Augusta—For those who’re leaping on the Masters golf cart and linking over to Augusta for this 12 months’s event, that little golf contest down Georgia method, know that there’s extra to eat than egg salad and pimento cheese sandwiches, the enduring treats served on the iconic golf course alongside these iconic azalea-lined fairways.
Up to now 12 months or two, some nice new eating places have opened across the Backyard Metropolis—a nickname given due to Augusta’s profuseness of private and non-private gardens—however you received’t want a inexperienced jacket to attempt the most recent culinary samplings across the metropolis. Simply carry a hearty urge for food, make use of your sense of gastronomic journey and have loads of time to get pleasure from a spread of Southern staples and worldwide bites, in addition to extra conventional fare of steak and burgers.
Tacocat
Nearly each time I am going to Augusta, I discover myself at a restaurant owned by Frog Hole Group. The most recent providing, Tacocat, follows Frog Hole Tavern, Craft & Vine, Farmhaus Burger, Frog and the Hen, and Pho Ramen-l for excellence alongside Augusta’s artistic food and drinks avenues. Tacocat, open since summer season 2022, is straightforward fare and extra informal than its counterparts of Frog Hole Tavern and Craft & Vine, and is housed in a enjoyable, brightly-hued former carwash full with its authentic storage doorways. Whereas you will get good tacos virtually wherever, these are nice tasting with way more thought and taste put into them in addition to meat, cheese and lettuce to make them stand out in a city brimming of standout eating places. Take your tacos past the atypical and take a look at the shrimp diablo with fried shrmp combined with jicama and hominy slaw or the tangy hen highlighted with jalapeno and pineapple salsa.
Tacos from $4.50 every; brunch from $14. Full bar. 208 tenth St., Augusta. 1-706-842-7800. Go to www.tacocataugusta.com.
Pineapple Ink Tavern
Most likely one of many final belongings you think about you’ll discover in Augusta, Southern to the core with its barbecue, meat-and-threes and grits on each menu, is genuine Cuban meals harking back to Havana and Miami. Proprietor Allan Soto hails from South Florida, so together with his Cuban background got here the inspiration for the restaurant. Assume: Cuban sandwiches, wonderful pulled pork within the lechon asada and scrumptious empanadas. End up with Cuban-inspired desserts of flan or helado, plus robust Cuban espresso and a cigar, though they originate within the Dominican Republic, Honduras or Nicaragua, as Cuban stogies are nonetheless unlawful in the US. Earlier than you ask, sure. You’ll actually discover a mojito on the drinks menu.
Entrees from $12. Brunch entrees from $12. Full bar. 1002 Broad St., Augusta. 1-706-842-4401. Go to www.pineappleinktavern.com.
Soca Vegan Kitchen
Soca Vegan Kitchen, a Trinidadian-style vegan restaurant whose meals can be closely influenced by Indian delicacies, persistently will get five-star rankings on on-line evaluate websites together with Yelp and HappyCow. Owned by mother-daughter staff Georgia Alexander and Diane Francis, it’s turn out to be an Augusta staple for vegans and vegetarians. Few true vegan choices can be found in Augusta, and Soca Vegan Kitchen has crammed the area of interest remarkably properly. A favourite appetizer is pholourie, a fritter made with flour, cut up peas, herbs and curry spices, a dish that’s common in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname. Loads of chickpeas, greens, beans and rice in a wide range of flavorful choices are discovered at Soca Vegan Kitchen and are often locally-sourced.
Platters from $10.95. Curry, potato, rice and soup from $4.95 every. Beer and wine obtainable. 630 Crane Creek Dr., Suite 103, Augusta. 1-706-432-9327. Go to www.socavegankitchen.com.
Munchies Lab
Munchies Lab opened solely in 2022, but it surely’s already created buzz with its completely different tackle on a regular basis dishes. Relatively than clarify in additional element, it’s simpler to present you just a few samples of what the delicacies is like, though the menu modifications about as soon as a month to coincide with what’s obtainable seasonally. Previous bites have included the Mexican Loopy Potato doctored up with steak strips, onions, avocado, cheese and cilantro and the Flaming Roll Sushi-Rito, an actual deal with with fried hen, cream cheese, buffalo ranch and dusted with Sizzling Cheetos. For the hearty urge for food, attempt the DTF Canine, an angus beef scorching canine layered with grilled garlic child shrimp, grilled garlic steak and grilled garlic hen smothered and lined in buffalo sauce, cheese and onions. The underside line is Munchies Lab serves common ol’ consolation meals dressed to the adventurous, scrumptious nines.
