Liz Visits

Liz braved the Atlanta August heat and came to visit us.

First stop: Papi's for some Cuban food.

Dinner: Korean BBQ (Hae Woon Dae)

Banchan


Meat a sizzlin'...

Then it was off to Zesto for dessert.

My banana split.

Liz looks a little intimidated by the volume of ice cream.

Road Trip to Toronto

Meeting up with family in Toronto + Air planes tickets are ridiculously expensive = Road Trip!

Part way through TN, got hungry (around lunch time), and saw a sign for a random 'que joint.

From the outside.

From the inside. Ribs and pulled pork.

A little further up I-75 in KY.

Yup, that's a KFC, but not any old KFC...

It's the original "Sander's Cafe" where it all started.

Little "museum" area with old paraphernalia. The colonel looks awfully east Asian to me... perhaps part of why KFC is so successful out there.

A very modern KFC meal though... at least they still have sporks.

Mock-up recreation of the original kitchen.

Further along the drive, we take a 50+ mile detour to catch an out-of-state detour (we only thought it would be like 30 miles out of the way) for Zesto's (New Albany, IN).

Zesto. It indeed is good.

Proof of Goodness.

Random stop in Cincinnati just to see what's there. Wasn't the most exciting, but it seemed like a pretty nice city. Ended up spending the night at some random motel a little further up the interstate (still in Ohio).

Zesto?

Sue and I really like Zesto's in Atlanta. This had made me do a little research into the chain. It used to be a national franchise, but the franchise apparently went out of business and then the remaining privately owned stores kept going on. As a result, they have all evolved slightly differently over the years. I want to try out as many as I can (there are about ten-ish states that have Zesto's still).

Outside. From what I can tell, most still have vaguely similar logos. This one, however, has an espresso bar which you will not find in any Atlanta-area Zestos. The whole thing feels sort of like Darwin's Finches to me... they started off from the same ancestry, but then took different paths.

Milk shake!

Burger and fries.

For dinner that night, we ended up at the Elysian Brewery, which is just a few blocks away from Liz's place.

A form of bangers and mash.