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I gotta give David Pocasangre Vaquiz some credit. Dude has some balls, a touch of creativity, and a major boner for clams. Vaquiz was detained at Washington Dulles in DC with approximately 80 clams in his luggage. What makes this story unique is that the El Salvadorian native had stuffed each of the clam shells …
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Dan Loker, who went by the online handle of KoPP, has passed on. The announcement was made early this morning by Mike Stock, who runs the 285 Foodies forum. Though I never met him myself, KoPP was a prolific participant on the site and known to many of folks around these parts.
Back in early August, Tomorrow’s News Today reported that famed Decatur restaurant Watershed was on its way to the South Buckhead neighborhood of Brookwood Hills. The details were simply that the restaurant was opening in the Brookwood Condominium complex at 1833 Peachtree Rd. That report was quickly disputed by What Now Atlanta, TNT’s arch nemesis. …
I constantly look at how restaurants use Facebook and Twitter. While it never factors into my reviews, I do track what’s said for newsworthy tidbits and such. In fact, I have an RSS folder that constantly needs checking due to the vast number of Atlanta restaurants that use the two services. But just because they …
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Just a quick little “coming soon” post. The Porch at Collier is a new restaurant set to open at 1201 Collier Rd. The free standing building was last home to Hong Li and sits near a Figo outpost on the borders of Cross Creek and Underwood Hills. Originally slated to open in August, the date …
Mark this one down in the “You have got to be kidding me” category. So apparently, the NCAA had to issue proposal 2011-78. 2011-78 permits an institution “to provide bagel spreads (e.g., butter, peanut butter, jelly, cream cheese) with bagels it may provide to a student-athlete at any time.” Apparently, bagels were already legit … …
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While it’s far from the most expensive thing in town and there are certainly more elevated restaurants in the city, Buckhead’s Café Agora always finds its way onto my list of favorite/best/suggested eats in Atlanta. Not much has changed with the food since I used Agora as an early guinea pig in my writing career. …
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View Larger Map The intersection of Fort St and Irwin Street may not be the most welcoming intersection in Atlanta. However, it has become a point of interest for yours truly. You see, I drive on Fort St. quite a bit as it serves as an access road to I-75/I-85 thru Downtown. Much to my …
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Time to get all “journalistic” on you peeps. Step 1 On Friday, Spark Plug let it be known that David Sweeney, Atlanta’s leading vegetablemonger, was on his way to Cakes & Ale. As she noted: Dynamic Dish chef David Sweeney is slated to head the new bakery at Cakes & Ale for its daily lunch …
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For the updated information, please visit this post! I’m mobile so ill be back later to update everyone on this text that I just got: Just got a wind of this so I tweeted this: Dynamic Dish chef David Sweeney slated to launch bakery lunch service at Cakes&Ale in a couple of weeks!!!