October 4, 2022 • 33 mins
I’ve been an Atlanta resident for over 20 years and one of the many things I love about my home city is THE FOOD. Listen in to this episode to hear some of my favorite ATL eats!
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey, everybody, Welcome back to a new episode of Her
with Amina Brown. And I want to talk about food today.
Y'all know that I love talking about favorite things, and
so this episode is going to be about my favorite
a t L eat. So for people who are planning
a trip to Atlanta, these are the things things I
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would tell you. I cannot tell y'all how many people
I meet and they don't know me. We don't. We
just meeting each other. Sometimes it's from work or whatever,
and they're always like, oh, yeah, I'm getting ready to
go to Atlanta or I'd love to come to Atlanta.
And I always tell them, if you need food recommendations,
I got you. I might not be able to tell
you all of the other tourist things to do in
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our city, but if you have need of eating recommendations,
I got you. So that's what this episode is for.
So that way, if you have some friends that are like,
oh my gosh, I'm coming to Atlanta, you can be like,
don't forget to go listen to this episode. I have
lived in Atlanta since so what is that twenty four
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years this year? Wow? And we're actually exactly at twenty
four years because I am pretty sure I was moving
into the dorm at Spellman College around this time of
year in n So I have lived here all of
my adult life without moving, and that's always kind of
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interesting for a person that moved a lot growing up.
You know. It is so wild to me that I
actually have lived someplace for twenty four years when I
think the longest I'd lived anywhere growing up was maybe
six years. I think San Antonio, Texas, which is why
I claimed that as my hometown, because I lived there
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the longest of all my years, you know, growing up.
But now Atlanta's home. I'm not a Georgia peach. I
think Georgia peaches are those who were born and raised
in Georgia. So I'm trying to campaign for being able
to call myself a Georgia nectarine or maybe a Georgia plumb,
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because I'm not sure if nectarines are even like a
fruit that grows here in Georgia. So let's talk about
some favorite eats. Number one favorite soul food restaurant from me,
hands down, is the Busy Bee Cafe. And let me
tell you what is kind of sad about this. I
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did not discover busy Bees until after I graduated from
college even though Busy Bees was right there, almost sitting
on the campus of Clark Atlanta. And if you're not
familiar with this part of Atlanta, uh, there is the
Atlanta University Center, which includes Clark Atlanta, Spellman College, more
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House College, the Interdenominational Theological Center, more House School of Medicine,
and now again includes Morris Brown College. Morris Brown was
kind of out of commission dealing with some financial issues
and accreditation issues, but as of this recording, UM Morris
Brown is back up and running. So now the Atlanta
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University Center or the you See as we called it is,
is pretty much back to what it was like when
I moved here in night. So you could really be
walking on carc Atlanta's campus and you could probably like
throw a rock and hit Busy Bees. Like busy Bees
is almost on Clark Atlanta's campus, and I never went
there my whole time of college. Wow. Wow. Currently, due
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to the pandemic, you cannot actually go and sit down
in busy Bees. All of the orders are to go,
which if you're in town, it is still worth ordering
this for delivery. It is still worth going there to
pick it up. However, there was something really special about
being inside of Busy Bees. Busy Bees is as I
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heard all of the Southern women I grew up around
would say, busy Bees is this big? Did y'all did
y'all grow up around black women like that? That? That's
how they would describe the size of something by the
snap of a finger. Love to see it. So Busy
Bees is a small little place, you know, it's it
only has several tables in it. Maybe it is not
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one of the larger sort of southern or soul food
restaurants that we have in Atlanta. Before me, it is
still the best and most consistent. The macaroni and cheese,
the fried chicken. I pretty much stay in that zone.
I'm macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, collared greens, yeast roll,
the peach cobbler. That's pretty much the zone I stay in.
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If I step out of that, maybe I'm BlackBerry cobbler,
maybe I'm turnip greens. But nine times out of ten,
I am still fried chicken. Every now and then I
will get the fried catfish, but I typically I'm only
getting that if we also did an order of the
fried chicken. What I loved about going to Busy Bees
in person was when you would get there, it would
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have like a hostess sign, but the hostess was also
like behind the bar, like multi tasking, So the hostess
would be behind the bar like taking orders and and
also greeting people and pulling together to go orders. And
it was such a wonderful place to go and be
in person, because you know, after I started going there
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after college, I think, honestly, what made me start going
there is that fried chicken is like my husband's love language.
So I want to say he had a birthday or
something like early on in our marriage, and I was like,
I need to find out who makes the best fried chicken.
And I can't remember if I took him there, if
I went there and got food, I honestly can't remember, y'all.
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And I was like when I actually drove up to
the place and realized where I was and thought to myself,
oh my gosh, I have a way too so late
to discover this. So I remember walking into the restaurant,
the hostess, who is doing three or four other things,
She's like, hey, baby, how are you doing. You're looking
for a seat. You're looking to have a seat, honey,
And I told her yes, And however, many people you know,
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were with me, and she was, okay, baby, going head
to have a seat. We're gonna get your seat in
just a little while, okay. And then I remember two
gentlemen walked in after me who looked like they were
probably you know, around college age. They smell of weed. Okay,
and I think they're regulars. So she looks at them
and she says, oh, baby, ill wanted to go on
a hull. They were like, you know, yes, that's what
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we want to. Like, okay, baby, go ahead, let me
know what you want to or to go ahead and
let me know. It was just such a wonderful way
that she is just gathering everyone together so quickly. Yes. Then,
as many of you know, I had a long period
of time in my career that I worked in white
evangelical uh sort of Christian market innocence, the organizations and
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businesses that we're doing events, that we're doing video work.
You know, I did a lot of that work for
a long time, and I realized after a while, you know,
sometimes people would come into the city because we were
doing video shoots, or sometimes it would come into the
city and they'd want to you know, have a meeting
or meet up with me for for a meal, and
busy Bees would always be my go to because if
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you can't handle being inside busy Bees in the West End,
being in this beautifully all black environment, then you don't
need to work with me. So there were countless times
that I would invite all sorts of people from those
of you that are familiar with Christian organizations. If I
said some of those names, you'd be like, you invited
them to busy Bees, And yes I did. And there
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are a couple of times that I was unintentionally late.
