[quote name='mykevermin']LIES.
Not only did I miss you in Chicago last week, I was in Atlanta the first weekend of November (not that I had a spare moment). I finally got to have pancakes at Ria's Bluebird. HOLY

. And cheap, too. If you can tolerate the too-hipster-to-give-good-service (a/k/a just plain hipster) service, it's hella worth it.
There are a number of really good places to eat right on Memorial SE south of Oakland Cemetery. Decatur has a number of good food spots as well. The only place in ATL where I was a bit dumbfounded with the food offerings was where we were staying (Mariott Marquis, home of next year's ASC

). But that's b/c it's the typical convention area of a metro downtown.
(oh, also, there appeared to be a new-ish craft beer bar on Memorial a few blocks west of Rias/Tin Lizzy etc. - didn't catch the name, though I'm sure you're quite familiar with it.)
Now, if you want to argue that there's no good pizza in ATL, that's not something I am able to argue against. But as for good food, I had some damned good meals there a few weeks ago. Also, I'm hella addicted to Chicago style dogs now, and can't get a good hot dog in Philly to save my

ing life.
Now I'm just hungry, and quite off topic. But we're talking about pizza anyway, so...yeah.[/QUOTE]
Sorry I missed you as well. Ended up super hung over on Thursday so didn't do much that day, and was booked on Friday.
The problem I have is most of the good food spots around town are pub/bar food, southern food, BBQ etc. which I don't like eating very often. With some notable exceptions of course. Atlanta isn't a bad food town by any means, just not comparable to the big NE cities. It's especially lacking as most of the good Asian, Mexican and other ethnic food spots are up on Buford Highway with a lot of them way up in the suburbs where there's a bigger immigrant population--really isn't any big immigrant neighborhoods intown, weird for such a big city to not have a Chinatown area etc.
Lot's of great places to grab a burger and a beer, some ok Italian joints etc., but lacking on ethnic food, good healthy restaurants etc. which are more my style when wanting to eat out rather than grab drinks and food with friends when it's more about the beer and conversation. Atlanta has a great selection of those kind of spots--though I haven't tried the place on Memorial you're talking about.
But location is a lot of it, I work downtown (about a mile south of that hotel) and live in mid town (about 2 miles north of it) so I generally only go out to eat around those areas. I usually don't feel like driving over to Memorial/Grant Park or up to Buckhead or the suburbs where some of the better spots are. Living in a city has made me lazy about driving, especially when traffic and parking can be a pain.
