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| This is the B-B-Beauty Chicken, Turkey, Ham, cole slaw, french fries, tomato... They also have the B-B-Beast which has more dark meats like roast beef. Loved it, especially the cole slaw. |
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| First Bite... Barely made a dent, didn't know where to start. I managed to eat about 3/4 of the whole sandwich |
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| This was called the Pastrami Burger The sauce is called Tiger sauce and it has wasabi. |
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| Absolutely the best fish and chips we've ever had. This is from The King's Head in Santa Monica, it is a pretty "famous" place since it is one of very few authentic English pubs. As you can see they serve a good portion of fish. It was perfect and flaky. Definitely got to have it English style with the vinegar. We ate outside on their patio. which was REALLY nice because the restaurant is only a couple blocks from the beach and it's a great place to do your people watching. |
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| For dinner we went to Umami Burger, which is also in Santa Monica. It is one of those buzzword/popular type places. We waited at least 30 minutes to get in, but that was expected. It is a little hard to find since it doesn't really have a sign and it is housed in a little portion of the Fred Segal boutique building. This was the Truffle Burger: House-made truffle cheese and truffle glaze. Definitely tasted the truffle. The burgers are pretty small, but very good, and soft... |
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| Tempura onion rings, cooked just right. Helped to fill us up too. |
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| Hatch Burger: 4 types of green chilies and house made american cheese. The spices went perfectly with the meat. |
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| In the morning we wanted to go some place other than the typical Starbucks for a coffee. We came across Geo's Organic Coffee and Teas, a tiny hole in the wall place in my old neighborhood in Culver City. I remember seeing this place when I lived nearby, but never stopped in. They served some good drinks and pastries, and seems to be family owned. It's in a basically all Mexican neighborhood so there were some yumm Mexican style drinks on the menu. Or you can do what we did and ask them to put some cinnamon in your mocha. |
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| On the last day we went with my whole fam to a Hawaiian restaurant in Torrance called The Loft. All the servings were pretty large. I got the Pork Lau Lau & Lomi Lomi, which is pork rolled into Taro leaves and steamed. Lomi Lomi is ceviche style salmon, tomatoes and onions with Hawaiian rock salt. Love Hawaiian food. |
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| Welcome to the Peach state! |
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| First stop, The Vortex, near little 5 points. Definitely decorated uniquely. |
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| PB and J "Elvis" Burger with fried plantains (left). Bacon, swiss, mushroom burger (right). We felt the PB should have been warmed up a little to make it more runny, plantains were awesome and different... Favored the mushroom burger. |
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| A cool bar in Little 5-points, great place to people watch! |
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| There are many bars with great beer selections, some are even harder to find beers from breweries all over the US. |
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| Next breakfast stop was at the Silver Skillet, just a short (cooooold) walk from our hotel. |
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| Inside the diner... very old-fashioned, looked like they hadn't modified it since the first opening. I liked the "home-y" atmosphere. |
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| mmm mmm the ham hocks and grits breakfast, with biscuits and red eye gravy!! |
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| Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles |
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| The fried green tomatos were actually very tasty, not too greasy, kinda felt like you were eating something a little bit healthy. |
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| Chicken, waffles, macaroni, corn bread, grits, collard greens, and black eyed peas... why not? |
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| We walked many miles (about 2 hours across town?) to Mary Mac's to try their well-known cinnamon rolls. |
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| Yumm! $5, good for the plane ride home too. |
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| Made our way out to the MLK area to Busy Bee Cafe for some real soul food! (I personally would not go there alone, ha!) |
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| I had the Ox tail, and looooved it, as well as brocolli cheese casserole and buttered okra. |
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| love, love the sweet tea! It really does go well with soul food.. |
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| We were lucky enough to have Cindy and Ernesto to join on us on many excursions and also to take us on the 30 minute drive out to Kennesaw, Georgia to Big Pie in the Sky. |
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| Largest Pizza I've ever seen and attempted to eat. This pizza was featured on Man V. Food for the "Carnivore Challenge". |
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| We did a pretty good job. I maaaay or may not have eaten the most... ceprese style was my favorite! |
