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Pick of The Week: Villains Wicked Heroes
By Tom Maicon at May 15, 2013 | 11:40 am | 0 Comment
My four-yeard bellied up to the bar one sunny Sunday afternoon at newly opened Villains Wicked Heroes (903 Peachtree St. Midtown Tel: 404.347.3335). She situated her little butt in the bar stool — looked up to the television playing classic cartoons — and, immediately flagged down the bartender like she owned the place. “Could you please turn on Dora?” more...
Pick of The Week: Campania Pizzeria Napoletana
By Tom Maicon at May 2, 2013 | 9:44 am | 0 Comment
It was only day one of the restaurant's existence and two young straight-laced men garbed in matching corporate embroidered golf shirts were snapping photos of the sexy pizza oven at Campania Pizzeria Napoletana (800 N Main St. Ste 100, Alpharetta Tel: 770.559.4674) with their cell phones. During subsequent visits, I spotted hip dressed foodie couples — possibly more...
Pick of The Week: Taqueria Del Mar
By Tom Maicon at April 17, 2013 | 2:07 pm | 0 Comment
Over the years I’ve learned that people who make good food — whether it be at home or in a restaurant — tend to be the most reliable palates when dining out. That’s why I pay particularly close attention to where my favorite chefs and home gourmands are eating, rather than filtering through the general public spew on websites such as Yelp and Urban Spoon. more...
Pick of The Week: Pier 213 Seafood
By Tom Maicon at March 3, 2013 | 3:09 pm | 0 Comment
Pier 213 35 South Marietta Pkwy SW, Marietta Tel: 678.290.8170 If you ask me, we don't have enough seafood restaurants in this town. So, it is nice to see a flurry of fish joints open over the past eight months. The latest fish house to open its doors is Pier 213 in Marietta. Owners Kevin Sakprasit along with sister Kammie Richardson and husband Tom, a family more...
New Dishes at Tasty China II
By Tom Maicon at February 26, 2013 | 1:45 am | 2 Comments
If you've already eaten your way through the rather extensive menu at Tasty China II then you will be happy to know chef Jiguo Jiang — the young gun responsible for both Tasty China kitchens — has recently added twenty new dishes, give or take. I tackled all but a couple of these new additions in two belt buckle-loosening trips. Below are some of the highlights. more...
Ah, Shucks: A quest for Atlanta’s best oysters on the half shell
By Tom Maicon at February 14, 2013 | 6:54 pm | 6 Comments
Many believe raw oysters give men a sex boost. And, maybe they do. After all, raw oysters do contain a large amount of zinc, an element vital for testosterone, sperm, and semen production, all side effects that could increase the sexual stamina in men. If you browse around the Internet, you'll see that according to the Mayo Clinic, men lose on average about one more...
Pick of The Week: Umaido
By Tom Maicon at January 22, 2013 | 10:55 am | 0 Comment
Summer of 2009 I first wrote about Umaido (2790 Lawrenceville Suwanee Road Suwanee, Tel: 678.318.8568) our city’s first ramen-ya. Since then, one or two other noodle shops have opened but for some reason none seem to measure up to this one. So, here I am more than three years later writing about this cool little noodle bar again. Not much has changed since my more...
A Tale of Two French Restaurants
By Tom Maicon at January 22, 2013 | 10:52 am | 0 Comment
Sittting at a table near the front window on a dreary rainy day at Au Rendez-Vous (4102 Clairmont Rd. Chamblee, Tel: 404.031.1968) our surly server (co-owner) placed our drinks down in front of us without the faintest notion of making eye contact. But before she could scurry off, I interrupted her mad dash. “Excuse me.” I said, just loud enough to catch her more...
Looking Back At 2012
By Tom Maicon at December 17, 2012 | 8:29 pm | 0 Comment
This year marked ten years for me covering the Atlanta restaurant scene. Looking back over the past decade, I think about our restaurant scene as two very different eras, pre and post economic disaster — or, more mildly stated — pre and post 2008. Pre-2008 was a very different life as money seemed to flow from everywhere. Young twenty-somethings returned from more...
Hudson North — 90 Days and Out
By Tom Maicon at November 15, 2012 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
The traditional (pre-Internet) rule for reviewing restaurants was to allow ninety days after opening to give the chef and staff a minute to gain its footing. I think that was fair. I mean, three months is quick, right? Well, anybody who waits ninety days to review Hudson North (19th Street W District Ave, Midtown @ Atlantic Station Tel: 404.747.2297), Atlanta's more...
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