I didn't mean to be late, but I was, and
so here I had left, you know, these white folks
sitting in busy Bees, and depending on how comfortable or
uncomfortable they looked when I got there, you know, showed
me like, what are the vibes about to be if
we are going to be working together on something. So
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I do miss busy Bees being open and being able
to be someplace you can go and eat in person.
And I hope that we eventually we are able to
get back to that. But for now, if you're in town,
is that fried chicken worth you getting a delivery? Absolutely? Yes,
it is worth that. What would be my plan B
if I could not go to Busy Bees? I feel
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like my plan B is Kevin Gillespie's restaurant Revival, which
only is open. I think it's only open either Thursday
through Saturday or Thursday through Sunday. Um, but that restaurant
is an indicator, and that's a pretty solid fried chicken order.
It is not soul food, but it's pretty solid Southern food.
That would probably be my other replacement. And my other
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one that was really my top replacement was Ford Fries
Restaurant in j C. T Kitchen, but r I p
because that restaurant is closed down now, so it's really
Busy Bees for me. And if you can't get Busy Bees,
you can give Revival a try. All Right, favorite donuts, y'all.
It's a lot of good donuts to be had in Atlanta,
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but my favorite. You know, when I was growing up,
if you had a church that you grew up in
or your church that you went to was considered to
be your home church, right, So then if you moved,
you could decide were you feeling like you were going
to be at home enough in your new city or
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whatever that you were gonna get a new home church
or where you like, I don't really rock with my
new city like that. I'm gonna remain a member of
my home church. You know, you're gonna send your offerings
or whatever back there. You know, once streaming and different
things came into play, you're gonna listen to the sermons
and stuff like that, you know. And so I I'm
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bringing this principle of home church over into home donut place.
And Revolution Donuts is my home donut place. I don't
care where I travel, I don't care what other donuts
they make out there, and there's a lot of wonderful
donuts to be had. Um shout out to my sister
in law and our pop up podcast here for the donuts.
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We haven't recorded in a while, but if you never
heard me say that we had that podcast, the episodes
are out there for you to listen to our Shenanigans.
And so we've had a lot of time to travel
even and go to different donut spots, and I still
just Revolution Donuts is still my home donut place. And
I'm gonna tell you all how I discovered Revolution Donuts.
I went through a period of time where I was
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having a lot of health issues, and particularly very hormonal issues, right.
And so typically many of you that may have had
issues with your hormones as well, or having hormonal imbalance
and things like that, typically, um, somebody's gonna start talking
to you about your diet because we do eat foods
that also may cause reaction in our hormones, right. And
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so one of the recommendations I was given during that
time was to go dairy free, which just felt like
what is life if I'm gonna go dairy free? Yikes?
But I was like, I gotta do this, I gotta
try and feel better. So I went. I went a
year cold turkey, no dairy, but I craved donuts so bad,
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you know, and the only donuts I really knew was
crispy cream and Dunkin Donuts, you know, that was it.
So I was just like, how am I going to
solve this? And I had learned to cook a lot
of things myself, because there were quite a few things
that I had to stop eating at that time. So
there were some things that I just had to learn
how to make myself because I was never going to
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find a restaurant that was going to know how to
make a version of whatever that was without all of
the things that I couldn't eat because of my dietary restrictions.
So I just decided on a whim to google vegan donuts,
and I figured either a place is going to come
up or a recipe, and Revolution Donuts came up, because
I think at that time they had just opened, probably
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within the last year or so from when I had
had to change my diet, and so I went over
there and just really got my life together. I remember
the first donut that I one of the first donuts
I had there that really amazed me. They made a
vegan Crime Brewley donut. So it was yeast donut fried
as yeast donuts are, but filled with vegan like crime
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brew Let custard, and then it had like the candy
part of the crime brulet over the top of the donut.
I mean, it was amazing. It was amazing. So that's
still in my home donut place. Like I have some
meetings that if I'm the one that needs to bring
food or snacks or whatever, it is gonna be donuts
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from me, and it is specifically gonna be Revolution Donuts.
So if you are a dairy free person, if you're vegan,
I really recommend Revolution Donuts. They don't just have vegan donuts,
but I would say a large portion of the in
you is vegan or dairy free. And for my folks
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who are gluten free or have gluten sensitivity, they do
have a couple of donuts that they typically I think
they're not typically gluten free, but they make some that
are low gluten if you are able to tolerate that
type of thing. And then they have some donuts that
have all the cheese or all the dairy, all the meat,
you know. One of my favorite donuts they have is
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called the Crunchy Mister, which I think is based on
a French sandwich. The I'm sure I'm going to mispronounce it,
so I'm I'm not going to say it, but I
think there's a French sandwich that it's based on, and
it's sort of like, uh, I think the French sandwich
is sort of this like classed up version of a
ham and cheese, right, and so it's a savory donut
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that has ham and best chamel. Oh it is. It
is if you have dietary restrictions and you're able to
have times where you don't have to always be on
your restrictions. That one is one that I will take
for the team because it is that deliciou So I
recommend Revolution Donuts. They have two locations, one Indicator and
one in I think what would be considered like Edgewood
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or m Edmond Park area. Love it. It's delicious and
the coffee is great. For those of you who are
are coffee folks too. Um, you know you hate when
you go to a pastry place and you're suffering through
kind of bad coffee. The coffee is great, the donuts
are great. I recommend if you are in town in
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Atlanta over a weekend, I do recommend Beetle Cat Restaurants
Donut Brunch. They're donuts quiet as it's kept. Are very
high on my like probably Revolutions and and Beetle Cats.
Donut Brunch. Donuts are like in my top two donut
places to try in Atlanta, But you can only get
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donut brunch on the weekends Saturday morning and that kind
of brunch into early afternoon time and Sunday at the
same time. Right. What I love about both donut places though,
is that they tend to have some of their doughnuts
that they just have all year, and then they have
certain donuts that come in and out of the menu
based on what seasonal which I really love that type
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of stuff, so big shout out to Beetle cats doughnut
brunch very delicious, and also Beetle Cat has a signature
donut brunch sandwich that's basically like in the South, there
is a high value placed upon a fried chicken breakfast sandwich.
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If you live in the South, you will see many
iterations of this. You visit the South, visit different places
in the South, you will see many different iterations of this.
