Look Forward to Airport Dining AND Your Vacation, Thanks to HBF Restaurant Options

Summer air travel means tackling the world’s busiest airport when it’s even busier. For a more relaxing start to your vacation or business trip, arrive extra early to allow time to snake through security lines then breathe easy and enjoy the amazing dining options at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Look for the “HBF” logo designating Hojeij Branded Foods restaurants, which include local favorites and celebrity chef-driven locations in Concourses A, B and E. Tempting dining menus and cold beer, cocktails and wines soothe frazzled nerves at table service venues including Atlanta Hawks Bar & Grill, Cat Cora’s Kitchen, Gordon Biersch, LowCountry, P.F. Chang’s, TAP Gastropub and Varasano’s. Goldberg’s Deli offers sit down and to-go. Need to grab and go? Run by Boar’s Head/Piece of Cake, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Great Wraps, Chick-fil-A, Arby’s, Freshen’s Yogurt, Nathan’s or Villa Pizza for healthy or hearty in a hurry. Wendy’s will open on Concourse B this summer, adding another option for fly boys and girls and families with little ones begging for burgers. Ah, seems like that vacay has already begun.

#Foodgram

For the four sisters and a friend who started Food in the Airin 2014, the concept was (and remains) simple. Love food. Love travel. Landmarks and scenery are air-apparent backgrounds with food lifted up in the foreground. As in ketchup-scripted chicken tenders above the 40-yard line. An éclair over the Seine in Paris. An all-American ice cream cone standing attention at Mt. Rushmore. Getting the hang of it? 

#Foodgram

Not everything worth eating is food. Proof in point and photos: Adam Goldberg / A Life Worth Eating. The editor in chief of @driftmag and @ambrosiamagazine presents
eye-popping photos that slice into food, travel and design. Eat up.

Shout Out to Atlanta.About.Com -- Now on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest

Chances are you’ve clicked on About.com when sleuthing out information on various topics and how-tos. The online engine has added an “About Travel” Atlanta-specific section with volumes of useful information for visitors, newcomers and those already well-entrenched in Atlanta ways, means, ins and outs. Click in for freebies and attraction discounts, activity ideas, who’s who and even how to transfer your driver’s license to Georgia if you’ve recently moved here. Which will be your most-used mode to information? Atlanta expert Kate Parham Kordsmeier has everything you need online at Atlanta.About.com, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

Read It and Tweep: TravelGirl Magazine Just Wants to Have Global Fun

  

In its fifth year of publication, Atlanta's own TravelGirl Magazine enthralls women 25-65 who love all things travel related. The magazine covers the senses: sense of humor, sense of adventure, sense to catch Twitter tips (@TravelGirlMag) on the go, and the most important of all, the sense to pack stylish, comfortable shoes.

Sample Tweet: Take time this holiday wknd to plan ur 2013 travels. NOLA is hot: Mardi Gras, Super Bowl, Jazz Fest@TravelgirlSteph will keep us posted!

Move Over Mozart, Chef Kevin Gillespie and Food Fans Are Heading To Vienna and Budapest

Vienna Images from Wikipedia

This time of year when the cold visits Georgia, it’s always nice to dream about what’s coming in the spring and future travels we hope to take during the year. Far off places, new cuisines to discover… we’re getting wistful just thinking about it.  If you’re experiencing some winter wanderlust right now, you’re in luck!

Kevin Gillespie, owner and executive chef at Woodfire Grill in Atlanta, and Tammy Zacks, travel designer and founder of Travel by design, will share their love for travel and gastronomy with other foodies as they lead "A Taste of Austria with Chef Kevin" March 24 - 31.  The culinary journey wines and dines through Michelin-starred and traditional restaurants in Vienna, visits nearby wineries and jaunts over to Budapest. 

Travelers will be well schooled during a cooking class in Vienna's opulent Schoenbrunn Palace.  For information on "A Taste of Austria with Chef Kevin," including a trip itinerary, click here.  Those interested in registering for the trip can click here.  For information on Travel by design and upcoming excursions, visit www.travelbydesigninc.com or call 404-467-0980.

Gute Reise!  Have a good trip!