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Restaurant

Daddy D’z BBQ Joint – Atlanta Restaurant Review

A sweet, blood red splatter dot the size of a pinhead gave it all away. Standing there, I tried my hardest to beat back the smile creeping across my face. I didn’t stay home – I couldn’t, not tonight – nothing drives me away from my laptop like an essay paper due the next morning.

When the Jamaican waitress with a sugary sweet accent asked for my order on this particular sunday evening, ‘the sampler plate’ spilled out of my mouth with giddy excitement. Daddy D’z BBQ joint located south of the MARTA tracks and just off the King/Memorial station is clearly not in the middle of a suburban planned community. A soccer mom and her son sit happily in the corner, pacing themselves through the meal and laughing in between bits of meat and spoonfuls of their top shelf sweet potato sides, clearly they know a good thing when they find it. No longer a secret, and to the point of being cliche, the food at Daddy D’z is good – sickeningly great in fact.
Barbecue shacks in the deep south are as abundant as Filiberto shacks in the south west. Heavy debates over which is better, over which is the best, over which sauce lathered on the most tender meat will cause you to curse the day you decided to become vegetarian and regret all the lost time that could have been spent devouring red covered animal parts. A grinning smile I once fought back, stretches across my face right now just thinking about the beef, the pork, and the sides.

The building creeks under the weight of the big Daddy D’z sign when you walk through the gravel parking lot towards the door barely hanging on its hinges. After your food arrives, you sit there with one plate full of meat and another plate sitting empty, waiting for the bones beneath the hunks of smokey flesh to be uncovered and discarded.

Thinking back, some of my absolute best meals have been eaten from styrofoam plates, using plastic silverware – Daddy D’z is no different. Recently, on the rare night when my vegetarian girlfriend is out and I’m left to my own devices, I’ve been heading directly for the next barbecue spot, the next great place that everyone raves about, the spot that everyone says you must try – and then I remember how reviews tend to mathematically compare each spot as if it’s an equation – a poor comparison of souls. While sitting there at my dingy, uneven table, surrounded by walls that have obviously soaked in their share of pork and beef fat molecules, I have no idea how anything anywhere else could possibly be better than this.

Daddy D’z is everything it wants to be and on that tired Sunday night the only diners in the restaurant were people seemingly not there for anything other than what they know – that this place delivers the goods and it doesn’t matter who you are. Whether you’re the hipster twenty-something woman with thick rimmed glasses in the corner, the father and his two sons trying to watch the football game on the big screen, or me – some guy desperately trying to avoid writing his paper that’s due the next morning.

So when my girlfriend came home later that evening and asked me how the paper was coming along, before I could utter any sort of simple lie, she noticed the blood red splatter dot on my shirt and immediately knew how I had spent my evening. Daddy D’z is my new favorite barbecue joint and it was absolutely worth it.

Review Summary: 4.8 out of 5

Daddy D’z BBQ Joint

264 Memorial Dr SE

Atlanta, GA 30312

(404) 222-0206

Hotel

List of Hotels For World Tours

Wanting to roam the whole world? Here are some of the best places to offer you great accommodations.

JW Marriott Hotel Dubai
This is a hotel that offers not just great accommodation but also impressive and modern architecture in downtown Dubai. It has a marble atrium lobby with a gleaming glass façade. The major facilities that the hotel offers are a health club with sauna, fitness equipment, jetted tub and beauty and massage treatments. It also has a terrace with outdoor rooftop swimming pool.

All the common areas are air conditioned and with wireless internet connections. The lobby also has complimentary newspapers. The staff at the concierge desk speaks many languages. The hotel has a total of 11 restaurants so guests have a great number of dining choices, depending on their present cravings. These restaurants offer wide variety of cuisines.

The hotel has a total of 351 guestrooms. All rooms are equipped with modern amenities. Even the bathroom has complete complimentary toiletries. Other amenities offered are a ballroom, exhibit space, conference rooms, banquet facilities, breakfast services, secretarial services, babysitting or child care, and computer rental.

There is a billiards hall, equipment for barbecuing, umbrella, wedding services, translation services, gift shop or newsstand, and a poolside bar.

These are just some of their amenities present. There are also attractions near the hotel. Some of the popular sites of the city are the Spice Souq Market, Gold Souq Market, Dubai Creek, Bur Juman Shopping Centre, Dubai Museum, Sheikh Mohammed Centre For Cultural Understanding, and Ski Dubai.

Radisson Hotel Shimla
This is a hotel in Shimla India. The first thing that they can offer their guests is their full service restaurant called the Café Calley Vue. It offers not just Indian but also international dishes. They also have the Pulse Terrasse Bar that offers nice views of the hotel coming from the terrace. They have meeting space for all business travelers. These meeting spaces can cater to a maximum of 100 persons. The hotel only has 59 guestrooms, all with wonderful views of the Himalayan Mountains and Valleys. All the rooms have modern amenities with mini bars on it.

Other facilities include banquet facilities, bar and lounge, business center and many more. The two famous attractions here are the Shimla Town Center and Shimla Railway Station.

Berlin Marriott
This is the newest property in Central Berlin Germany. It is located in the redeveloped Postdamer Plaza. The plaza has lots of things to offer its guests. It attracts the most tourists than any place else in Germany. It is therefore always filled with a good crowd.

The hotel has modern architecture. Their furnishings at the lobby are brightly colored. This is a ten story hotel that offers 370 guestrooms. They also have 9 suites available.