Sometimes it's a biscuit with the fried chicken in between
the biscuits. Sometimes it has an egg on it, sometimes
it has gravy. I mean, there's all sorts of things
that are bay stupon this idea that this is the
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best thing you could have for breakfast, which is either
a fried chicken breast or a fried chicken thigh in
between two pieces of some kind of bread. Now here's
where they do this, that donut brunch. Instead of having
biscuits or toast or whatever, there are two vanilla glazed
donuts in place of where the biscuit would be. There's
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the fried chicken, and I think it depends on you know,
when you go. Sometimes the version has been different. The
last version that I had also had an egg on
top that you could you could order the egg where
the egg was going to be kind of running down
the side, and then they also have like a hot
sauce that you can pour on top of it. It.
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It's enough food that probably two or three people could
share it, honestly, but it's one of their signature dishes
that I highly wrecka mend favorite Donuts Revolution and Beetle
Cat's doughnut Brunch. Let's talk about sandwiches. I really and
truly could probably have an entire separate episode regarding sandwiches
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because I'm a person who really loves sandwiches. Like I
just think sandwiches are the best thing. My My best
combination is to have a sandwich with chips and a coke.
Just it really these days, sometimes I'm not coke. I'm
I'm doing like sparkling water and you know, trying to
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you know, decrease my caffeine and my sugar. You know,
things you start having to think about when you get
to be in your forties. But maybe should have thought
about when you were in your thirties. Anyways, So I
just love a good sandwich. Okay, So I have a
thousand sandwiches I could talk to you about. I was
actually just telling a friend recently that I feel like,
if I was going to have a last meal, it's
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a sandwich. Like I would be like, get me that
such and such sandwich. Okay, So I'm gonna tell you
my favorite Italian sandwich. Now, this was my my gateway
entry into the you know, sort of typical I don't know,
I don't I don't know if I should say typical,
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but sort of like you're yeah, I would probably say
your typical Italian sandwich that would have these sort of
layers of Italian deli meat, would typically have like a provolone,
some type of peppers, oil, herb, vinegarrette type of situation
on almost like a hogi kind of bread. Now that
I've said hogies, those of you that have been listening
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to the podcast to know, anytime I've had someone on
here who lives in Philly, I'm always talking about hogs, Like, Okay,
I'm just gonna come back to that later because I
have a lot of emotional feelings about hogs. There are
not hogs in Atlanta. I almost I am wondering now
if I'm into Italian sandwiches, because that's the closest I
get in the South to what a HOGI is like
in Philly. If you live in Philly and you're listening
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to this, go have a hogie today for me, Okay,
because they're amazing. All right, I'm good emotional, Okay. So
I went to Fred's Meet and Bread, which is a
fantastic sandwich stall in one of Atlanta's food halls. And
those of you that I may live in major cities
around the country know that food halls are becoming really popular, uh,
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in different cities. I know, Matt and I have been
to a few of them in different places. And so
one of ours in Atlanta is Croc Street Market Croc
Street Market, which is a smaller food hall, because our
larger food hall is Pont City Market, where there are
even more restaurants and dessert, coffee places, etcetera. But Fred's
Meet and Bread is at Croc Street Market, Croc Street Market.
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Why don't I want to add an art to that?
Y'all is at crocs Street Market and Friends and Meeting Bread. No, lie,
just has a lot of fantastic sandwiches there. Cheese steak
is fantastic. They have a steak cheese steak with mushrooms.
They have sort of your regular, uh, your regular kind
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of beef cheese steak. They have chicken cheese steak. They
have a Korean beef cheese steak. They have a double
stack burger. I want to say, that's really delicious. I really,
for the most part, have not met a sandwich at
Freend's meeting bread that I didn't like. But the one
that really made me fall in love with Fread's Meat
and Bread was their Italian grinder sandwich. And let me
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tell you something, I have a great appreciation for presciutto.
Presciutto just you know, it's one of those things that
it's like, is it really ever the wrong thing? You know,
It's like, you put it on a salad, it's delicious.
You have an charcotari board, it's delicious. You put it
on a sandwich, you know what, it is delicious. So
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the Italian grinder at Fred's Meat and Bread just has
a lot of layers of a lot of different types
of those sort of traditional Italian deli meats. The presciutto
the salami. You know, I mean all of the things
that you want to have. This sandwich has delicious. My
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favorite Italian sandwich is all is really down like two
stalls away from Fred's Mean and Bread, and they're really
like very very close to each other in the running.
But I have to say my favorite Italian sandwich is
the Good Fella, which is at Varoni Napole's, and Varoni
napole is more so to me, like more of a
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pizza place. They actually have two locations and the Crag
Street location is the only location that makes these sandwiches,
and it is similar to the Italian grinder, but done
you know, differently in Varoni napole style. I think what's
giving it the edge for me is the bread. The
bread is tasting very fresh baked. You're getting a little
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bit of that taste of like what you like about
a pizza dough or the cow zone dough. You get
a bit of that taste in the sandwich bread, which
is wonderful. My only small gripe with Rooney Napoli is
that I wish they sold chips, because I told you,
I just love the crunch of some chips with a sandwich,
but that that good Fellow sandwich. Yes, favorite Italian sandwich.
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So if you're visiting Atlanta or if you've just moved
to Atlanta and you're looking for cool places to go,
Croc Street Market is always a win. It's a great
place to go by yourself and just hang out, try
some things. It's a wonderful place to go if you
have people visiting in town that you want to like
take them somewhere, but then everybody can kind of split
up and go eat whatever food they like. I mean,
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there's so many food choices in Croc Street. You have
the belt Line right there, which for us here in Atlanta,
the belt Line is really like a long walking trail
that I think was built on what used to be
railroad tracks, but now there are these certain areas in
the city where you can kind of go and walk,
and there's restaurants along the belt line as well. So
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Croc Street Market is right by all of that area.
So it just gives you a lot of stuff to do.
I do recommend that. But if you're going to go
in there, I mean going to get one of these sandwiches,
is is the right thing to do. It's the right
thing to do. Okay, favorite bakery in the city is
Southern Sweets for me, which is I want to say,
maybe Indicator or if it's not quite Decatur, it's near
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Avondale Estate. Southern Sweets is a fantastic bakery for a
lot of birthdays of different members of our family. Because
of my husband and I both have quite a bit
of family in the Atlanta area. We will go to
Southern Sweets and get cake by the slice. So that way, say,
if it's one person's birthday and that person's cake favorite
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is this, but then the other three or four people
like this other different cake, you can go there and
get cake for maybe six or seven bucks a slice.
