10 Top Bars in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia Read more →
Tag: The South
Distiller Magazine Interviews — Atlanta: Murrell’s Row Distillery & Kirk Gibson of Lucky Star
Distiller Magazine Interviews, Miami: Valentino Longo of ViceVersa & Bela Nahori of Chainbridge Distillery
Published in the Summer 2026 print issue of Distiller Magazine: Read more →
Eating & Drinking Around Raleigh-Durham: My 12-Stop North Carolina Guide
The Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary, NC. Photo by Virginia Miller. Though I have been to Charleston over four times the past 16 years, I hadn’t been back to North Carolina in 16 years, when I took my first (of multiple) two week road trip across the Deep South to study my barbecue styles. North Carolina is famed for BBQ and… Read more →
Distiller Magazine: Top 10 Nashville Bars + Interviews with Nelson’s Green Brier Distillers & Pinewood Social’s Matt Tocco
The Fox Bar, Nashville In the Fall 2019 print issue of Distiller Magazine: My article on 10 of Nashville’s best bars (Bastion, The Patterson House, Pinewood Social, The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club, Henrietta Red, Woolworth on 5th, No. 308, Gertie’s Bar at The 404 Kitchen, Urban Cowboy Public House, Black Rabbit) here My interview with Nelson’s Green Briar Distillery… Read more →
My Memphis Food & Drink Guide
I helped write a number of guides for Google Area 120’s new Touringbird guides with insider tips on cities around the world (more on Touringbird here). Of course, my tips are heavy on dining, food, bars, drink. Here is my guide to Memphis and top food, BBQ and coffee recommends at City & State coffee, my “secret” Memphis barbecue dish you don’t know about at… Read more →
11 Top Cocktails Around the US Now — June 2018
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, you’ll find my top national drinks now at these bars/restaurants (click on each for the featured cocktail): Read more →
11 Top Tequila Cocktails Around the US Now
Covering the 11 hottest cocktails of the month around the US at Liquor.com, I also am talking tequila this May. Here are 11 bars around North America (click on each for the featured cocktail) making standout tequila cocktails now: Read more →
MEMPHIS LOVE: Top Places to Eat & Drink
No question: Memphis a true music lover’s mecca. From the humble storefront of Sun Records, the recording studio that changed the world, to the neon Stax sign, housing a great museum in the former studio home of soul, it’s a thrill visiting these nondescript buildings where rock and roll and soul were essentially born to go out into the world.… Read more →
Why Oxford, Mississippi, is a Food & Literature Lover’s Small Town
With its idyllic town square and romantic, Southern architecture and small town welcome, Oxford, Mississippi, is a worthy road trip stop for food and literature lovers like myself. Offerings are few but vibrant, even if for those of us who care little about sports the town is too dominated by the University of Mississippi and Ole Miss Rebels games. Despite… Read more →