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April Fools…

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I am obsessed with Java Jive on Ponce.  Located across from the Clairmont Lounge, I have now been here only four times in the 6 years I have lived here.  And all my visits have been within the last 4 weeks.  In fact, I am here now drinking my cup of decaf fabulous coffee and […]

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The name alone should make you want to go there…even if you are a vegetarian.  It sounds kinda cute.  Robin, Curtis, Alison and I visited Decatur’s newest restaurant, The Iberian Pig, last week and enjoyed it immensely. The place is warm with darker colors and wooden tables and chairs (not comfortable after an hour if […]

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On Friday night - let me say that again -on Friday night, Alison and I drove to Duluth in 5:00pm traffic.  Why you may ask?  Good question.  And one that may be too long of an answer.  Let’s just say we were going to see a wonderful young man in his first interpretive dance production […]

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So, I visited the new Kirkwood Corner Market like two weeks ago and am just writing about it.  I apologize - because I really did like it!  What a fun, fresh, new shop located on Hosea Williams Drive next to Coan Middle School.  It is a true market - with groceries, fabulous retro candies, chips, […]

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We should be ashamed that we lost such a great sandwich shop - and now friggin Birmingham has old man Ramirez and his famous Cuban sandwiches!  How we miss those delicious and amazing and inexpensive Cuban sandwiches packed in a paper bag while we try to eat them on the dilapidated picnic tables out back. […]

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I hate when people spell “country” and “cooking” with K’s - or just misspell a word all together for the heck of it.  It really grates on my nerves.  This is probably the reason I waited a good couple of months to go to lunch at the newer Spades Kountry Kookin in Kirkwood.   Alas, I […]

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We were wrong.  And we can admit that.  We first went to Repast a few years ago when it first opened.  It was a good meal, and we remember the cocktails being exceptional, but it fell into our - “good but not worth repeating” category.  Many restaurants suffer this fate from us because there are […]

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This hip new(er) spot from the U Restaurant Group in Midtown was packed on Saturday night when we arrived with our party of 8.  The neighbors in the condos above were out on their balconies having cocktails, complaining of the building wide smoke alarm that the restaurant, Cuerno, had set off - one of many […]

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