469) has good (not great) steaks, chicken, and hamburgers and its large patio is often filled with, once again, men. It's a plain, no frills place, but their meals can be a good value because you get a great salad and baked potato along with a dinner. Try their "armadillo eggs" for a great appetizer!
Nino's (1931 Cheshire Bridge Rd., NE 404-874-6505) and Alfredo's (1989 Cheshire Bridge Rd, NE 404-8761380) are almost next door to each other and they've both been serving wonderful traditional Italian food for more than 40 years. Don't let the drab Cheshire Bridge Rd location deter you, they are both outstanding upscale establishments. Nino's is a bit cozier and a bit quieter, but I like the food at Alfredo's better.
If you're on an expense account: Veni, Vidi, Vici or Oceanaire or Chops or Trois or The Atlanta Fish Market or Pricci or Canoe or La Grotta or Pano and Paul's or Bone's or Blue Pointe or Twelve or.....
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John Peters 404-816-5676