Intown Photorealism

Atlanta artist Christina Bray has a great installation of paintings (through March 23) at the Callanwolde Art Center Gallery featuring her take on some favorite Atlanta street scenes, including the venerable Krog Tunnel.

Pop by the Callanwalde center (closed Sunday) to see these fun paintings, then get out and enjoy on of the city's best gardens.

A Last Taste of Tierra

In the 13 years since Tierra opened on Piedmont Avenue in Midtown Atlanta, I have gone from casual foodie, to corporate entertainer, to a once a quarter escapee from the kids on a weekend night. In all these years Tierra has remained remarkably the same: impeccable food, warm service and, of course, purveyor of the city's most famous desert.

News that my favorite Atlanta restaurant was closing hit the wire right before Christmas.  While I feel I am loosing a great friend, based on our meal last weekend, owners Ticha and Dan Krisksy are going out on a Seinfeld-like high note.  

In Atlanta?  You still have a week before the final dinner service on Friday, February, 17. Not in Atlanta?  We have the world's busiest airport, make the trip.