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Fresno Dilemma
It sounds like some up and down in the kitchen staffing at Limon? Would be very interested in your next experience there. Restaurants are a very tough business.
Fresno Dilemma
Love Thai. The following week we'll be at Lotus of Siam in Las Vegas...my better half enjoys it and humors me.
Re GPS411 from Polar Bear below. All things being equal, CPB has the highest first night probability.
Except that on a deep and resonant level, Browndogs2 and I are on the same wavelength, re what Browndogs2 wrote up thread: 'The (CPB) menu simply doesn't resonate with me in the way that Trelio's & Limon's do.'
Hence the Fresno Dilemma!
Fresno Dilemma
browndogs2 and everyone, great feedback.
Good news. Just the kind of current 411 I was hoping for.
Bad news. After Trelio, choice for our first night remains murky.
We have several weeks, however, until our mid-June trip. Rather than making one choice at a distance, It's all about gathering options based on how we feel after a cross country trip and the drive north up I-5, everyones 'humour' and so forth. if it weren't for the fact that we are self-catering rather than eat National Park provender for four of the next five days, I'd be happy that first night with an Armenian deli takeout spread, a couple of stiff drinks and a bottle of wine. Since there is a birthday about that weeknight, however, the odds are we'll go out somewhere not too far from our Shaw Ave digs.
Your feedback is greatly valued.
Fresno Dilemma
Fresno dilemma--an embarrassment of riches.
With Fresno the two night pivot point for our swing through the High Sierras, our mid-June Fresno chow choices have been narrowed to two of these three, in no particular order:
--Trelio
--Cracked Pepper Bistro
--Limon.
Questions--what's needed is current 411:
--Are all three of the above hitting on all cylinders right now?
--We love Peruvian food and several years ago enjoyed Mochica (the Mission location) in San Francisco quite a bit. Is Limon of better quality? If yes, this would be valuable info.
Notes:
--For several self-catered breakfast/lunches while in the national parks, we have jotted down Occasion Bakery (even if we miss their Friday falafel special) and Fresno Deli; would Izi's be redundant?
--Hunan, as impressive as I truly believe it to be based on chowhounds' accolades, echoes the several fine Sichuan places here in Atlanta that we regularly patronize. Plus, we are only two, and two could never do justice to such a menu as Chef Liu's.
--Don Pepe's. There is never enough weekend carnitas. lengua or barbacoa de borrego or fresh shrimp in all its forms and manners of preparation, nor sufficient time to eat it. Thank goodness that we don't lack for three of the four (fresh wild caught shrimp is increasingly hard to come by) here at home.
California for two weeks - SF, Napa, Yosemite, and Highway One [trip report]
Invaluable trip report, especially where it overlaps our upcoming trip from LAX to Bakersfield layover to Fish Camp/Yosemite.
Winery tours. With all due respect, once you've seen one winery from stem to stern, there's not much that's novel to see. And as far as tasting goes, unless you have the palate and the daily exposure to the trade where you taste everyday it's impossible to make sense of young wines. Full disclosure: I'm an engineer who has owned two restaurants. Kudos.
Fish Camp. Thank you so much for your report on the Lodge and the Tenaya. We're planning on self-catering to the greatest extent possible for our two day visit to Yosemite.
SFO last night. We like to stay by the airport and eat in the Hong Kong place of the moment nearby. Coals to Newcastle for you, LOL?
South China Garden (formerly Cantoon Garden) – Still the Best Restaurant in Chinatown
Secret menu special during during Dec 2011 xmas week: 'Big' oysters steamed with minced pork sauteed with shrimp paste, black beans and scallions. On the first visit two filled an 11" oval; on the second visit one filled a 9" oval. Had the oysters themselves not been so good, the price could have been the best part: $1.00 each. Yes, a buck each.
When we had tried to over-order by almost a factor of two and thus enabling chow radar and engaging our ESL wait person into discussion, only then were we made aware of the Big Oysters. Sadly, however, we were unable to order the twin lobsters--it was just too much. Sigh.
Ditto praise for the Seafood Stuffed Long Hot Pepper. And the Stir Fried Stringbeans, with that same minced pork/shrimp paste and the addition of preserved vegetable.
Cons: the salt baked squid. Heavy handed breading, would not re-order.
Thank you Manhattan board, and Lau.