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| Flip Burger Boutique. Burger with the special "airated" cheese |
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| Yep, this is a beef tar tar burger topped with soft boiled egg. |
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| Shakes: pistachio + white truffle, krispy kreme, nutella + burnt marshmellow |
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| The houses in Atlanta had so much character. |
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| Welcome to Chicago! Walking on air....103 floors high. (on the skydeck at Willis Tower) |
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| A view from one side of the tower. If you stand at a certain side of the tower you can actually see 4 states at once: Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin! |
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| Chicago Meat Lover's Deep Dish Pizza from Geno's East. |
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| There was writing in EVERY square inch of the restaurant walls. We left our signature. It was funny to see some couples' names crossed out and then seeing one of the same names written right next to it with a new significant other... |
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| The Bean in Millenium Park. It may not be food, but it was pretty awesome. |
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| I thought this guy was selling food or something, or maybe drinks on a hot day, but he was actually performing a little puppet show from the box window. |
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| A group of 106 headless and armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park. |
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| Beef dip from Al's Italian Beef. We ordered it "Sweet and Spicy, Double Dipped" style which has: the beef, sweet pepper and hot pepper (giardiniera), and then it is dipped not once, but twice in the au jus. We ate this at least twice on our trip... I wanted to have it every day. |
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| Pork loin wrapped in bacon And bone marrow. The bone marrow was actually pretty good.. |
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| Slider burgers and my favorite Gruyere mac n' cheese |
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| Sliders, mini pickles, and garlic fries |
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| The view...get to watch planes land. |
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| I ordered Paella, my favorite dish at Mr. A's. |
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| Grimaldi's Pizza in Brooklyn. One of the rivalry pizza places in New York. I got to meet the owner, Grimaldi, himself. The line was fairly long, stretched a while down the side walk, but worth the wait! |
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| The atmostphere was cool, like you're eating at someone's home, only bad part was that the tables were really close together you could barely squeeze in. |
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| Sausage and Mushroom pizza. Super good. |
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| French Toast from Noho Star. |
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| Pizza from Lombardi's on Spring Street. One of the best pizzas we've ever had! It tasted so fresh. |
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| Pizza from Famiglias, a chain around New York. They had a bunch of pizza by the slice topping choices for a pretty cheap price. This ones my favorite, tomato, basil, mozarella with olive oil. |
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| Greenwich Village. I consider that one of the coolest areas in Manhattan. |
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| I love the culture, the atmosphere...you will always see someone sitting on a bench playing jazz music. |
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| Puerto Rican imported coffee beans from a small store in Greenwhich Village. On the corner of Bleeker street. |
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| Went to the Bronx to check out the newly built Yankee Stadium and came across a family selling mango con chile. |
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| Elvis PB and J sandwich from Peanut Butter Co. near NYU. They serve their food "lunch box style," you get a sandwich with your choice of carrots, chips, etc. for your side....And a box of milk. The elvis had bacon and bananas and honey. We also tried one that had pineapple jam with a spicy peanut butter, called Thai... something.... it was surprisingly really good. |
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| We made our way over to Brooklyn to Peter Luger's. Supposedly one of the top steak restaurants in the country. |
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| We ordered a dinner for two: A huge, 32 oz, T-Bone steak, a side of their special creamed spinach, and potatoes. |
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| The waiter serves all the dishes for us. I guess that's old traditional style. He even sliced the meat for us so it is cut "correctly." |
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| Allllllll Done. The softest, most buttery, best steak ever, in both of our lives. |
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| One of the areas around Peter Lugar's, Borough Park, is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel. We walked around for an hour or so just to see the whole community. |
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| Just a billboard in Boro Park. |
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| We had our New York style Cheesecake from a little gelato place in Little Italy. |
