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: Quick Review: Burgers & Ice Cream at Kern’s Food Hall I’m a bit late to trying Kern’s Food Hall on Chapman Highway. When it opened up, they charged for parking, and as much as some of the food shops there …
: Quick Review: The Lazy Beagle My wife and I stopped in Sweetwater, Tennessee for dinner at a place called The Lazy Beagle. It got great reviews on Google and I’d say we were quite …
: Taking a Break to Focus on My Health This was going to be a goodbye post, but a couple of people whose opinions I respect have convinced me to make it a “so long for a while” post. Why I …
: Review and More: Lone Oaks Farm I recently had the opportunity to eat a simple but delicious meal prepared for some of my colleagues and me at a place called Lone Oaks Farm. So I’ll …
: Review: Carnivore Club March Shipment You know your day is going to be interesting when you receive an email from a company offering to send you a box of meat. I was intrigued by this …
: Review: Primo Ristorante Italiano Every now and then I feel really lucky to write this blog, usually because it gives me a reason to try new restaurants when I hear about them, and, …
: Quick Review: Quality Turkish Market I love discovering new (to me) restaurants - especially when I do so via personal recommendations. Last week I took action based on independent …
: Quick Review: Grujo’s We were returning to Knoxville last week from Johnson City, so my wife and I decided to look for something new on the East side of town for dinner. We …
: Quick Review - K-Town Tavern Peerless, a longtime west-Knoxville restaurant on Parkside Drive, of which I was not a fan, recently rebranded itself as K-Town Tavern. It’s close to …
: Quick Takes VI - Little Joe's Pizza Still Great I often lament the lack of good deep dish, let alone true Chicago style pizza in Knoxville. Even so, when we want pizza, Little Joe’s is always there …
: Quick Takes V - Taco Bell on Lovell Road No, I’m not punking you. Those who know me know that, with almost no exceptions, I avoid eating at chain restaurants as much as possible, and fast …
: Quick Takes IV - It’s All So Yummy Still a Favorite My wife did something she almost never does yesterday. She stayed home sick because she was sick, not because our son was. So when I was bringing The …
: Quick Takes III - Five Points Pizza and More We made an overnight trip to Nashville recently to attend my nephew’s birthday party, so we were able to enjoy an afternoon and evening to ourselves …
: Quick Takes II - It’s All About It’s All So Yummy We continue to have great experiences at It’s All So Yummy, so this edition of Quick Takes is all about our favorite sandwich & ice cream spot. We …
: Review - Scotty’s Restaurant Eight years ago I attended a writer’s workshop in Dayton, Ohio, which meant I drove North on I-75 for about 4.5 hours and got to see parts of …
: Review - Mario’s Pizza and Grill We’ve added a new restaurant to our regular weekly list in the last couple of months - Mario’s. I can’t recall exactly why we tried Mario’s for the …
: Quick Takes I Blackhorse Pub & Brewery We had dinner at Blackhorse on a Friday night recently and one of the specials was a Mahi Mahi dish served over pasta. The …
: A Tale of Two Receipts It was the best of dining experiences, it was the worst of dining experiences. Ok, it wasn’t the worst, but it was quite disappointing. Tomato HeadWe …
: Shaking up the format Site Business It’s been a cold and busy Winter so far, and I’ve let far too many posts pile up in my queue without giving GFC the attention it …
: Quick Review: Forte's on the Square On the way back from enjoying Thanksgiving with my family in Nashville, my wife asked me if I wanted to stop for dinner in Crossville. We’d never …
: Quick Review: Forte's on the Square On the way back from enjoying Thanksgiving with my family in Nashville, my wife asked me if I wanted to stop for dinner in Crossville. We’d never …
: Quick Review: Gondola House Pizzeria We spent Thanksgiving with my family in Hermitage this year, and on Black Friday we decided to take everybody out to dinner. We tried Gondola House …
: Quick Review: Blaze Pizza I heard about a new pizza place opening in Knoxville in an unusual way recently. I was contacted by someone at a PR firm saying she liked my blog and …
: Quick Review: Chick-fil-A Breakfast I have other restaurants in the queue to review, but after posting a very brief write-up of breakfast at Bojangles last night, I woke up this morning …
: Quick Review: Bojangles We got moving early enough Sunday morning that we had time to stop for breakfast on the way to church instead of grabbing a granola bar on the way out …
: Quick Review: It's All So Yummy Cafe It’s All So Yummy Cafe is a soup, sandwich, and ice cream shop in West Knoxville on S. Peters Rd. We had dinner there Friday night and it was really …
: Quick Review: Universal Joint I made a day trip to Chattanooga with some coworkers to meet with some colleagues from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. We wrapped up our …
: Quick Review: Sweet P's BBQ Revisit A quick post to document a revisit to one of our favorite restaurants and the best barbecue joint in Knoxville - Sweet P’s. If you’d like a longer …
: Quick Review: Lotus Garden This review will be short because I don’t have much to say that’s positive. We felt like Chinese for dinner the other night but didn’t want to drive …