Entrees from $10.50. 1102 Walton Means, Suite A, Augusta. 1-706-496-3310. https://www.fb.com/munchieslabaugusta/
Vance’s Bakery Bar
Is your subsequent indulgence in a bakery? A bar? Why not a bakery bar? Vance’s Bakery Bar, within the coronary heart of downtown on James Brown Boulevard, options candy libations created with top-shelf spirits. You must love the tagline: The proof is within the sweets. (Get it?) The desserts, alcohol-infused and ready recent each day in-house, embrace specialties such because the Boozy Banana Pudding, infused with Rumchata and Giffard banana liqueur after which crammed with house-made vanilla wafers and recent bananas or Payton’s Pecan Cobbler, an concoction of freshly baked, heat pecan cobbler infused with Backwoods Pecan Pie Liqueur and served with a small scoop of butter pecan ice cream plopped proper on prime of the drink. The décor is straightforward however elegant, good for a bakery and cocktail lounge combo. Charcuterie boards and cheese plates spherical out the menu for individuals who desire savory bites.
Dessert drinks from $6.50; craft cocktails from $13. 123 James Brown Blvd., Augusta. 1-706-250-3936. Go to www.vancesbakerybar.com.
Manny’s Sports activities Off Broad
Manny’s Sports activities Off Broad is one other new entry in Augusta’s thriving worldwide meals scene, however let’s simply say it’s not your typical sports activities bar or worldwide restaurant. Need Greek? Verify. Strive the Greek burger, a burger-gyro amalgamation with pickled pink onions, tomatoes and mustard tzatziki on a pillowy potato bun with fries. Greek-Cuban? Verify. This one’s made with roasted mojito pork, strips of Greek pork souvlaki, feta, pickled cucumbers and tzatziki mustard on pressed Gambino’s bread with fries. Southern? Sure, ma’am. The smoked pimento meatloaf consists of house-smoked beef with pimento cheese and served with jalapeño mashed potatoes and house-pickled slaw. German? Sure, sir. The Bavarian pretzel is served up with spicy grain mustard and beer cheese. Delicious? All of it, sure.
Entrees, burgers and gyros from $11. Sports activities bar environment with sports activities bar facilities. 215 tenth Avenue, Augusta. 1-404-216-2264. Go to www.mannyssportsoffbroad.com.
Brinkley’s Chop Home
For extra upscale, dressier eating in the course of the Masters, take a really brief drive throughout the Savannah River to North Augusta, simply over the state line in South Carolina. Not open for even a 12 months, Brinkley’s Chop Home has getting rave evaluations on its steaks and seafood from the very starting. For an appetizer, attempt the scallops, because the saltiness of the accompanying prosciutto was good as a complementing taste. I’m a idiot for a caprese salad and wasn’t upset in any respect with my choice with its recent mozzarella. From the farm, fish and fowl menu, select quack, oink or cock-a-doodle-do with duck, chops, or hen. However Brinkley’s is at its coronary heart a particular moo, a steak home, so do attempt the meat, whether or not it’s a Delmonico, ribeye, porterhouse, or filet. Can’t determine? Strive a butcher board with choices that embrace each land and sea creatures. Nice desserts are on the menu, together with chocolate torte and Basque cheesecake.
Entrees $21-107; butcher board $195-325.
Six South Rooftop Bar on the Partridge Inn
The Partridge Inn, an historic lodge within the lovely, leafy Summerhill neighborhood in Augusta, has at all times been extremely touted as probably the most common locations in Augusta in the course of the Masters. The lodge’s beloved rooftop, providing unparalleled views of the Backyard Metropolis accompanied by clouds of spring-blossoming timber, has been newly named Six South and simply opened to the general public within the fall of 2022. As you dine and gaze throughout the colourful metropolis, you may additionally rub elbows with among the golfers who’re enjoying on Augusta Nationwide. The main target at Six South is on seafood, with a number of seafood towers obtainable with a choice of scallop, oyster, crab and shrimp. The way to begin? With the gumbo, made with shrimp and crab or the oyster soup, after which for the principle course, attempt the seared scallops or blackened seafood pasta. With the added incentive of a full bar, it’s simply the place for seafood and cocktails with a view.
Entrees from $22; seafood towers from $55. Full bar. 2110 Walton Means, Augusta. 1-706-737-8888. Go to www.partridgeinn.com.
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