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South China Garden
22 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013
Review: The Two Best Fuzhou Restaurants
J. Good call on Katz's.
Flame on.
Let no one of us fool ourselves: A Reuben sandwich is a sin against corned beef and rye bread. Swiss cheese jam up to brined brisket (aka corned beef) and mayonnaise blended with ketchup (i.e. Russian dressing) reflect bourgeois debased dining tastes
Sauerkraut, however, continues to exist entirely on its own merits.
Flame off.
Go for a corned beef. Go for a pastrami. On rye. With mustard. Get a pickle. Go for a slice of neighborhood pizza. All are NY culinary time machine artifacts still worth pursuing.
The conventional wisdom used to be that if a Lunch Car (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Lunch_Car_Company) had a sign that said 'Home Cooking' you should run the other way as fast as you could. The modern corollary is that if an establishment has been on TV you should do the same thing.
Best to go for the home cooking that's good now--i.e. hand pulled noodles.
Flame off.
Hunan Manor – Excellent Hunan Food in Manhattan and Maybe One of the Best Chinese Restaurants in the New York
After a long travel day, libations will be welcomed, so not for nothing, but are beer and wine sold, or is it BYOB?
Gu's Bistro- Buford Hwy- amazing Szechuan!
Although Silk Road 'fusion' is just about the hottest thing in Beijing this year and last year, few chefs practiced in it other than Peter Chang have made their way to Atlanta, and the cost of the depth of trained kitchen staff necessary to pull it off remains prohibitive here.
For 'home style' Sichuan from a practiced Chengdu native, Gu's is my pick right now. As ever with Atlanta's Chinese restaurant soap opera scene, carpe diem.
Gu's Bistro- Buford Hwy- amazing Szechuan!
+1 * 1000.
The pictures are here: http://285foodies.com/forum/index.php?topic=2414.msg16748#msg16748
Finally--a Sichuan restaurant for Atlanta where flavor, technique trump salt blast and msg cheap tricks.
What is it with SFO/Central Coast and High Alcohol Wine Lists?
> Melanie Wong--"light, low-alcohol, slightly fizzy white."
Ok, I got what I came for, in this case both validation and enlightenment. And never again will I mistake a brown (not green) bottle inside of which is wine labeled 'Alvarinho' as anything but. Doh, because I--of all people--should have known better.
What is it with SFO/Central Coast and High Alcohol Wine Lists?
In a just completed week of estimable eating in San Francisco, Portland and the Monterey Peninsula (Hakka, Perbacco, Mochica, Millbrae-Asian Pearl, Stockton / Jackson St take away dim sum and Plow in Potrero Hill and Kenny and Zukes in Portland), our penultimate night at a Chowhound favored Monterey Peninsula seafood restaurant confronted us with a 300+ bottle wine list.
'We're both eating fish--let's get a crisp white, although not a real Chablis because it would blow the whole dinner budget on a north of $100 bottle, maybe a good muscadet or lighter Italian white' I muttered to myself.
I leafed through the weighty wine book with the embossed front cover. Pages turned. Reds, super reds, new world centric, high alcohol (14% minimum) cabernets, merlots, pinot noirs and zinfindels chardonnays, new world pinot grigios and sauvignon blancs all got dismissed out of hand. Too headache-y, too red, too oak-y, too vanilla-y, too high sugar to balance the high alcohol, too wrong for seafood.
Finally a full page was labeled 'Vibrant Whites'.
'Aha' I thought to myself. My kind of wines. There was only one problem. Almost all of them were 13% alcohol and greater.
So what's the problem one might ask? When pairing with food, it's my taste to drink anti-Wine Advocate anti-Robert Parker market proven style composed wines. (There are exceptions--but those I prefer simple pairings, with cheese for example.)
Rather, wines made in the classic style, less then 13% alcohol. Red or white--the razor applies to both. We drink these daily at home--from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Even my old classmate of Freya Cellars, whom I haven't seen or spoke to in years since the vines were young, makes only Pinot Noir from vines he planted himself up in Oregon, and only at less than 13% alcohol. And he sells out by subscription every year. It's reassuring as it affirms that I'm not way way weird.
From the 'Vibrant White' section, I inquired after a $35 Sancerre. '14%' answered the waiter after returning from the wine wall where 300 bottle specific wine summaries were posted for the waitstaff. Then I asked after another. She asked if I had other questions so she could get all the answers in one trip to the reference section.