: Quick Review: Snappy Tomato Pizza - Farragut On a rainy Sunday evening this past week we decided to give one of our old regular spots that we hadn’t eaten at in a while another shot - Snappy …
: Quick Review: Back Yard Burgers This will be a quick review, and the TL:DR version would be - trust a burger place to do burgers and you’ll likely be satisfied. We couldn’t decide …
: Cider Roundup III: New Flavors I picked up two new varieties of cider last week. One wasn’t completely new so much as it was wrapped in a new label - Woodchuck Fall Harvest. I found …
: Quick Review: Revisiting McNamara's Irish Pub Something I enjoy almost as much as eating at one of my favorite restaurants is sharing them with people I know. That’s one reason I write this blog, …
: Quick Review: La Cabaña Cuban Flavor We decided to give La Cabaña a second chance this weekend. We had tried and liked it several months ago, but had a couple of issues that gave us …
: Quick Review: The Other One I’m going to do something in this review that I rarely do - admit that I was horribly, painfully wrong about something. I’ll get to that later, …
: Quick Review: Little Nicky's New York Pizza We tried a new pizza place last week - Little Nicky’s New York Pizza. We were actually going to eat at a sandwich and ice cream shop next door, but we …
: Quick Review: Revisiting Sergeant Pepperoni's - Still Great I reviewed Sergeant Pepperoni’s back in June of 2012. It was a fairly new place in Knoxville then, and we really loved eating there. They’ve done so …
: Quick Review: Oscar's Taco Shop I love fish tacos. Even bolded like that, those words are inadequate to express how I feel about fish tacos. Fish tacos rank in my top 5 foods, easy, …
: Disney Vacation 2014: Review - Liberty Tree Tavern Our first dinner at Magic Kingdom was at Liberty Tree Tavern. We’d never eaten here before, and since my wife handled all the planning and …
: Disney Vacation 2014: Quick Service Dining Multi-Review My wife and I were Annual Pass holders for several years, making multiple trips to Walt Disney World each year. In all that time, we never ate at any …
: Disney Vacation 2014: Review - Raglan Road Irish Pub Having spent the night in Lake City, we arrived in Orlando around late morning on Thursday. We grabbed some lunch at a place that wasn’t …
: Guest Post: R&G Lounge - San Francisco, CA San Francisco. It’s a city of IKEA sized apartments that cost more than my lifetime’s total accumulated wealth (estimated; if we have another 2008 …
: Disney Vacation 2014: On the Road Review - Mike's Cafe & Grille We left home a bit later than we’d planned (isn’t that always the case when you have a toddler?) on Wednesday, and we got on the road about …
: New Series - Disney Vacation 2014 I’m going to branch out just a bit with this series, but don’t fret, most of the posts will be food and/or restaurant related in some way. Our family …
: Quick Review: Chandler's Deli I’ll tell you all you need to know about Chandler’s Deli in this first sentence - they make hands-down the best fried chicken, and the best macaroni & …
: Cider Roundup II: Alternate Fruits Most of the hard cider I’ve drunk has been made with just apples. My favorite ciders, or perhaps more accurately, my favorite commercially available …
: Quick Review: We're Cooking All American Grill One of my favorite restaurants in Knoxville is a little burger joint called We’re Cooking All American Grill. We came across it in a shopping center …
: Quick Review: Hard Knox Pizzeria If you’d like the short version of this review, Hard Knox Pizzeria makes some of the most interesting and delicious pizza I’ve ever had, the service …
: Quick Review: Mother Earth Meats I’ve mentioned before that when we end up being dissatisfied with a restaurant, we’ll give it six months, and try it again to see if things have …
: Quick Review: Stan's Country Restaurant Had to make a trip for work to Spring Hill, TN to roll out a new network, wired and wireless, at our Middle Tennessee Research and Education Center. I …
: Quick Review: Waffle House My wife had a bridal shower for a young woman at church to attend this Saturday morning, which left our son and I free to do whatever we wished for …
: Quick Review: Meksiko Cantina As I’ve mentioned before, I like Mexican food. So when my wife suggested we try a place in West Knoxville we hadn’t tried for quite a while, I said …
: Quick Review: Brixx Pizza I’m going to start off this review a little differently by saying I simply cannot recommend Brixx Pizza in Turkey Creek. But first, to make up for the …
: Quick Review: JB's Pour House Made another trip to Nashville this weekend to visit family. We were looking for a new place to try for lunch on Labor Day. Our first two choices, a …
: Quick Review: Kasumi and Thai Cafe I like spicy food. And by spicy, I don’t mean something you might taste and say, “Ah, that’s a little spicy.” I mean food that makes you break out in …
: Quick Review: Parkside Grill I used a phrase in a review I posted a couple days ago that seems to have caught at least one person’s eye - referring to a restuarant as “predictably …
: Quick Review: House of Gyro Salad & Hamburger I was on my own for lunch yesterday in Nashville, so I did what I always do - looked for someplace new and local to try. I was driving down Lebanon …
