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Barkers Red Hots Roswell: My Buffalo Connection
By Tom Maicon at August 9, 2011 | 9:17 am | 4 Comments
Food from Buffalo is severely under represented here in Atlanta, a city where it’s easy to find just about any type of cuisine. Sure, Buffalo-style chicken wings are everywhere, but I’m talking about beef on weck in all its salty, spicy, succulent glory, and those sexy Sahlen’s hot dogs. As far as I know, Barkers Red Hots on Windy Hill Road in Marietta has more...
Where the heck can I get a beef on weck?
By Tom Maicon at August 4, 2010 | 8:51 am | 5 Comments
Beef on weck is a sandwich indigenous to Buffalo, NY. It’s a beef sandwich (most use roast beef) with a smear of fresh horseradish on Kummelweck bread, which is unusually dense, adorned with caraway seeds and kosher salt. Unlike the fiery Buffalo chicken wing, beef on weck never really took off in the south, for whatever reason, but that doesn’t mean there more...
Two Institutions of Higher Wieners
By Tom Maicon at March 12, 2010 | 9:40 am | 10 Comments
There's plenty of hot dog joints here in the Atlanta area, but only two are recognized as hot dog institutions, besides The Varsity of course. Let's start with Brandi's World Famous Hot Dogs (1377 Church Street Ext NE, Marietta, 770.422.3681). This area classic started as Betty's World Famous Hot Dogs. Betty retired and sold the — along with her famous chili more...
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