And they do also have vegan selections of some of
their desserts. They have cake and pie as well, and
and cheesecake also, so you have that element of sort
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of your your traditional kind of conventional three layer cake
as well as having your cheesecakes, your mouse cakes, your
key lime pie, and lemon meringue. And as a side note,
they also have some pretty solid sandwiches. Like sandwiches are
gonna keep coming up here, they have some pretty solid sandwiches.
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Another sandwich that I'm really in love with is. I
love a good b LT. It's just something about the
b LT that's so. It's such a simple sandwich. I
mean it's literally slices of bacon, sliced tomato, typically some iceberg, lettuce,
and mayo. That's it. Toasted bread, that's all, and it's amazing.
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So typically, if I'm going to Southern Sweets or if
my husband is going to Southern Sweets to pick up
something for me, if there's a chance I can get
there BLT and a slice of cake, I will do it.
But I love their cake and I love all the
varieties of cake that they have that you can go
there and try a bunch of different things and sort
of get cake according to your mood. And of course
if you are having a party, or maybe you don't
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have to have a party and you just want a
whole cake, they do have that as well, or a
whole pie. You can order those in advance. And I
think they do wedding cakes all the things. Favorite bakery
in the Atlanta metro area for me is Southern Sweets.
I do want to give honorable mention regarding cupcakes because
I am also a cupcake connoisseur and cupcakes in Atlanta
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for me have been a little touch and go. We
had too larger like national cupcake chains here for a while.
I think we still have Georgetown cupcakes. And then we
had Sprinkles Cupcakes, which I think was an original um
chain that was out of l A. And when Sprinkles here,
Sprinkles was my favorite cupcake. We actually had a Sprinkles
a t M Atlantox Mall when Sprinkles was here, and
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then Sprinkles closed and I was kind of, you know,
feeling disappointed, because sometimes you want to get involved in
more of a more of a cupcake scenario than you
do a slice of cake. Right. So my favorite cupcake
place is Indulged Bakery, which is actually not too far
from my neighborhood and has a little tea place inside
of it. I'm not sure that Indulged is welcoming people
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to be sitting inside, but they also have a drive through.
Who doesn't love a cupcake drive through? So I recommend
that as a cupcake place. I love their cupcakes. Their
cupcakes are so wonderful, and I love the different combination
of combinations of flavors. And I'll tell you my absolute
favorite cupcake flavor is when the cake itself is chocolate,
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but the frosting is vanilla. And that's a rare combination
in most bakeries, even for slices of cake right or
a three layer cake, you would typically not have where
the the cake itself is like Devil's food and then
the icing is vanilla. But that's actually like my favorite
way to have a cupcake, So big shout out to
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Indulge Cupcake for having a cookies and cream cupcake, which
is sort of the closest I can get to what
my favorite cupcake flavor is. Shout out to that. Also,
let me tell you all a small cupcake story. I
remember before my husband I got married, when I was
single and I had my first apartment. Sometimes to celebrate myself,
or sometimes if I just had a bad week, I
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would go to the grocery store and I would buy
the like what looked like the happy birthday cupcakes, you
know how they came, and like a thing of six.
I would buy them and just bring them home to
my house and enjoy them and celebrate myself or celebrate
that whatever was terrible that it happened was over with.
So you treat yourself in whatever ways are good for you, okay,
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And if that means you need to go up in
the grocery store and get you a six thing of cupcakes.
I was also known for buying a whole pie, eating
some of it, freezing it up by the slice so
that I might put the slice in the micro wave
later and bloom, there I am. If I've got vanilla
ice cream, I'm already right there with one of my
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favorite desserts. Just giving you some hacks, you know, in
case you need more lower budget items that you can
treat yourself to. I'm out here, people, I'm out here
giving you the things, okay. Last favorite thing is wings.
And wings are very important in the South. Like when
we were going through the time where they're like, we're
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having a wing shortage, a lot of gasps out here
in Atlanta, a lot of shortage of wings. And then
they were trying to sell us that like chicken thighs
could be the same and bone listen, wings, I don't know.
I don't know anything about that, but wings are very
important here in Atlanta, in particular, lemon pepper wings are
very important here. Just having wing places that have a
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variety of flavors very important. Here. So, my favorite wing spot,
the one that my husband and I go to most
often is the Wing Bar. And I think the Wing
Bar has at least two locations, and they have so
many flavors of wing and then depending on your order,
you can sometimes get your order split if you wanted
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like two different flavors, like sometimes I like to have
lemon pepper and barbecue. But really, barbecue sauce is really
where it's at for me, y'all, Like when the old
lady was on the commercial saying I put that ship
on everything, Like for me, that's barbecue sauce for me, Like,
I'm gonna find a way to put that on my
French fries. I want it on my sandwich. You know.
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I just love barbecue sauce as a condiment. Okay, So
my favorite flavor of wing is probably barbecue sauce. And
I really love the barbecue sauce at the Wing Bar.
I love a crinkle fry. They have wonderful crinkle fries.
You can get the crinkle fries seasoned, not so you can,
I think you can get them sauced and seasoned right,
so you could get the fries like with old Bay
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seasoning or with more of like a lowry seasoning or
with lemon pep or seasoning right. Or you can get
the fries sauced, but you can choose the same sauces
that are available for wings. So I love a good
I love a good seasoning fry. I just love a
good choice there. And that's also a meal for me.
That always feels like a soda is where it's at,
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And really it just always feels like a coke, you know.
I try a sprite, I try a Fanta or sun
Kissed or whatever, but the coke just really sparkling water
can get you in there a little bit because you're
at least getting the bubbles. But something about coke I
don't know, y'all. I don't know. Wings. Coke fries just
always seems like the right thing. This is not one
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of those wing places where you are getting crew to
te on the side. So if crewe tote is a
thing you're concerned with, you should cut up your your
celery and carrots before you do this thing. Okay, those
are my favorite A t L eats. I love my city,
as many of you know this, which is why I
have lived here so long and loved call at home
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but I love our food scene here. I love how
it's always changing and thriving. There's always new stuff to
check out. So if you live in Atlanta and you're
listening to this episode and you have stuff that you
think I should add to this, please dm me on
Instagram or Twitter and let me know or tweet at
me and let me know. Would love to hear your recommendations.
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And if you're visiting the city, check out these things
and right back to me. Let me know if things
were equally delicious to you. Thanks so much for listening.