'I'm not sure' I said 'I need to get some answers first'. She sent over the manager/sommelier. I asked her the same questions.
'Sorry--it's global warming. They are even growing chardonnay in Germany. It's unlikely we have anything you would like'.
I tuned her out muy pronto. Where is she getting this drivel (not about global warming, but about wine making styles, global warming and chardonnay--Salon, wine salesmen)?
So I ordered an expensive Vinho Verde. 'Alvarinho' it also said. We tasted it. It was grapefruity, but in a mineral styled ok way. Not nearly like so many grapefruit pith tasting Spanish albarinos. ALBARARINOS . I slapped myself upside the head. This was no more a vinho verde than I'm a 20 something wine wanna be. It was an albarino, albeit Portuguese and rather good for its kind. It had a brown glass bottle. How could I have not seen it?
Maybe because it was misleadingly labeled in the weighty 17 mile Drive centric wine book?
But I didn't say a word. My wife fidgeted. That's what she does when she is almost out of patience and about to head to the bar to console herself. That's about as serious as it gets. I sucked down the wine and laughed at myself for having gotten snagged into an albarino when I was after a simple fun vinho verde, a know-it-all as momentarily clueless as any babe in the woods wanna be.
The next night at Asian Pearl in Millbrae, our final dinner, we ate like kings for little--Steamed Giant Clam sliced with garlic, Roast Pork, Salt and Pepper Squid and Mustard Greens (Sherlihon). The pork with salt fish was a too rare plate sized sausage patty too underdone to merit re-order, but we didn't care. With a couple of beers and tip the bill was only 60% of the previous night's well north of $100 tab.
Sigh. And some drool worthy pictures:
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Perbacco
230 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Mochica
937 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Anyone tried Gourmet Village (Chinese) in Millbrae?
At the risk of veering off-thread, for a Friday night last SFO supper after a whirlwind itinerary--what would be the the best Millbrae and environs' choice(s)? (We are staying at an airport hotel in the area, and after supper will return the car to Enterprise.) As ever--thanks in advance.
A couple nights in Norcross, would love to find foodie spots
Sushi Mito is my neighborhood place, 3 minutes from the house, and a solid workmanlike option at friendly pub prices. Whenever the budget permits, however, we go eight minutes to Sushi House Hayakawa where the food is over the top. Both are good choices.
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Sushi House Hayakawa
5979 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30340
A couple nights in Norcross, would love to find foodie spots
Nearby:
Stone Bowl House Woo Nam Jeong-
5953 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA - (678) 530-0844
The best Korean food in Atlanta currently. skip the 12 course dinner and the bulgolgi. Go for the whole mackeral, seafood pancake, bibimbap dolsot, stews, jigae's and soups.
Hong Kong Supermarket
5495 Jimmy Carter Blvd # A15, Norcross, GA
Left side front: Hong Kong Bakery. Good Banh Mi, spring rolls, Out the door and a couple of doors around to the left the Tofu place--makes it own tofu, vg spring rolls, plates, comfort food, all packed to go.
Right side: FoodCourt. Big Wong BBQ--meat that hangs in the window; exc chicken, roast pig, red pork. Woering--(sp?) terrific grandma style Malaysian food. Get the combo plate.
Mi Pilon
5705 Buford Hwy, Norcross, GA - (770) 797-2924
Vg Dominican/Caribbean style food served by two sisters. Everyone from Norcross cops, to office workers to Caribbean hipsters belly up for homestyle food like lechon asado, oxtail, baked chicken, black beans, moros, yellow rice, maduros or plantanos. Beer, credit cards.
IMHO, MUST NOT MISS
Sushi House Hayakawa-
5979 buford highway, Norcross, GA
The flat out best sushi/small plates around. Small, intimate, extraordinary. But no 'buzz'--just the real thing. dinner only.
Tasty China. TastyChina.net is the web site.
585 Franklin Rd SE, Marietta, Georgia - (770) 419-9849
Chef Peter Chang (aka 'Zhang') is back. Incredible Sichuan, renowned even by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker. Outside of rush hour, a 30 minute drive from your location. If you have the energy and focus for the drive setting out around 7:00 PM, grab up everybody you can and head over--but not on Monday--Mr. Zhang's day off.
