Anyone know a really GOOD Italian place?

I wish we had better Italian places in Atlanta. And before you start emailing and commenting on the blog, I’m talking about one of those restaurants that you crave, that you can not stop thinking about until you eat there. I really don’t think we have one of those places. Every place you go they have a pasta dish on the menu; the Italian places, like Olive Garden and Provino’s, they are fine but not great, not memorable, not amazing, not… they are just pasta that you did not have to cook.

In Duluth alone, we have over 111 places listed on yellow pages.com but over half are pizza joints, where pasta is an after thought, something that rounds off the menu it seems. Most of the rest are pasta and (insert food type). You rarely find a place that does just pasta or has pasta as there main food.

I know some of you are going to say, what about … Provino’s or Bi Ba’s Italian or Antoneta Bibas or Macaroni Grill. But are they great, do you get cravings, do think that place would be incredible/astounding/unbelievable! I don’t, so if anyone has an idea or place that would be good to try, please tell me.

Road Trip - Charleston Seafood

ROAD TRIP! So the Hubby and I took a trip to Charleston for some friend’s wedding. (Which was a blast and congrats) We get seafood when ever we go to the coast; it is the one thing we have to do! We asked around on Friday night and we were told to go to A.W. Shucks, which thank you guy.
This was the best Seafood I have ever had!

The hubby and I went with a couple that came down with us from Athens, Ga. We took one look at the menu and could not deicide what to get, so all ordered something different and shared, like an episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. The starters were She Crab soup, Calamari and hush puppies. I only eat soup when I am sick, for some reason it only tastes right when I am sick. But that She Crab soup was sooo good! The calamari was good but it was not great. Hush Puppies, I love hush puppies, I wanted to order more.
For the main meal we had shrimp and grits, a fried Market st. platter, crab cakes with stuff shrimp and more fried fish and shrimp. I have nothing bad to say, the food was fantastic.
Coming from Atlanta it was so nice to have good seafood. The price was about 20 dollars a person, which is not bad for all the food we got and the quality. A.W. Shucks is right off market st in the down town area. Please if you are ever in Charleston, try the seafood!