I'll see you all next week. Heard with Amina Brown
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Hey, everybody, Welcome back to a new episode of Her
with Amina Brown. And I want to talk about food today.
Y'all know that I love talking about favorite things, and
so this episode is going to be about my favorite
a t L eat. So for people who are planning
a trip to Atlanta, these are the things things I
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would tell you. I cannot tell y'all how many people
I meet and they don't know me. We don't. We
just meeting each other. Sometimes it's from work or whatever,
and they're always like, oh, yeah, I'm getting ready to
go to Atlanta or I'd love to come to Atlanta.
And I always tell them, if you need food recommendations,
I got you. I might not be able to tell
you all of the other tourist things to do in
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our city, but if you have need of eating recommendations,
I got you. So that's what this episode is for.
So that way, if you have some friends that are like,
oh my gosh, I'm coming to Atlanta, you can be like,
don't forget to go listen to this episode. I have
lived in Atlanta since so what is that twenty four
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years this year? Wow? And we're actually exactly at twenty
four years because I am pretty sure I was moving
into the dorm at Spellman College around this time of
year in n So I have lived here all of
my adult life without moving, and that's always kind of
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interesting for a person that moved a lot growing up.
You know. It is so wild to me that I
actually have lived someplace for twenty four years when I
think the longest I'd lived anywhere growing up was maybe
six years. I think San Antonio, Texas, which is why
I claimed that as my hometown, because I lived there
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the longest of all my years, you know, growing up.
But now Atlanta's home. I'm not a Georgia peach. I
think Georgia peaches are those who were born and raised
in Georgia. So I'm trying to campaign for being able
to call myself a Georgia nectarine or maybe a Georgia plumb,
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because I'm not sure if nectarines are even like a
fruit that grows here in Georgia. So let's talk about
some favorite eats. Number one favorite soul food restaurant from me,
hands down, is the Busy Bee Cafe. And let me
tell you what is kind of sad about this. I
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did not discover busy Bees until after I graduated from
college even though Busy Bees was right there, almost sitting
on the campus of Clark Atlanta. And if you're not
familiar with this part of Atlanta, uh, there is the
Atlanta University Center, which includes Clark Atlanta, Spellman College, more
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House College, the Interdenominational Theological Center, more House School of Medicine,
and now again includes Morris Brown College. Morris Brown was
kind of out of commission dealing with some financial issues
and accreditation issues, but as of this recording, UM Morris
Brown is back up and running. So now the Atlanta
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University Center or the you See as we called it is,
is pretty much back to what it was like when
I moved here in night. So you could really be
walking on carc Atlanta's campus and you could probably like
throw a rock and hit Busy Bees. Like busy Bees
is almost on Clark Atlanta's campus, and I never went
there my whole time of college. Wow. Wow. Currently, due
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to the pandemic, you cannot actually go and sit down
in busy Bees. All of the orders are to go,
which if you're in town, it is still worth ordering
this for delivery. It is still worth going there to
pick it up. However, there was something really special about
being inside of Busy Bees. Busy Bees is as I
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heard all of the Southern women I grew up around
would say, busy Bees is this big? Did y'all did
y'all grow up around black women like that? That? That's
how they would describe the size of something by the
snap of a finger. Love to see it. So Busy
Bees is a small little place, you know, it's it
only has several tables in it. Maybe it is not
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one of the larger sort of southern or soul food
restaurants that we have in Atlanta. Before me, it is
still the best and most consistent. The macaroni and cheese,
the fried chicken. I pretty much stay in that zone.
I'm macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, collared greens, yeast roll,
the peach cobbler. That's pretty much the zone I stay in.
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If I step out of that, maybe I'm BlackBerry cobbler,
maybe I'm turnip greens. But nine times out of ten,
I am still fried chicken. Every now and then I
will get the fried catfish, but I typically I'm only
getting that if we also did an order of the
fried chicken. What I loved about going to Busy Bees
in person was when you would get there, it would
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have like a hostess sign, but the hostess was also
like behind the bar, like multi tasking, So the hostess
would be behind the bar like taking orders and and
also greeting people and pulling together to go orders. And
it was such a wonderful place to go and be
in person, because you know, after I started going there
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after college, I think, honestly, what made me start going
there is that fried chicken is like my husband's love language.
So I want to say he had a birthday or
something like early on in our marriage, and I was like,
I need to find out who makes the best fried chicken.
And I can't remember if I took him there, if
I went there and got food, I honestly can't remember, y'all.
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And I was like when I actually drove up to
the place and realized where I was and thought to myself,
oh my gosh, I have a way too so late
to discover this. So I remember walking into the restaurant,
the hostess, who is doing three or four other things,
She's like, hey, baby, how are you doing. You're looking
for a seat. You're looking to have a seat, honey,
And I told her yes, And however, many people you know,
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were with me, and she was, okay, baby, going head
to have a seat. We're gonna get your seat in
just a little while, okay. And then I remember two
gentlemen walked in after me who looked like they were
probably you know, around college age. They smell of weed. Okay,
and I think they're regulars. So she looks at them
and she says, oh, baby, ill wanted to go on
a hull. They were like, you know, yes, that's what
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we want to. Like, okay, baby, go ahead, let me
know what you want to or to go ahead and
let me know. It was just such a wonderful way
that she is just gathering everyone together so quickly. Yes. Then,
as many of you know, I had a long period
of time in my career that I worked in white
evangelical uh sort of Christian market innocence, the organizations and
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businesses that we're doing events, that we're doing video work.
You know, I did a lot of that work for
a long time, and I realized after a while, you know,
sometimes people would come into the city because we were
doing video shoots, or sometimes it would come into the
city and they'd want to you know, have a meeting
or meet up with me for for a meal, and
busy Bees would always be my go to because if
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you can't handle being inside busy Bees in the West End,
being in this beautifully all black environment, then you don't
need to work with me. So there were countless times
that I would invite all sorts of people from those
of you that are familiar with Christian organizations. If I
said some of those names, you'd be like, you invited
them to busy Bees, And yes I did. And there
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are a couple of times that I was unintentionally late.
I didn't mean to be late, but I was, and
so here I had left, you know, these white folks
sitting in busy Bees, and depending on how comfortable or
uncomfortable they looked when I got there, you know, showed
me like, what are the vibes about to be if
we are going to be working together on something. So
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I do miss busy Bees being open and being able
to be someplace you can go and eat in person.
