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Restaurant Review - Negril Caribbean Cafe Article
Go on and stew it up Negril Caribbean Cafe dishes out delectable cold-weather eats
The scent of, um, shall we say ... burning herbs wafts through the air outside Rebel Music next door to Negril Caribbean Cafe. Wisps of smoke and a few bars of rhythmic music slip out of the Caribbean club adjacent to the record store and into the cool night air, as dreadlocked patrons enter and exit. Vagrants...
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Restaurant Review - New York Prime Article
Don’t you hate it when your skinniest friends announce they’re going on diets? They motion to their flat, trim middles and gripe, “Just 5 percent less body fat and I’ll finally be where I want!” Harrumph. I used to glare at them hostilely and lecture them about America’s warped perception of body image. Now I just lure them to fattening restaurants.
When I’m feeling particularly mischievous, I...
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Restaurant Review - La Grotta Article
A CL colleague is peering over my shoulder as I type, wondering which restaurant I’m reviewing this week. “Oh!” he replies, when I tell him La Grotta in Buckhead. “I went there for my junior prom.”
This does not surprise me. I showed up for my first visit to the restaurant in my usual business-casual garb and felt conspicuously underdressed. I was one of a handful of men not wearing a jacket....
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Restaurant Review - Sal Y Braza Article
__Churrasquerias restaurants,
with their array of barbecued meat and side dishes, are second only to the shimmying Carneval dancers in creating a perception of Brazil as the land of sensual plenty. The Brazilian outfit Fogo de Chao boasts four thriving branches in America, including one in Atlanta. Yet at over $40 per person, a night at the Porto Alegre-based chain and similar restaurants has...
Restaurant Review - Tomas’ turn Article
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Restaurant Review - Tomas Article
A luridly lit adult video store comes into view as I reach for my cell phone to ascertain the exact location of Tomas. I seem to be investigating a restaurant on Peachtree Parkway, the metro area’s most rapidly developing culinary corridor, at least once a month these days.
“Are you guys near the Love Shack?” I ask into my mobile. I hope I’m not making some good Christian soul wince at the...
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Restaurant Review - CAFFE MIDTOWN Article
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Restaurant Review - First China Article
Mist rolls across the surface in melancholy sighs. A lone figure fishes in a small boat while three men linger on a curving wooden bridge overhead, perhaps debating the mind-bending answer to an ancient koan. A paddle wheel spins, a mysterious orb whirls and the entire village seems to run solely from the kinetic energy of running water.
The evocative scene playing out atop the freestanding...
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