My office is also at Jimmy Carter / P'tree Industrial. For lunch we like Hong Kong Supermarket and environs (above); and El Indio Beaver Ruin Road for $1 tacos lengua, asada, al pastor.
Also--Quoc Huong, 5150 Buford Hwy NE, Doraville, GA 3034 for combination Banh Mi. But the rolls are better at Hong Kong Supermarket environs. http://www.chowdownatlanta.com/atlanta-banh-mi-guide/
Norcross is one of Atlanta's epicenters for terrific food. Your colleagues might favor the generic blandness of Ted's Montana Grill or the mixology wonders (sic) at Holeman Finch, but for the fortunate Norcross based intrepid--eat often, eat much and spend little. You will leave sated. Too--forget Buckhead, unless you esteem small portions, similarly small sized things clad in black by the front door and upsold per person check averages. When my better half insists on something nice and the opportunity to put on the dog, Buckhead is among the places that get our business. But the places above get our patronage.
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Nam
931 Monroe Drive Suite 101-A, Atlanta, GA 30308
Tasty China
585 Franklin Rd SE Ste 215, Marietta, GA 30067
Food Court
675 W Peachtree St NW Ste C1, Atlanta, GA 30308
Mi Pilon
5705 Buford Hwy, Norcross, GA 30071
Sushi House Hayakawa
5979 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30340
Palomilla's
6470 Spalding Dr, Norcross, GA 30092
Seattle (former L.A.) Chowhound needs advice
Thanks Tom. In amongst our three nights are intermingled some work, some family and a dress up night.
As molecular gastronomy leaves me cold (sic)--we'll probably say a prayer and aim for La Ciccia.
Hakka--I'm hopeful. The problem is possible push back after walk-about dim sum earlier that day. In truth--SFO is like the most charming dime a dance girl willing to endlessly twirl me around, then leave me gasping on the sideline as she waltzes off for more. Maybe that's why I keep coming back.
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La Ciccia
291 30th Street, San Francisco, CA 94131
Seattle (former L.A.) Chowhound needs advice
Tom, good to see your timely inquiry and erstwhile responses from old Chow friends.
Please continue to drop breadcrumbs and reports as we too have an upcoming long work/play weekend in downtown SFO. Already I'm plotting a safari from the financial district out to Hakka (40 min by bus, oy). Although isn't that what getting away is very much about--disrupting the time lines and kicking back?
Chinatown - Chamblee
Two words: Chef Liu. She was the other dumpling chef, and is making all the pastries now, albeit Tianjin style. Too, Mr. Chung is cooking at Chef Liu--he was Frank's main kitchen guy. Frank and Amy themselves are happily retired.
Chef Liu
5221 Buford Highway Northwest, Doraville, GA - (770) 936-0532
Atlanta. Beren's Frozen Custard???
I am truly excited--and for the first time in over 30 years living in Atlanta I now have a reason to go to Snellville. or more specifically:
Berens Frozen Custard
1132 athens hwy
Grayson, Georgia
Thank you. Many times over.
Atlanta must-eats for visitors from New York!
World class home cooking to put anything on the 7 Train to shame.
Gordita's La Rancherita
2055 Beaver Ruin Rd
Norcross, GA 30071-3650
(678) 206-0107
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Atlanta_Restaurants_gordita_s_la_rancherita/GoodEats/Content?oid=oid:680724&contentView=clReview
They make all their own masa. Everything is extraordinary--especially the hand made tortillas, gorditas, sopes. Salsa verde made with roasted jalapenos. Get a chorizo and papas quesadilla,, or carne asada. Get the barbecoa con consomme. Get a caldo de pollo. Get 3 or four gorditas and a quesadilla--this way you get to try a lot of things for not a lot of money. We are now up to $23 and you have more food than four can eat. Credit cards, even, and beer, and fresh squeezed juices and freshly prepared shakes (liguados). Read the above link. If you are still hungry, the panaderia (bakery) next door has exc flan, daily special cakes etc.
[Atlanta] does Gordita's La Rancherita have lengua or tripas?
I'm not sure. Mega Taco, next door, is under the same ownership and has both.
http://www.chowdownatlanta.com/mega-taco/
Across Beaver Ruin is El Indio. Vg lengua. All dollar tacos. Get the meatball soup (sopa albondigas).
All that said, eat first at Gordita's. You won't be sorry. And you owe us an EXTENSIVE report!
how is One Flew South at Atlanta airport?
ok Adorno. here is an optimum solution.