And I hope that we eventually we are able to
get back to that. But for now, if you're in town,
is that fried chicken worth you getting a delivery? Absolutely? Yes,
it is worth that. What would be my plan B
if I could not go to Busy Bees? I feel
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like my plan B is Kevin Gillespie's restaurant Revival, which
only is open. I think it's only open either Thursday
through Saturday or Thursday through Sunday. Um, but that restaurant
is an indicator, and that's a pretty solid fried chicken order.
It is not soul food, but it's pretty solid Southern food.
That would probably be my other replacement. And my other
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one that was really my top replacement was Ford Fries
Restaurant in j C. T Kitchen, but r I p
because that restaurant is closed down now, so it's really
Busy Bees for me. And if you can't get Busy Bees,
you can give Revival a try. All Right, favorite donuts, y'all.
It's a lot of good donuts to be had in Atlanta,
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but my favorite. You know, when I was growing up,
if you had a church that you grew up in
or your church that you went to was considered to
be your home church, right, So then if you moved,
you could decide were you feeling like you were going
to be at home enough in your new city or
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whatever that you were gonna get a new home church
or where you like, I don't really rock with my
new city like that. I'm gonna remain a member of
my home church. You know, you're gonna send your offerings
or whatever back there. You know, once streaming and different
things came into play, you're gonna listen to the sermons
and stuff like that, you know. And so I I'm
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bringing this principle of home church over into home donut place.
And Revolution Donuts is my home donut place. I don't
care where I travel, I don't care what other donuts
they make out there, and there's a lot of wonderful
donuts to be had. Um shout out to my sister
in law and our pop up podcast here for the donuts.
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We haven't recorded in a while, but if you never
heard me say that we had that podcast, the episodes
are out there for you to listen to our Shenanigans.
And so we've had a lot of time to travel
even and go to different donut spots, and I still
just Revolution Donuts is still my home donut place. And
I'm gonna tell you all how I discovered Revolution Donuts.
I went through a period of time where I was
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having a lot of health issues, and particularly very hormonal issues, right.
And so typically many of you that may have had
issues with your hormones as well, or having hormonal imbalance
and things like that, typically, um, somebody's gonna start talking
to you about your diet because we do eat foods
that also may cause reaction in our hormones, right. And
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so one of the recommendations I was given during that
time was to go dairy free, which just felt like
what is life if I'm gonna go dairy free? Yikes?
But I was like, I gotta do this, I gotta
try and feel better. So I went. I went a
year cold turkey, no dairy, but I craved donuts so bad,
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you know, and the only donuts I really knew was
crispy cream and Dunkin Donuts, you know, that was it.
So I was just like, how am I going to
solve this? And I had learned to cook a lot
of things myself, because there were quite a few things
that I had to stop eating at that time. So
there were some things that I just had to learn
how to make myself because I was never going to
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find a restaurant that was going to know how to
make a version of whatever that was without all of
the things that I couldn't eat because of my dietary restrictions.
So I just decided on a whim to google vegan donuts,
and I figured either a place is going to come
up or a recipe, and Revolution Donuts came up, because
I think at that time they had just opened, probably
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within the last year or so from when I had
had to change my diet, and so I went over
there and just really got my life together. I remember
the first donut that I one of the first donuts
I had there that really amazed me. They made a
vegan Crime Brewley donut. So it was yeast donut fried
as yeast donuts are, but filled with vegan like crime
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brew Let custard, and then it had like the candy
part of the crime brulet over the top of the donut.
I mean, it was amazing. It was amazing. So that's
still in my home donut place. Like I have some
meetings that if I'm the one that needs to bring
food or snacks or whatever, it is gonna be donuts
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from me, and it is specifically gonna be Revolution Donuts.
So if you are a dairy free person, if you're vegan,
I really recommend Revolution Donuts. They don't just have vegan donuts,
but I would say a large portion of the in
you is vegan or dairy free. And for my folks
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who are gluten free or have gluten sensitivity, they do
have a couple of donuts that they typically I think
they're not typically gluten free, but they make some that
are low gluten if you are able to tolerate that
type of thing. And then they have some donuts that
have all the cheese or all the dairy, all the meat,
you know. One of my favorite donuts they have is
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called the Crunchy Mister, which I think is based on
a French sandwich. The I'm sure I'm going to mispronounce it,
so I'm I'm not going to say it, but I
think there's a French sandwich that it's based on, and
it's sort of like, uh, I think the French sandwich
is sort of this like classed up version of a
ham and cheese, right, and so it's a savory donut
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that has ham and best chamel. Oh it is. It
is if you have dietary restrictions and you're able to
have times where you don't have to always be on
your restrictions. That one is one that I will take
for the team because it is that deliciou So I
recommend Revolution Donuts. They have two locations, one Indicator and
one in I think what would be considered like Edgewood
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or m Edmond Park area. Love it. It's delicious and
the coffee is great. For those of you who are
are coffee folks too. Um, you know you hate when
you go to a pastry place and you're suffering through
kind of bad coffee. The coffee is great, the donuts
are great. I recommend if you are in town in
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Atlanta over a weekend, I do recommend Beetle Cat Restaurants
Donut Brunch. They're donuts quiet as it's kept. Are very
high on my like probably Revolutions and and Beetle Cats.
Donut Brunch. Donuts are like in my top two donut
places to try in Atlanta, But you can only get
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donut brunch on the weekends Saturday morning and that kind
of brunch into early afternoon time and Sunday at the
same time. Right. What I love about both donut places though,
is that they tend to have some of their doughnuts
that they just have all year, and then they have
certain donuts that come in and out of the menu
based on what seasonal which I really love that type
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of stuff, so big shout out to Beetle cats doughnut
brunch very delicious, and also Beetle Cat has a signature
donut brunch sandwich that's basically like in the South, there
is a high value placed upon a fried chicken breakfast sandwich.
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If you live in the South, you will see many
iterations of this. You visit the South, visit different places
in the South, you will see many different iterations of this.
