Beulah Burger

This was probably the best burger I’ve ever had, and I can’t really tell you why. It tasted like it was cooked on a grill that hasn’t been scraped clean for fifty years. It tasted like the product of decades of greasy, beefy buildup. It was really, really good. Maybe the exceptional quality of this [...]

Mexican Food

Oops – I meant to post this with the other Mexican stuff, but I forgot. This was our breakfast on our first day in Banamichi, Mexico. It was a roadside shack called “Pollos Nittos” that served us up some tasty hamburguesas and fried chicken. Que delicioso!

Breakfast in Buffalo Gap

After a long night of driving and then a few hours of sleep in the car, Christopher and I found ourselves at Lola’s Mexican Cafe in Buffalo Gap, TX. Lola herself fixed us up some breakfast, which consisted of beans, eggs scrambled with chorizo and veggies, a tortilla and homemade indian frybread, which was sweet [...]

BBQ in Arkansas

Four Takes in Oxford

Whole Fish (and gumbo)

Our first night in New Orleans we hit up Coop’s Place, a popular drinking hole and eatery on Decatur Street. We had the Taste Plate, which features Gumbo and Jambalaya (with sausage and rabbit), and ventured to try the special – a whole fried sheephead fish. I can’t resist ordering a whole fish when I [...]

Fat Matt’s Rib Shack

This tasted a lot more vivid than the image looks. It’s a half-rack of ribs (don’t be fooled by the “half” – it’s ginormous) from Fat Matt’s Rib Shack in Altanta, GA. We got it with a side of beans, slaw and “Brunswick Stew” (kind of like chili), and all the dishes come with a [...]

Waffleriffic

Driving around south of the Mason Dixon you start to notice that the normal pantheon of fast food chains has grown a little wider. That’s right, I’m talkin’ about Waffle House. Gwen and I have been meaning to stop at one ever since we started seeing the square yellow letters off the interstate. We finally [...]

Fried Grease

This was perhaps the most amazing lunch I’ve ever encountered. It was at a restaurant called “The Old Lighthouse”, located (near no body of water) somewhere alongside of the road leaving Charleston on the way to Tennessee. The meal consisted of fried catfish (“delta-style”), deep-fried hush puppies and freshly-fried potato chips. Each of these items [...]

Barbecue and Beer

This was a very tasty pulled pork sandwich from the Gold Dome BBQ in Charleston, WV. Their specialty is topping it with homemade slaw – I love cole slaw and have never actually put it directly on the sandwich before, so this was an interesting treat. And the beer was only $5 for a big [...]