Two minutes off I-85 South and 34 minutes from the Atlanta Airport, Indian Trail Exit, go right on to Indian Trail. Go about 1/8 mile, just past Lowes and before the next light and intersection with Beaver Ruin, turn left into the strip center with the Little Giant Farmers Market and go to the far end.
Gordita's La Rancherita atlantacuisine.com/forum/index.php/topic,6329.0.html
2055 Beaver Ruin Rd
Norcross, GA 30071-3650
(678) 206-0107
It's a drive by, a total of 30 min from the time you leave the hwy until you are back onto the hwy. They make all their own masa. Everything is extraordinary--especially the hand made tortillas, gorditas, sopes. Make sure they pack you up lots of their salsa verde made with roasted jalapenos. Get a chorizo and papas quesadilla,, or carne asada. Get the barbecoa con consomme. Get a caldo de pollo. Get 3 or four gorditas and a quesadilla--this way you get to try a lot of things for not a lot of money. We are now up to $23 and you have more food than four can eat. Credit cards, even. Read the above link. If you are still hungry, the panaderia (bakery) next door has exc flan, daily special cakes etc. This is world class home cooking to put anything on the 7 Train to shame.
Please report back.
dinner between U. of GA and Atlanta airport or at airport?
You need to leave from your ATL dining location 3 hours before flight time.
Two that could work are:
1. Fox Brothers BBQ
2. Tasty China (Sichuan)
Both are a 'taste of Atlanta'. Tasty China is arguably as good as Sichuan food gets in the US. This assumes not Monday, as that is the main chef's day off. Fox Brothers are noted for two things: ribs, and the Thursday short rib special which often carries forward a few days. If you leave either one by say 4:30, you will be at the airport in max 1 hour--with a full hour of 'slack'.
Let us know what works!
PS--Tasty China is BYOB.
Seoul in September
I'll be in Seoul the same week, my fourth visit. Seoul is huge. I try to focus on places near where I'm staying and with good subway access and directions
Having been to Insadong once, it's like a Korean West Village. Itaewon, once is enough too.
Last visit I got to try weekday breakfast at the Grand Hyatt--a $30 meal that flat out was the equal of any hotel meal I ever had and on a par with many fine restos--go figure. I also ate supper three times at small place in Yeoido 3 doors down from my hotel that had excellent samgyeopsal (pork belly), It was close, convenient and decent.
On a visit to Namdaemun Market around lunchtime, I saw delivery people balancing trays atop their heads. I followed one into a narrow street into an alley into a pathway to bustling restaurant packed with Korean ladies who lunch. I quickly joined them and pointed my way to Doen Jang Jiigae. Very decent.
This visit I'm staying near Gongdeok Station, at the transfer point of two subway lines, although most of my visit will not be in Seoul. I am hoping though, to make it to Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan on Sunday before heading up to the 'factory' to work.
Good luck! Let us know what you find.
Anyone tried Varasano's Pizzeria in Atlanta?
stop by the AtlantaCuisine dottt commm web site for many locals' first impressions.
To Go Dim Sum and others, thank you
We just finished a too short visit for a family wedding.
Each of three mornings began with Stockton Street environs To Go Dim Sum.
First up was Good Mong Kok, the line out the door bakery with the great bacony cookies, good sticky rice, vg dumplings and excellent sui mai. From there, a wander down the street to Wing Sing where a crowd attracted our attention. Wing Sing delivered vg pot stickers and more dumplings.
On the second day I was alone. I walked up Clay Street from down by the water and started at You's, definitely the price performer of all places tried. As before, what drew me in was the crowd. Point, choose. The dumplings with handmade wrappers were all very good. Not surprisingly, those with machine made rice wrappers suffered in all respects. Pot stickers were doughy but good.
Then pot stickers redux at Wing Sing. Man cannot live by dumplings alone, however, and I walked along jonesing for BBQ. At a store that was busy, where the roast pig was$5.99 per pound--$2 more than the cheapest I had seen--I grabbed a half pound and ate it on the street.
