Review: One Flew South lands gracefully on the BeltLine
Todd Richards, Cedric McCroery, Allen Suh are back with this new location of the beloved Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport restaurant, serving creative Southern-meets-Asian dishes.
Outdoor dinner tips from the author of Picture Perfect Parties
Southerners love to entertain outdoors. Chef-owner Billy Allin of Cakes & Ale and his wife, Kristin, have the perfect garden for a soiree, set on two acres in Decatur. For an intimate party, Allin crafted a menu of fresh-picked ingredients. Annett Joseph, stylist and author of Picture Perfect Parties, created a sophisticated but relaxed table, where family and friends clinked glasses and dined in the fading sun.
Long Snake wine bar, from 8Arm’s former beverage director, searches for its permanent home
Joshua Fryer is passionate about food and wine. Although most Atlantans know him as a front-of-house guy—he served as general manager and beverage director at 8Arm—Fryer graduated from culinary school and worked in kitchens prior to finding a home behind the bar. By founding Long Snake wine bar, Fryer is revisiting his original passion, serving a tight menu (primarily small plates) and Lo-Fi wines, with vinyl playing in the background.
November 2010: Pets
> Your amazing pet stories
> A holistic vet who makes house calls
> A semi-crazy cat lady
> The tough choices faced by a pet rescuer
> Atlanta's bully breed problem
> A holistic vet who makes house calls
> A semi-crazy cat lady
> The tough choices faced by a pet rescuer
> Atlanta's bully breed problem
8. Tailgate at the Starlight Six Drive-In
If you’ve lived here any length of time and not visited the Starlight—not poured your potent potables into a plastic cup (no bottles allowed) and settled in for a $7(!) double feature of first-run films, not realized that watching a horror movie is ten times better out in this cracked concrete back lot in Southeast Atlanta, where you’re free to squeeze Easy Cheese onto crackers and jump as the screams of fellow patrons bounce off of the billboard-sized screens and the full moon casts an eerie glow over the smoking embers of the grill where pre-movie hot dogs were roasted—and then you do, you will ask, “Where have you been all my life, Starlight?” And the Starlight will reply, “Right here, for the past sixty-one years. Thanks for catching on!” starlightdrivein.com
Three things about Atlanta bars we wish would go away
Visiting a few dozen bars over the course of a month gives a person some perspective. Here are some trends we spotted far too often, and that we fervently wish would go away forever.
Want a 30A escape for grown-ups? It’s all in the timing.
Families flock to the Panhandle’s scenic highway during school breaks. But adults can chill here in the spring, too—it’s all in the timing.
Local News Watch: CBS Atlanta issues an apology
We often complain about the way local news stations fixate on the sensational and tawdry. So it was remarkable to see this heartfelt and sincere apology that CBS Atlanta Director of News and Digital Content Steve Schwaid posted on the station's website.