Category: restaurant reviews

  • Fresh in Woodstock: Ahura’s Kitchen

    Ahura’s Kitchen is a new Persian restaurant a mile or so from Rube’s Creek, set in a sleepy little strip mall high on a hill.

  • What’s I’ve been eating lately: Gyro Aegean Grill

    Is it the largest and best gyro in town? I’m not sure. I think it’s the best the Young Adult Son and I have tried here.

  • Restaurant Review: LaBella’s Pizza

    This place is a hole in the wall with a New York accent. Literally, nearly all the workers and the people who buy their slices here have what people where I grew up in Mobile, Alabama, would snootily call “a Yankified accent.” Our first foray to this small pizza place came after a shopping trip…

  • Food truck review: Taqueria Molina

    3190 Canton Rd, Marietta I was so pleased when I first spotted a welcoming little food truck on my way home from work. The lit-up “Open” sign beckoned. The food truck mural included Mexican and American flags, announcing that within holds the possibilities of yummy, hearty Mexican fare. My heart leapt. Eventually, after another disheartening…

  • Restaurant review: Smitty’s Lockdown BBQ

    I’ve eaten food from Smitty’s Lockdown BBQ throughout the years, but have never actually stopped at the restaurant before.