Kimball House and Paper Plane Among “100 Best Bars in the South”
Decatur Metro | January 23, 2014 | 9:35 am
Two Decatur bars have a place on Southern Living’s recent “100 Best Bars in the South” list. Both Kimball House and Paper Plane found a spot. Of course there are a few ATL bars on the list as well!
The site suggests the following beverages at the two spots:
- Kimball House: Pecan Old Fashioned with Medley Brothers Heritage bourbon and Elliott pecans
- Paper Plane: The Permanent Collection—Fernet-Branca, cognac, Bénédictine herbal liqueur, and bitters
h/t: Eater Atlanta
Photo courtesy of Kimball House
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I see that the bar at the St. Regis is listed. Decatur pioneer Roy Jurdack(sp), owner of the gone-but-not-forgotten Sage on Sycamore, now runs the F&B there.
So here’s a cocktail question: haven’t these things become so darn complicated that it’s just overwhelming? Honestly, I feel that I know a decent bit about booze, but the average specialty cocktail description at Leon’s (for example) almost always contains multiple ingredients that I’ve never heard of. Just so hard to know what you’re actually ordering.
Yep. That’s why I drink at Trackside.
That and the various restraining orders…
AMB for the win!
Bah. Two is not “various”.
Yes, but if you go out for cocktails, the complication is someone else’s problem. You get to enjoy the results without any of the shopping for or making of the special ingredients.
I hear you DEM. Both cocktails sound delicious, but I’ve often realized I’m just as happy drinking my standards, like an old fashioned, sazerac, mojito, or negroni. That and the average price for special ones is $12+ nowadays.
Don’t specifically go to Flora-Bama for a bushwacker unless you’re there to toss some mullet or make a phone call at the funky stateline phone booth. The bushwacker originated at the Sandshaker in Pensacola Beach and they’re boozy…
Flora Bama!! In the late 80’s, I broke in my fake ID at the Flora Bama. I vividly remember in 1988, drinking a Bud and the whole room singing along to “I’m going straight to hell.” Now my kid goes to 2nd grade with Kevin Kinney’s granddaughter in Decatur! God, I’m getting old.
Nice! As some say, it’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
We should be so lucky!
Both were also listed and reviewed in “Ten Inviting Drink Dens” in the February/March issue of Garden & Gun (awesome magazine BTW)
Yup, Garden & Gun is awesome.
If anyone else besides me was wondering if Garden & Gun is a real magazine, I checked it out and it’s real. I guess “Garden” makes me think of older ladies in sun visors and gardening gloves. “Gun” makes me think of big, burly middle-aged guys in red plaid jackets holding a rifle. Couldn’t see the overlap. But here’s what editor (a woman) says: “I am often asked about the title of the magazine, particularly from folks who have not read the magazine yet. The simplest explanation that I can offer is that it is a metaphor for the South—its land, the people, their lifestyle, and their heritage.” Rebecca Wesson Darwin, President and CEO, Garden & Gun
When this magazine first was published, apparently they sent out a free issue to potential subscribers because we got one unsolicited. My first reaction was, “Wow, these people really have missed their target audience with me,” since I’m an accomplished plant-ignorer and non-hunter. (And actually, even as I held it in my hands, I did wonder whether it was a real magazine or some kind of very expensive joke.)
I read the magazine and found the photography lush and the writing very good, while remaining mystified by the name. (Thank you for the explanation, BTW.) But, I didn’t subscribe because I just couldn’t bring myself to buy a magazine with the word “gun” in the title, even though I am not particularly anti-gun in general.
It’s basically a hipper Southern Living. It’s quite good.
I bought it once a couple years ago when H Harper Station made their front cover for 50 best southern bars. It’s a handy list of places in case you happen to be in the area:
http://gardenandgun.com/article/50-best-southern-bars
It’s a niche publication, but like many magazines, I’ve seen a couple interesting items the couple times I’ve leafed through it. That’s how I learned about the book On the Run by David Benedetto (I’m highly addicted to fishing.)
Of course it is. It is for us Southerners who appreciate the land and our (sadly dying and diluted) culture. I have been a subscriber almost since its inception. I wouldn’t expect many in Decatur to understand it. I get many a comment on its presence in my home. This is how I know who to invite back to my next party and who not to invite back
I like a bar that serves hard drinks to men who want to get drunk fast, and without a bunch of characters hangin’ around to give the joint “atmosphere.”
The list includes bars in Missouri, Arkansas, Maryland, and D.C. All slave states, but not quite all “southern.” I guess it serves Southern Living well to have the widest possible definition of the South.
Actually, none of those is a slave state. In fact, slavery was abolished in the U.S about 150 years ago. There was a war and everything. I’m surprised you didn’t hear about it.
BOOM!
The border states that were slave states but never seceded from the Union are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. If I hadn’t traveled several times through the inland portion of the Delmar peninsula, I wouldn’t have known that even Delaware was part of the old South. On both sides of the state line, it’s still rural and Southern feeling, tons of tiny Baptist churches, chicken farms, old houses with sagging, big porches, isolated, Southern accents.
I once spent three years driving around the south, interviewing southern authors. I came to understand that in general, southerners think that the true south ends at the northern border of whatever state they happened to have been born in.
Or in some instances, the northern border of the next county.
+100000.
I think you’ve been schooled, Cali.
Please don’t start all of this, everyone. It’s a large region with a lot of variety. For the record:
Maryland is both southern and part of the Mid-Atlantic. It’s south of the Mason-Dixon and if you want to hear pockets of older accents, go to the Eastern Shore (basically the lowlands), St. Mary’s, or to the Catoctin Mountains in the western portion. You’ll also find a lot of southern cultural influences.
DC is also southern and Mid-Atlantic. Listen to Diane Rehm for a sample of the old DC accent with its mild drawl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-nrgVVHGU
It was more non-Rhotic (softened R’s at the end of certain words, typical of many port cities along the Eastern seaboard). There are 2 DC’s: the government (contractors from elsewhere) and the locals. I went to high school on the Virginia side of the Potomac. Some would also say Virginia isn’t southern, either, but they’ve obviously never lived there. Even Jason Sudeikis (from the Alexandria area) can be twangy.
How about we not try to define ourselves in a box, live our lives, and get back to talking cocktails?
Nonsense. This crowd loves to pontificate and debate authenticity in almost any context. Besides, this is precisely the kind of topic that can serve to vent built-up acid that might otherwise get sprayed all over tree roots over on the other thread. And I gotta say, when I saw Maryland and Missouri on the list, my first thought was, “Do what?” Of course, I grew up where anybody north of Macon was typically considered not quite the same as us.
And I’m done! When all of this is over, I’m going to the beach for a couple days to forget I’ve ever seen a tree.
What’s it called again, the gnat line?
Yes, the gnat line. I grew up far south of it, completely oblivious that people anywhere lived any other way. Now, visiting there in the summertime drives me insane. I don’t know how people stand it. (The gnats, I mean.)
The interesting thing to me is that there are some MD/VA accents that almost sound Canadian (i.e. the way Canadians say “about”).
I’ve heard it said that a New Orleans accent is more akin to a Brooklyn accent than a Louisiana accent. However, the one time I thought I heard that kind of accent in New Orleans, I asked, and the person was from…..New York City.
You’re right. I met a girl from NOLA and thought for a long time she was from NJ or NY. She was an Nth generation NOLA native.
Tried Kimball house the other night. It was nice. Very urbane. We had a drink and then went over to Mac McGee’s where we could relax.