Atlanta, Georgia

Working on this in my spare time; pardon my outline.

Bistro

• Apres Diem
• Eclipse di Sol

Burgers and Fries

• Varsity, The
  • An Atlanta institution since 1703, The Varsity serves up hot dogs, hamburgers, greasy fries, and Frosted Oranges all day, every day. Bills itself as "the world's largest drive-in", but I've always eaten inside. Visitors to the city are required by municipal ordinance to eat here at least once and "get their oil changed", as the Tech students say. Locals only eat there when taking visitors along. It's on North Avenue, right next to the 75/85 overpass (West Peachtree exit if northbound).

Japanese

• Sakanaya
• Sushi Yoshi
• Yakitori Jinbei

Malaysian

• Malaya

Mexican

• Willy's
  • A "California style" burrito shop, and local alternative to the corporate juggernaut that is Moe's. Tasty and cheap, but my own burritos are superior. Amazingly busy at lunchtimes; people have been known to phone in orders while standing inside the restaurant to avoid waiting in line.

Pizza

• Fellini's
  • A chain of pizza restaurants which reside exclusively in converted old filling stations with garages. The pizza's good, cheap, and usually fast. You can get whole pizzas, but nearly everyone orders by the slice. Try the Special or the White. Several brews on tap, or do it up traditional style and gulp down all thr root beer you can drink (sadly, Coca-Cola finally terminated production of their "Ramblin'" brand, so now there's just Barq's). Located all over the damn place.
• Savage Pizza

Southern

• Flying Biscuit Cafe
  • Look no further for all your lesbian upscale Southern cooking needs. Trendy, popular, tasty, and not very expensive, the Flying Biscuit is -- well, in my opinion it's really just a decent place to eat, though it has attained near-legenday status. They don't do "cookin'" so much as "a New South interpretation of traditional cuisine". Which means you don't get cheese grits, you get grits with spinach and gruyere. Two locations, one in Gay Central at 10th and Piedmont, and the original on McLendon, over in Candler Park (just east of Little 5). The original has an attached bakery, which is pretty awesome.
• Mary Mac's Tearoom
• OK Cafe
  • Decent Southern-style dinner fare. Chicken, chicken fried steak, ham. Blackeye peas, green beans, creamed corn (sweet corn, not field corn, so it's North Georgia Southern). Cornbread or biscuits? Sweet tea to drink. My only complaint is that their version of Southern boils down to "Salty. No, saltier." and this is coming from someone who grew up on field peas cooked with ham hocks. At Northside and West Paces Ferry.
• Silver Dollar Cafe
  • On Monroe, just south of 10th. Seems like an awesome little meat-and-2-veg type place, but I've never eaten here because they ONLY TAKE CASH and I never have any on me.

Spanish

• Sala

Vietnamese

• Pho Hoa
  • Pho Hoa is the Wal*Mart of pho joints, but it's still decently tasty, and a good place to start. In the ever-so-appropriately named Asian Square on Buford Highway. Be aware that at any time approaching "mealtime", or at any time during the weekend, it is nigh impossible to park here. Try off-hours.
• 700 Other Pho Joints
  • The area surrounding the length of Buford Highway which extends through DeKalb County and the town of Chamblee is affectionately known these days as Chambodia, and in the past year or three a panoply of pho places has opened up along its length, adding to the multiculti sensory experience of the street. Most of them have names like "Pho 75" and "No. 1 Pho". I am attracted to and terrified by them all, but have yet to eat at any of them.

Groceries

• Buford Farmer's Market (Pan-Asian, Mexicano)
• DeKalb Farmer's Market (Every Vegetable Ever)
• Tomato (Japanese)