Sometimes it's a biscuit with the fried chicken in between
the biscuits. Sometimes it has an egg on it, sometimes
it has gravy. I mean, there's all sorts of things
that are bay stupon this idea that this is the
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best thing you could have for breakfast, which is either
a fried chicken breast or a fried chicken thigh in
between two pieces of some kind of bread. Now here's
where they do this, that donut brunch. Instead of having
biscuits or toast or whatever, there are two vanilla glazed
donuts in place of where the biscuit would be. There's
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the fried chicken, and I think it depends on you know,
when you go. Sometimes the version has been different. The
last version that I had also had an egg on
top that you could you could order the egg where
the egg was going to be kind of running down
the side, and then they also have like a hot
sauce that you can pour on top of it. It.
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It's enough food that probably two or three people could
share it, honestly, but it's one of their signature dishes
that I highly wrecka mend favorite Donuts Revolution and Beetle
Cat's doughnut Brunch. Let's talk about sandwiches. I really and
truly could probably have an entire separate episode regarding sandwiches
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because I'm a person who really loves sandwiches. Like I
just think sandwiches are the best thing. My My best
combination is to have a sandwich with chips and a coke.
Just it really these days, sometimes I'm not coke. I'm
I'm doing like sparkling water and you know, trying to
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you know, decrease my caffeine and my sugar. You know,
things you start having to think about when you get
to be in your forties. But maybe should have thought
about when you were in your thirties. Anyways, So I
just love a good sandwich. Okay, So I have a
thousand sandwiches I could talk to you about. I was
actually just telling a friend recently that I feel like,
if I was going to have a last meal, it's
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a sandwich. Like I would be like, get me that
such and such sandwich. Okay, So I'm gonna tell you
my favorite Italian sandwich. Now, this was my my gateway
entry into the you know, sort of typical I don't know,
I don't I don't know if I should say typical,
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but sort of like you're yeah, I would probably say
your typical Italian sandwich that would have these sort of
layers of Italian deli meat, would typically have like a provolone,
some type of peppers, oil, herb, vinegarrette type of situation
on almost like a hogi kind of bread. Now that
I've said hogies, those of you that have been listening
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to the podcast to know, anytime I've had someone on
here who lives in Philly, I'm always talking about hogs, Like, Okay,
I'm just gonna come back to that later because I
have a lot of emotional feelings about hogs. There are
not hogs in Atlanta. I almost I am wondering now
if I'm into Italian sandwiches, because that's the closest I
get in the South to what a HOGI is like
in Philly. If you live in Philly and you're listening
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to this, go have a hogie today for me, Okay,
because they're amazing. All right, I'm good emotional, Okay. So
I went to Fred's Meet and Bread, which is a
fantastic sandwich stall in one of Atlanta's food halls. And
those of you that I may live in major cities
around the country know that food halls are becoming really popular, uh,
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in different cities. I know, Matt and I have been
to a few of them in different places. And so
one of ours in Atlanta is Croc Street Market Croc
Street Market, which is a smaller food hall, because our
larger food hall is Pont City Market, where there are
even more restaurants and dessert, coffee places, etcetera. But Fred's
Meet and Bread is at Croc Street Market, Croc Street Market.
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Why don't I want to add an art to that?
Y'all is at crocs Street Market and Friends and Meeting Bread. No, lie,
just has a lot of fantastic sandwiches there. Cheese steak
is fantastic. They have a steak cheese steak with mushrooms.
They have sort of your regular, uh, your regular kind
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of beef cheese steak. They have chicken cheese steak. They
have a Korean beef cheese steak. They have a double
stack burger. I want to say, that's really delicious. I really,
for the most part, have not met a sandwich at
Freend's meeting bread that I didn't like. But the one
that really made me fall in love with Fread's Meat
and Bread was their Italian grinder sandwich. And let me
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tell you something, I have a great appreciation for presciutto.
Presciutto just you know, it's one of those things that
it's like, is it really ever the wrong thing? You know,
It's like, you put it on a salad, it's delicious.
You have an charcotari board, it's delicious. You put it
on a sandwich, you know what, it is delicious. So
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the Italian grinder at Fred's Meat and Bread just has
a lot of layers of a lot of different types
of those sort of traditional Italian deli meats. The presciutto
the salami. You know, I mean all of the things
that you want to have. This sandwich has delicious. My
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favorite Italian sandwich is all is really down like two
stalls away from Fred's Mean and Bread, and they're really
like very very close to each other in the running.
But I have to say my favorite Italian sandwich is
the Good Fella, which is at Varoni Napole's, and Varoni
napole is more so to me, like more of a
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pizza place. They actually have two locations and the Crag
Street location is the only location that makes these sandwiches,
and it is similar to the Italian grinder, but done
you know, differently in Varoni napole style. I think what's
giving it the edge for me is the bread. The
bread is tasting very fresh baked. You're getting a little
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bit of that taste of like what you like about
a pizza dough or the cow zone dough. You get
a bit of that taste in the sandwich bread, which
is wonderful. My only small gripe with Rooney Napoli is
that I wish they sold chips, because I told you,
I just love the crunch of some chips with a sandwich,
but that that good Fellow sandwich. Yes, favorite Italian sandwich.
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So if you're visiting Atlanta or if you've just moved
to Atlanta and you're looking for cool places to go,
Croc Street Market is always a win. It's a great
place to go by yourself and just hang out, try
some things. It's a wonderful place to go if you
have people visiting in town that you want to like
take them somewhere, but then everybody can kind of split
up and go eat whatever food they like. I mean,
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there's so many food choices in Croc Street. You have
the belt Line right there, which for us here in Atlanta,
the belt Line is really like a long walking trail
that I think was built on what used to be
railroad tracks, but now there are these certain areas in
the city where you can kind of go and walk,
and there's restaurants along the belt line as well. So
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Croc Street Market is right by all of that area.
So it just gives you a lot of stuff to do.
I do recommend that. But if you're going to go
in there, I mean going to get one of these sandwiches,
is is the right thing to do. It's the right
thing to do. Okay, favorite bakery in the city is
Southern Sweets for me, which is I want to say,
maybe Indicator or if it's not quite Decatur, it's near
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Avondale Estate. Southern Sweets is a fantastic bakery for a
lot of birthdays of different members of our family. Because
of my husband and I both have quite a bit
of family in the Atlanta area. We will go to
Southern Sweets and get cake by the slice. So that way, say,
if it's one person's birthday and that person's cake favorite
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is this, but then the other three or four people
like this other different cake, you can go there and
get cake for maybe six or seven bucks a slice.
