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Restaurant List Updated, Finally
Jul 12th
Yes, I know it’s been a long time coming (almost a year!), but I’ve finally gotten around to updating the George and Linda’s A to Z Eatathon Extravaganza list.
As of this update, we’re up to 104 different places.
This list covers 688 days – 8/23/2008 to 7/12/2010
We eat at a new place approximately once every 6.6 days.
We’ve eaten in 7 different states: GA, CA, PA, IL, TX, FL, NY
22 of 26 letters have been covered – missing letters: Q, V, X, Z
Currently Craving: Holeman and Finch Public House
Apr 22nd
“The Burger”, at Holeman and Finch Public House, here in Atlanta, GA. While a good standby favorite (on the occasion you can actually score one), I’ve enjoyed everything else off the menu that I’ve tried there. Pork belly, pig tail, charcuterie – I’m ready to explore the rest of the menu.
White Lasagna
Apr 21st
This is something I definitely need to try. I must have some kind of penchant towards ordinarily-red-but-adapted-to-be-white Italian foods – white pizza, alfredo/pesto pastas, cannolis (okay that’s always been white). In fact, I think I usually prefer the white version over their red counterparts (please don’t hurt me, Italian readers).
Anyways, I saw this via Twitter from Adam (@amateurgourmet) who authors The Amateur Gourmet, one of the many food blogs I’m constantly perusing through. As he is an ex-Atlantan, I subconsciously instill more faith in his food-brain and tastebuds. Besides, if you peruse deep enough, you’ll see that he manages to bang out some serious stuff out of a not-so-big New York apartment kitchen. That alone is quite impressive.
So here’s the recipe (after the jump), shamelessly stolen off his site. The whole vegetarian thing sets off some serious red flags, but I’m sure a little pork shoulder or roast chicken should fix it right up. I really like how it’s been borrowed and tweaked via a variety of sources. Crowd-sourced recipes are great! (By the way, consider this to be my official claim of ownership and inventorship of the phrase “crowd-sourced recipes” and all its punctuational and capitalization varietals.)
From http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2010/04/white_lasagna.html:
Review: Thaicoon & Sushi Bar
Mar 30th
www.thaicoonatlanta.com
1799 Briarcliff Rd NE # W
Atlanta, GA 30306-2142
(404) 817-9805
So L has been having this craving for sushi recently, and as a means of filling her cravings as well as further our restaurant repertoire, we bypassed the standby Sushi Yoko and went online to find somewhere to broaden our somewhat barren horizons for sushi in Atlanta.
Our requirements were fairly simple – it had to be affordable (MF and Hayakawa were out) and somewhere new (so was Sushi Yoko). It was also preferable that it wasn’t a buffet (*sob* bye Nori Nori). L knows I have this thing against Yelp, because I have some egotistical thought that people who post reviews on Yelp are uncouth heathens with uneducated palates who would rather get a double cheeseburger from McDonalds. Then I remembered that I like double cheeseburgers from McDonalds. Regardless, Yelp is always a last resort for me.
Since the forums on Atlanta Cuisine closed down (for the umpteenth time), I didn’t have anywhere else to quietly lurk to get my inside Atlanta restaurant info. Fortunately, the regulars from Atlanta Cuisine rebanded under a new forum: 285Foodies.com. It was there where I carefully perused all the thread titles under the restaurant section to look for my unicorn cheap sushi place here in Atlanta – some authentic hole in the wall place by some trained Japanese sushi chef that’s trying to make it big in the States. Unfortunately, if such a place exists, it still hasn’t been a) discovered, or the more likely b) leaked out even to the food connoisseur community.
At the end, I rediscovered Thaicoon – a Thai/sushi place that has a fairly silly name over by Emory. I ate there a number of years ago, when Andy came to visit and it made for a nice weekend lunch with like 12 other people. It obviously was not good enough to leave a very lasting impression on me food-wise, and never even really came up mentally as a working solution to the sparse Thai cuisine here.
But on to the actual experience. We were greeted at our table by a lady who tonged us some hot towels, which reminded me of the similar service when you fly trans-Pacific on a decent airline (Air China != decent). The sushi roll section of the menu (despite its ethnic authenticity, was what L really wanted) was surprisingly extensive, and even better is that they have specials on Monday and Tuesday from 5pm-10pm. The constant stream of people coming in were evident of the weekly specials, and made us wonder what the place looks like on a Wednesday night. Specials were $1 for most nigiri and $2-$3 for a 4 piece roll for select rolls. Not too shabby, I thought, but we decided to order something off the menu anyways.
What we ended up with, via my awesome cell phone cam, after the jump.
I Heart NY Bagels
Mar 26th
Here are some common words I have been using to describe my imported New York bagel breakfasts these past few mornings:
- bagelicious
- bageltastic
- bagemazing
- inbagelable
- the bagel-diggity
- round and toasty