: Quick Review: El Chico Another day in Nashville means another dinner with my parents. Like me, they love Mexican food. Like Knoxville, there seems to be an abundance of …
: Quick Review: McNamara's Irish Pub & Restaurant There is one restuarant in Nashville I make a point of eating at whenever I drive in, be it to visit family or on business. McNamara’s Irish Pub & …
: Fitness-Walking Study One of the things I really enjoy about working at a university is feeling like I’m connected in some way, and often supporting, education and research …
: Cider Roundup I I like hard cider. I like it a lot, and I try every new brand and variant I comes across, always hoping to find one that’s better than my favorites. …
: Quick Review: Steak n Shake It’s funny what becoming a parent has done to our eating out habits. My wife and I have always eaten out, probably too much by the standards of many. …
: Quick Review: Sweet P's Barbeque and Soul House Barbeque. That’s not a typo or mistake. I typed “barbeque” up there and left it on a line all by itself because it’s that important, that special to …
: Quick Review: Blackhorse Pub & Brewery Thursday is $5 Cheeseburger Special day at Blackhorse, so my coworker and I had lunch there today. Friday is Bacon Cheeseburger Soup day, so my family …
: Quick Review: El Mezcal Mexican Restaurant I like Mexican food. I like it so much, I’m willing to settle for the mediocre Mexican food I can find in Knoxville. That’s what I did tonight - …
: Quick Review: Long's Drug Store One of my favorite lunch spots in Knoxville is Long’s Drug Store in Bearden. It’s close enough to campus for a quick lunch, and inexpensive enough …
: Quick Review: Carolina Ale House I don’t like to write negative reviews of restaurants - but I’m trying to write a post per day and we tried a new (to Knoxville) place last night and …
: Quick Review: Poynor's Pommes Frites My wife and I took a day off work recently and drove up to Pigeon Forge to see a movie (Guardians of the Galaxy) and do some shopping. After the …
: Quick Review: Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop It’s been way too long since my last post, and I think one reason for the gap is that, while I always have ideas for posts here at GFC, I never have …
: School Coupon Book Dining Series: Salsarita' Fresh Cantina The school kids in Knox County sell coupon books every Fall as a fundraiser. We usually buy several books at $10 each and get more than our money’s …
: Sergeant Pepperoni's - Not Just Pizza and All Good Well, it's settled. My wife and I have a new favorite restaurant in Knoxville, and we're already eating there often enough that the servers recognize …
: The Duke of Crisp - A New Cider from Les Ault … My buddy Les Ault handed me a bottle of his latest creation yesterday, The Duke of Crisp. As a new dad, I don't have much time these days to just …
: One Geek's DIY Smoothies In an effort to be a completely unique snowflake, I decided to start exercising and eating better at the beginning of this year. I've started going to …
: Little Joe's - Best Pizza in Knoxville Pizza is a complicated, nuanced topic. Most people I know prefer one style of pizza to another - Chicago deep dish over New York thin crust, for …
: Bearden Hill Fieldhouse - Round Two We decided to go out to eat tonight, and I laughed when my wife looked at me and said, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" So we ended up at Bearden …
: New Restaurant in Knoxville - Bearden Hill Fieldhouse We tried a brand new restaurant tonight - Bearden Hill Fieldhouse. It's billed as a sports-themed restaurant and bar and based on the sheer number of …
: Dining at Home - Two Great Tastes We decided to eat in tonight, and I'm very glad we did. My wife prepared a couple of ribeye steaks that were as good as any steakhouse steak I've had …
: My Favorite Adult Beverage - Hard Cider I've never developed a taste for beer. Sure, I can drink it, but I've yet to find a beer I actually like, especially not from the first sip. Given …
: Nashville Trip - Bolton's Spicy Chicken & Fish I recently spent a week in Nashville to attend a training class. The trip lasted five days and I tried a new and different restaurant each night. …
: Geek Food Critic - A Reboot Judging by the date of the most recent post on this blog, nearly 18 months ago, I'd say it's time for a reboot. I'm going to try to bring this blog …
: Going Vegetarian - Day Seven Dinner at Savelli's Italian Seventh day on my vegetarian diet and I decided to check out an Italian place that came up during lunch the previous day …
: Going Vegetarian - Day Six Lunch & Dinner at Dazzo's Sixth day on my vegetarian diet. Went to Dazzo's with a group of guys at lunch and it was so awesome, decided to go back for …
: Going Vegetarian - Day Five Dinner at Wok-Hay Today was the fifth day on my vegetarian diet. Another sucky/stressful day at work turned into another trip out to eat. Yay stress! …
: Going Vegetarian - Day Four Dinner at Stir Fry Cafe (Turkey Creek) Today was the fourth day on my vegetarian diet. We were going to eat some salad and a couple of Nutrisystem …
: Going Vegetarian - Day Three Dinner at Shono's Japanese Grill This was the third day on my vegetarian diet and the first time we ate out since beginning it. I normally order the …
: First Post! So I’m a geek. And I like to eat. I’m in the habit of posting pics of and comments about the food I eat to Facebook, especially when I eat out. …