And they do also have vegan selections of some of
their desserts. They have cake and pie as well, and
and cheesecake also, so you have that element of sort
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of your your traditional kind of conventional three layer cake
as well as having your cheesecakes, your mouse cakes, your
key lime pie, and lemon meringue. And as a side note,
they also have some pretty solid sandwiches. Like sandwiches are
gonna keep coming up here, they have some pretty solid sandwiches.
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Another sandwich that I'm really in love with is. I
love a good b LT. It's just something about the
b LT that's so. It's such a simple sandwich. I
mean it's literally slices of bacon, sliced tomato, typically some iceberg, lettuce,
and mayo. That's it. Toasted bread, that's all, and it's amazing.
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So typically, if I'm going to Southern Sweets or if
my husband is going to Southern Sweets to pick up
something for me, if there's a chance I can get
there BLT and a slice of cake, I will do it.
But I love their cake and I love all the
varieties of cake that they have that you can go
there and try a bunch of different things and sort
of get cake according to your mood. And of course
if you are having a party, or maybe you don't
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have to have a party and you just want a
whole cake, they do have that as well, or a
whole pie. You can order those in advance. And I
think they do wedding cakes all the things. Favorite bakery
in the Atlanta metro area for me is Southern Sweets.
I do want to give honorable mention regarding cupcakes because
I am also a cupcake connoisseur and cupcakes in Atlanta
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for me have been a little touch and go. We
had too larger like national cupcake chains here for a while.
I think we still have Georgetown cupcakes. And then we
had Sprinkles Cupcakes, which I think was an original um
chain that was out of l A. And when Sprinkles here,
Sprinkles was my favorite cupcake. We actually had a Sprinkles
a t M Atlantox Mall when Sprinkles was here, and
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then Sprinkles closed and I was kind of, you know,
feeling disappointed, because sometimes you want to get involved in
more of a more of a cupcake scenario than you
do a slice of cake. Right. So my favorite cupcake
place is Indulged Bakery, which is actually not too far
from my neighborhood and has a little tea place inside
of it. I'm not sure that Indulged is welcoming people
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to be sitting inside, but they also have a drive through.
Who doesn't love a cupcake drive through? So I recommend
that as a cupcake place. I love their cupcakes. Their
cupcakes are so wonderful, and I love the different combination
of combinations of flavors. And I'll tell you my absolute
favorite cupcake flavor is when the cake itself is chocolate,
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but the frosting is vanilla. And that's a rare combination
in most bakeries, even for slices of cake right or
a three layer cake, you would typically not have where
the the cake itself is like Devil's food and then
the icing is vanilla. But that's actually like my favorite
way to have a cupcake, So big shout out to
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Indulge Cupcake for having a cookies and cream cupcake, which
is sort of the closest I can get to what
my favorite cupcake flavor is. Shout out to that. Also,
let me tell you all a small cupcake story. I
remember before my husband I got married, when I was
single and I had my first apartment. Sometimes to celebrate myself,
or sometimes if I just had a bad week, I
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would go to the grocery store and I would buy
the like what looked like the happy birthday cupcakes, you
know how they came, and like a thing of six.
I would buy them and just bring them home to
my house and enjoy them and celebrate myself or celebrate
that whatever was terrible that it happened was over with.
So you treat yourself in whatever ways are good for you, okay,
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And if that means you need to go up in
the grocery store and get you a six thing of cupcakes.
I was also known for buying a whole pie, eating
some of it, freezing it up by the slice so
that I might put the slice in the micro wave
later and bloom, there I am. If I've got vanilla
ice cream, I'm already right there with one of my
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favorite desserts. Just giving you some hacks, you know, in
case you need more lower budget items that you can
treat yourself to. I'm out here, people, I'm out here
giving you the things, okay. Last favorite thing is wings.
And wings are very important in the South. Like when
we were going through the time where they're like, we're
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having a wing shortage, a lot of gasps out here
in Atlanta, a lot of shortage of wings. And then
they were trying to sell us that like chicken thighs
could be the same and bone listen, wings, I don't know.
I don't know anything about that, but wings are very
important here in Atlanta, in particular, lemon pepper wings are
very important here. Just having wing places that have a
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variety of flavors very important. Here. So, my favorite wing spot,
the one that my husband and I go to most
often is the Wing Bar. And I think the Wing
Bar has at least two locations, and they have so
many flavors of wing and then depending on your order,
you can sometimes get your order split if you wanted
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like two different flavors, like sometimes I like to have
lemon pepper and barbecue. But really, barbecue sauce is really
where it's at for me, y'all, Like when the old
lady was on the commercial saying I put that ship
on everything, Like for me, that's barbecue sauce for me, Like,
I'm gonna find a way to put that on my
French fries. I want it on my sandwich. You know.
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I just love barbecue sauce as a condiment. Okay, So
my favorite flavor of wing is probably barbecue sauce. And
I really love the barbecue sauce at the Wing Bar.
I love a crinkle fry. They have wonderful crinkle fries.
You can get the crinkle fries seasoned, not so you can,
I think you can get them sauced and seasoned right,
so you could get the fries like with old Bay
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seasoning or with more of like a lowry seasoning or
with lemon pep or seasoning right. Or you can get
the fries sauced, but you can choose the same sauces
that are available for wings. So I love a good
I love a good seasoning fry. I just love a
good choice there. And that's also a meal for me.
That always feels like a soda is where it's at,
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And really it just always feels like a coke, you know.
I try a sprite, I try a Fanta or sun
Kissed or whatever, but the coke just really sparkling water
can get you in there a little bit because you're
at least getting the bubbles. But something about coke I
don't know, y'all. I don't know. Wings. Coke fries just
always seems like the right thing. This is not one
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of those wing places where you are getting crew to
te on the side. So if crewe tote is a
thing you're concerned with, you should cut up your your
celery and carrots before you do this thing. Okay, those
are my favorite A t L eats. I love my city,
as many of you know this, which is why I
have lived here so long and loved call at home
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but I love our food scene here. I love how
it's always changing and thriving. There's always new stuff to
check out. So if you live in Atlanta and you're
listening to this episode and you have stuff that you
think I should add to this, please dm me on
Instagram or Twitter and let me know or tweet at
me and let me know. Would love to hear your recommendations.
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And if you're visiting the city, check out these things
and right back to me. Let me know if things
were equally delicious to you. Thanks so much for listening.
I'll see you all next week. Heard with Amina Brown
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a part of the Seneco Women podcast Network and partnership
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