We’ve been on a lot of brewery “tours” in the Atlanta area and have always wondered how nice it would be if the breweries could serve a little food with the beer tasting. Georgia law forbids it, but if you are a restaurant that brews its own beer, you can serve all of the food… Read More The Wrecking Bar: 1/11/13
Happy New Year! It’s the first Date Night of 2013, and to commemorate the occasion, we are headed to the restaurant that is first on many lists in Atlanta. The Optimist is the most blogged about restaurant in Atlanta as well as Esquire Magazine’s Restaurant of the Year for 2012. Because of all the great… Read More The Optimist: 1/4/13
Date Night has lived in East Cobb since 1985, and one constant throughout our years here is the lack of a good “foodie” restaurant. You can get good bagels, pizza, and frozen yogurt in East Cobb, but besides La Strada, there are not a lot of places that get lovers of food excited. This all… Read More Seed Kitchen and Bar: 12/28/12
According to the Mayan calendar, it’s the end of the world as we know it. For what the Mayans feel might be our last meal, Date Night goes to a place where fiery volcanos adorn the walls, and a wood-fired oven cooks our pizza. We are at Pizzeria Vesuvius in the Old Fourth Ward. For… Read More Pizzeria Vesuvius: 12/21/12
Our regular readers might remember the “12 Beers of Christmas” dinner that we did at Food 101 last December on Date Night #11. Food 101 is not doing an event this year, so we set out in search of another Christmas beer dinner. Lo and behold, we saw a snippet by Bob Townsend in the… Read More The Bells of Christmas at Big Tex: 12/13/12
Sometimes Date Night has to call an audible on our dinner plans. Tonight is that kind of night. We are headed for the Wrecking Bar in Little Five Points. When we get there, the special events facility above it is so packed that there is not a parking space to be had within a mile… Read More One Eared Stag: 12/7/12
Sometimes you just want a nice, quiet meal in a neighborhood restaurant where everyone knows your name. Date Night gets off the beaten path in Roswell for another good meal. We have hit many of the places on the Roswell main drag, but tonight we find ourselves in a shopping center behind the Krispy Kreme.… Read More Oak Street Cafe: 11/30/12
It’s Date Night #50 and before we get to the food, let’s look back at our first 49 dates. We have been to an incredible variety of restaurants all over Atlanta and have not repeated a single one. All but two of our selections (Botekim Brazillian and Baroni Italian) are still in business. We’ve gone… Read More Muss & Turner’s (Date Night #50): 11/23/12
Date Night heads for the Virginia-Highlands tonight in search of the best Italian food in Atlanta. Our loyal readers will remember that we last visited the Highlands on Date Night #16 back in January, when we went to Highland Tap and Murphy’s. Tonight, on Date Night #49 we have another Va-Hi sampler planned, but things… Read More Virginia Highlands Sampler: 11/16/12
Date Night returns to the West Side, and tonight we roll some balls, drink some beer and lick our fingers. We are at Bone Lick BBQ, which is an offspring of P’cheen in the Old Fourth Ward. Seems that BBQ night at P’cheen was so popular that they opened up their own BBQ place. We… Read More Bone Lick BBQ: 11/9/12
Date Night gets trendy and heads to Bocado, one of the hottest spots on the Westside. It’s not quite as hot as The Optimist (just named restaurant of the year by Esquire Magazine), where we could not get a reservation, but look for us to visit there when the hype cools down a bit. Bocado… Read More Bocado: 10/26/12
We’ve always had a lot of luck with restaurants that have “numbers” in their name. No. 246 in Decatur, Five and Ten in Athens, Nine St. Kitchen in Roswell, and 61 Main in Jasper are just a few of the “numbered” places that we have visited in the last six months. For Date Night #46,… Read More Local Three: 10/12/12
It’s Oktoberfest in Atlanta, and to celebrate, Date Night drinks a lot of beer and eats large quantities of German food. We are at Der Biergarten, which was recently voted one of the Top 10 Beer Gardens in the country by The USA Today. Read on as Date Night discovers “Munich on Marietta Street”. Accompanying… Read More Der Biergarten: 10/5/2012
Tonight Date Night tries to answer the ages-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. We are about a mile west of the Marietta square in a nondescript shopping center that holds a restaurant that’s always popping up on those “Best of Atlanta” lists in the “old media”, newspapers and magazines. Full… Read More Chicken and the Egg: 9/28/2012
La Paz is a place where we have met friends for many different occasions over the years. It’s centrally located in Vinings and it’s been here for what seems like forever in the restaurant business. In fact, the plaque on the former church says it was restored in 1995, so they must be doing something… Read More La Paz: 9/21/12
An early exit from downtown allows us to do another date night in the suburbs. Roger has been pushing for Lucky’s Burgers for a while (many of our cycling friends go there after their rides), so in an effort to check that one off the list, we head to Roswell for fun and food and… Read More Roswell Tap/Lucky’s Burgers & Brew: 9/7/12
If you visit a brewery and a taqueria on the same date, you are probably having a great night. Date Night sips suds and tastes tacos in the Collier Hills area for one fun experience. We have tasted at every brewery in the Atlanta area except for one: Red Brick. We have sampled at Sweetwater,… Read More Verde Taqueria: 8/24/12
It’s the 40th edition of Date Night, which is not a bad tally for the last 14 months. Believe us, you don’t want to know how much we have spent on the last 40 dates! Tonight finds us in the heart of beautiful downtown Vinings, right in the thick of things at the Vinings Jubilee… Read More SOHO (Vinings): 8/17/12
Date Night hits Canton Street in Roswell, where we spend some time in the jailhouse, catch trout in a salt factory, and top it all off with a cupcake. It’s a terrific trio of restaurants on the north side as Date Night gives you a three for one deal. Read on to find out who… Read More Roswell Pub Crawl: 8/10/12
Perhaps you have noticed that the Olympics are all over television these days. In keeping with the Olympic spirit, Date Night heads to a British pub for this week’s festivities. So you feel as if you are really in England, we’ll also sprinkle in a couple of pictures of British scenes this week. Pour yourself… Read More Rose and Crown: 8/3/12
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