S3 Ep7- Atlanta Eats, The Thursday Night Maitre’D, Restaurants are Dying, Open Invite to Mike’s Birthday!

by: Mike Miranti

Welcome to our 60th Episode!!

• Quick Shoutout to Savannah Peterson(@SavIsSavvy) for holding down the fort and being incredible on last weeks pod
• Tom just got back from Atlanta and shares his meal highlights but its an incomplete list because he didn’t go to Magic Palace
• Food News!!!
• Salt Bae Burger is the anti-Guy Fieri because it’s a way 1 ticket to No-Flavortown(link)
• The American Restaurant is on Life Support(link)
• I officially have 1 foot out the door of restaurants to begin his new career, but I’d still like to work a light amount of service once a week
• You can check out my medium article here
• Were any successful restauranteurs created from 2008-2020? Major Food Group (Carbone, Dirty French, The Pool, etc;) was founded in 2010, they might be the one

What Are We Drinking Tonight?

Mike’s Cocktail: The Gold Rush

• 2 oz Bourbon
• .5 oz Honey Syrup
• .5 Lemon Juice
  Shake vigorously and pour over a large rock, garnish with lemon peel

Tom’s Cocktail:Cynarino

• 2 oz Cynar
• Seltzer
  This is a mixed drink, not a cocktail, pour in a collins glass over ice and garnish with a lemon wedge