Tag: Buford Highway

The Westside has a new health-focused, fast-casual restaurant, Buford Highway gets a Bangladeshi newcomer, and you have to try Midtown's new micro food hall, The Canteen

Don’t get me wrong, filmed-in-ATL Baby Driver deserves its glowing reviews and big box office. But why didn't Edgar Wright pay just a little more attention to the details about Atlanta?

The new Chinese restaurant delivers excellent Sichuan cuisine ITP—supple wontons in chili oil, a signature chicken dish that resembles chicharrones, and a crispy blue crab worth digging your chopsticks into.

If I tell my server that I had a negative experience, I want him or her to apologize or—if there’s still time—offer a replacement. An appropriate response would be, “I am so sorry. Let me get a manager.” Instead, I'm left boiling mad in my seat and then handed a full check for a half-eaten plate of food.

Don’t let the drab strip malls fool you; Atlanta’s most soulful dining experiences can be found along this corridor.

New to Buford Highway, the hand-pulled and knife-cut noodles at Lan Zhou Ramen are not to be missed. (Not to mention they have excellent xiao long bao, too.)

The restaurant looks more like an upscale food hall with neon lights and yellow-coated industrial metal stools, and it serves Malaysian food, which is inherently a mix of Chinese, Indian, Singaporean, and Thai flavors. There is no better cuisine to illustrate what Buford Highway has become: a collage of cultures, where different is treasured and even sought out.

It seems every week, some prolific local Instagrammer has unearthed yet another jaw-dropping food creation that defies expectation (and sometimes even seems to defy gravity). Here are six you shouldn't miss.

In a hurry for lunch and sick of pizza, burgers, or burritos? We compared four fast-casual falafel spots to see who offered the better quick lunch.

Fans of dim sum and Cantonese barbecue, get excited. Best BBQ recently opened a stall inside Asian Supermarket's food court on Buford Highway.