Teetering now, I stumbled down Jackson St. I looked in an out of several places but finally, Delicious Dim Sum drew me in. One sticky rice and one Mustard Green/Green Chive/Shrimp round dumpling was all I could manage. The sticky rice was clean tasting and well composed. The round dumpling was more--it was perfect. Great interplay of flavors with a delicate thin fresh rice flour skin. Golden Gate Bakery was out of egg custard tarts, but their chocolate cookies were insanely good and intense with dark chocolate chips set into a crisp cookie.
Day three, I led nine wedding guests--mostly dim sum virgins, on a tour. At You's I could hardly keep them from ordering the whole store. We then proceeded to Good Mong Kok and Wing Sing. It was difficult, but I managed to focus the majority of purchases at Delicious Dim Sum. And they were all either vg or excellent. Too, Delicious Dim Sum had far and away the best packaging. Lovely pink bakery boxes for your selections held together with pink ribbon.
The most lasting lesson of the three day To Go Dim Sum event was this: every place has its strengths and its weaknesses. Nothing can be assumed. No one place can be crowned 'the best'. One must look, observe and act with confidence and full knowledge that with a fifty cent per dumpling price of admission, there are no really bad choices. Watch which stores are busy. Keep pointing at the stacked up trays and ask to see what is in them. Watch what comes out of the kitchen fresh. Very soon you will learn to tell by observation the difference between machine made wrappers and hand made wrappers. Once you do, you are three quarters of the way home.
Other.
Poc Chuc. Post wedding dinner for ten. A totally class act from start to finish. Tamales coloso pork and chicken and poc chuc were the big winners. Lamb stew was bland, rather British in fact. Roast chicken was another one to reorder. Flan was sweet but very well made, as were the hand made tortillas. Our hosts were doubtful about the neighborhood, but walking from the 16th street and Mission BART was little different than walking around Brooklyn.
Old Jerusalem. Excellent parsley intense falafel. Good kibbee. Ok chicken and lamb kabobs. VG baba ganoujh and good hummes. Good tabouleh and yogurt salad.
Humphrey Slocumbe. Terrific. I just wish that they weren't sold out of chocolate. Not only chocolate ice cream but hot fudge too. Apparently the superb weather that day just cleaned them out.
So thank you SF hounds for all your past posts. They were helpful beyond measure. You led us to Good Mong Kok, and from there Chinatown reached out and embraced us.
You's
http://www.chow.com/places/13941
Delicious Dim Sum
http://www.chow.com/places/7573
Good Mong Kok
http://www.chow.com/places/16583
Wing Sing
http://www.chow.com/places/14149
Need BEST affordable Ethnic Dinner in ATL
You've got some great suggestions so far. Let me add one, for the best Sichuan food bar none: Tasty China. So inexpensive that you should bring a cooler, order for four and your bill will still not reach $75. Get the Fish Soup with Parsley (and preserved vegetable), Dry Fried Eggplant (MUST). Dan Dan Noodle--spicy w/ pork. Orange beef appetizer (comes hot and spicy automatically). Chicken with Three Mushrooms. Hot Braised Fish. Shelihon (green leafy vegetable 2nd cousin to mustard greens), Ma Po Tofu, about everything from the authentic Sichuan menu. btw--the above dishes, enough for five to six people would total around $65. BYOB.
Royal China has the best dim sum right now, peak hours are 11:30 to 1:15.
Jang Su Jang is next up on our list.
Asiana for Sunday Indian Buffet lunch.
But Tasty China will transport you.
Joeyness - Great falafels!
An excellent tip for my airport box lunch.
Seriously noteworthy are the transcendental felafel that manage to serve two masters (1) the addition of fava beans lightens the textures in the style of Egyptian and Lebanese felafel and (2) the use of parsely and cumin drive towards the Israeli flavor profile. As such, the felafel are truly transcendental.
Great Lebanese pickles. Great lentil soup. Great coffee. Very good baba ghanouj.
Pita bread very thin and light and the Shatirah baked goods (although neither are baked there) both excellent.
As you may have gathered, I think this place is a jewel, and its staff a treasure.
Thank you again.
Frank Ma's Dinho - Atlanta, GA
Look in the next day or so over on atlantacuisineDOTcom/gatherings for an Atlanta folk "mass feeding" at Frank Ma's, upcoming. Sincerely looking forward to you guys making it after having enjoyed so many of your posts.
Frank Ma's Sliced Fish In Hot OIl features not baby peppers but baby bamboo shoots, split--deemed a great delicacy even if canned. The sliced fish is tilapia--it's a budget thing.
