Blog Topic: Foodie Fun

Grub Notes: Holy Crepe Food Truck Opening in April

By Hillary Brown | March 5, 2014 11:02am

This is what a crepe looks like.

Saphir Grici is still pretty new to Athens, and he moved here not for career reasons or school but for love, having met his now wife (an Athenian) during her studies in Paris. Now, inspired by a visit to Los Angeles, he's starting his own business: a food truck called Holy Crepe.

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Grub Notes: Noodle Bowl is This Saturday

By Hillary Brown | February 24, 2014 11:22am

Sun Taro via Wikimedia Commons

Do you regularly make the drive out to Umaido in Suwanee just to get a bowl o' ramen? Do you wait all week just to see if Pulaski Heights BBQ is doing ramen on special? Did the news of Five & Ten's Tuesday-night ramen pop-up fill you with joy? Oh, and also, shouldn't you be contributing more to charity?

Even if the answers to all of those questions aren't "yes," you should for sure invest your $35 for a ticket to this Saturday's Ramen Bowl at Ciné, organized by André Gallant of the Athens Banner-Herald and benefiting United Way.

More after the jump.

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Grub Notes: Watch An Incredible Tlaloc Commercial Starring Local Band DIP

By Gabe Vodicka | January 22, 2014 12:47pm

Here's a little something to ease your mid-week malaise: an incredible new commercial for local Mexican restaurant Tlaloc, featuring freak-pop band DIP.

Really, the ad makes a weird sort of sense, given the group's name and propensity for all things dip-related (queso, anyone?). It also plays up the fact that Tlaloc, formerly beer-and-wine-only, is now serving margaritas, and ends with the restaurant's madcap catchphrase: "Let's get drunk!"

Watch after the jump.

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In the Loop: Peaches Has Been Torn Down

By Blake Aued | January 21, 2014 2:05pm

Photo Credit: Kristen Bach

The former soul food restaurant Peaches' building on West Broad Street was torn down today to make way for Saucehouse, a barbecue joint. Peaches owner Glenda Brown, meanwhile, is re-opening the restaurant in the former The Camp in Homewood Hills, where she had been cooking since closing on Broad.

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Grub Notes: Terrapin's New Beers for 2014

By Blake Aued | January 20, 2014 3:43pm

The hophead herpetologists at Terrapin have a busy year ahead of them. The Athens brewery recently announced additions its 2014 lineup:

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Grub Notes: Weaver D's Not Closing After All

By Hillary Brown | December 2, 2013 10:00pm

Psych! The on-again-off-again saga of Weaver D's is entering an "on-again" phase, according toDexter Weaver's Facebook page, which reads:

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Grub Notes: Hugh Acheson Signing Books at Avid Tonight

By Hillary Brown | November 22, 2013 11:33am

Surely, if you yourself don't like to cook, you at least know someone who does. I have found Hugh Acheson's A New Turn in the South to be among my favorite cookbooks, not so much because of its lovely photography (courtesy of Rinne Allen) and committed localism, but because of its clear, direct recipes that, if followed, result in deliciousness.

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Grub Notes: Turkey Day Options in Athens (for Pick-Up or Eat-In)

By Hillary Brown | November 20, 2013 2:35pm

We all have different skills in this life, and cooking is not among them for everyone. If you are looking to have someone else shoulder the burden of Thanksgiving, there are some options for you after the jump. We'll update this list as we hear more, so keep checking back.

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Grub Notes: Cheese Shop to Open in Elberton

By Hillary Brown | November 12, 2013 4:52pm

Nature's Harmony Farm (brought to you by Tim and Liz Young), in Elberton, has been producing quality cheeses for a while now, and you can sample the results at The National, the Branded Butcher and Heirloom Café, as well as purchase them from Earth Fare and the Murray’s counter at the Alps Kroger.

Now you can also buy the stuff from the farm's new venture, Artisanal Provisions, a store that opens this Saturday (Nov. 16) and will be open in the future on Saturdays from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

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Grub Notes: Vegan Cookbook Author Isa Chandra Moskowitz at Avid Next Sunday

By Hillary Brown | November 4, 2013 11:16am

Avid Bookshop continues to do a great job focusing on special events, and it has emphasized food-related ones since the beginning. The bookstore's next in the category features Isa Chandra Moskowitz, host of "Post Punk Kitchen" and author of Veganomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance and, most recently Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week, which she'll be signing Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m. (in Fire Hall No. 2, next door to Avid).

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