The Berlin Marriot has been the Mid-town Grill’s home. This Mid-town Grill is open 24 hours a day. They specialize in sea foods and steaks. They also have a lobby bar that offers all kinds of drinks and snacks. Light meals are also offered here. This bar has modern environment to offer the guests.

The hotel also has a sauna, fitness canter, indoor pool, front desk and room services that are available 24 hours a day. For businesses and gatherings, they have grand ballroom and conferences rooms. These conference rooms can cater up to 600 persons.

Food

My Top 10 Favorite Diet Foods of All Time

Being on a diet is NOT the end of the world! Sure, it’s usually the end of your enjoyment of food…at least, for awhile…like until you’ve paid for all your PREVIOUS enjoyment of food. But know this: it doesn’t have to be like that the WHOLE time.

It’s all in how you LOOK at the foods you’re eating…

So I’ve compiled a list of my top 10 all-time favorite diet foods. Though let me tell you right up front, these foods have made it onto the list by virtues that may not be immediately obvious (you’ll see what I mean in a second).

You see, they’re NOT your typical diet foods like rice cakes and chicken breasts…

10. Triple Cheeseburgers

This is a STAPLE diet food that should be on everyone’s list. Why? Because you will burn a TON of calories constantly catching that middle burger patty that keeps shooting out the back of the bun from all the grease every time you bite into it.

And if you’re worried about getting too many calories from the sandwich itself, just remove the lettuce and tomato – all that healthy crap does is slow down the fatty meat clawing its way through your digestive tract.

9. Pizza

Pizza is the PERFECT diet food, according to the Government Food Pyramid. How so, you ask?

Just look at it! First, you’ve got “grains” making up the bottom of the pizza (just like the bottom of the pyramid)…a delicious, thick nutritionless white flour gob. Next up, you’ve got the dairy group – cheese, of course (lots of great calcium to be found there, which can enhance fat-burning by up to 1/25 of a percent)! You’ve also got your vegetables (unless you get your pizza with no vegetables, in which case you’ll have to count pepperoni as a vegetable, which I am FINE with, by the way). Finally, you’ve got the meat group…right on top.

Good eating and a perfect match to the food pyramid, in structure if not intent!

8. Cold Beer

Do you have any idea how many calories your body burns simply warming up cold beer to body temperature in your stomach? No? Good…because ignorance is VERY important for making this tip work.

You see every time you eat or drink a food that is colder than body temperature, your body must expend heat warming that food up. A single bottle of cold beer will cause the body to burn almost 8,000 calories (give or take) warming it up to body temperature.

And believe me, there have been studies that back this up. In fact, the more beer that was “studied,” the higher that number went up!

This technique works well with soda, too. But not that “diet” garbage – you want to go with the REAL stuff. It has to contain at least 48 grams of high fructose corn syrup per 30 gram serving to maximize fat burning (that GIANT insulin spike followed by the tremendous crash in blood sugar burns a TON of calories).

7. Rice Krispie Squares

Everybody knows Rice Krispies are made up almost entirely of air. So eating Rice Krispie squares is just like eating air. That thick layer of fudge on the top is just required to keep the squares from floating away. It’s a totally guilt-free snack. In fact, eat the whole pan and you’ll actually get LIGHTER because you’re eating so much air.

6. French Fries

It’s a FACT that French people have lower blood pressure and cholesterol than Americans. Obviously, this is because they eat more FRENCH Fries. So the trick is to eat more French Fries. I’m telling you…ya just can’t make this stuff up.

5. Pizza Again

It’s just that good of a diet food. I mean, how many foods do you know that you can dramatically change their calorie content just by how you slice them?

Think about it…let’s say in a normal large pizza, you cut it into 8 pieces. That’s a LOT of calories and you PROBABLY won’t lose weight when you eat the whole thing. But cut that same large pizza into FOUR slices? You’ve just cut your calories in HALF. So when you eat the whole thing, you’re only eating HALF the number of slices. Do the math and you’ll see.

Also, pizza is a round food and everybody knows that round foods have fewer calories than square foods – no corners…duh.

4. Anything That Has Fallen On The Floor

It automatically loses ALL calorie content. This rule only applies, however, if it happens by ACCIDENT. And the dog gets first dibs.

3. Twinkies

Since Twinkies cannot technically be considered food (in a nuclear war, they will outlast even cockroaches), you’re welcome to eat as many of these as you want. They are also VERY valuable for appetite control. Don’t believe me? Eat a dozen of these colon-stoppers and see how your appetite is.

2. Chinese Food

I’m not talking “American” Chinese food with the almond chicken and ginger beef…I’m talking CHINESE Chinese food. And if you’ve been to China and have seen the things hanging in the unrefrigerated shop windows, you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about and why eating those things will help you lose weight FAST…

1. “Sports” Water

In other words, water with that great “sporty” taste of corn syrup, artificial flavor and fresh-squeezed potassium benzoate! In fact, I have to say “kudos” to the corporations who found a way to create a market out of complete BS!… And then lash out for people having to do (GOD FORBID) MORE exercise, to burn off those 60 extra ass-growing calories found in the other guys bottle of stupid sports water. Like just being alive for an extra 45 minutes won’t burn THAT off. Cripes.

Sorry…bit of a tangent there.

CONCLUSION:
If, at this point, you’re still wondering if this is a SERIOUS article, the answer is “yes.” I really, truly, totally believe triple cheeseburgers can be part of a balanced diet…

But only if you’ve got one in each hand.