Chow Down Atlanta

About CDA

Chow Down Atlanta is about eating good food, whether it is in Michelin-rated restaurants, or whole-in-the-wall or mom-and-pop joints where literally, everyone knows your name. It is about finding the best place for baguettes, or the freshest persimmons. If you want to know about food in Atlanta then you’ve come to the right place. Bon Ape-tit!

About Chloe Morris

My name is Chloe and I absolutely hate left-overs. Because of this, I have been adept at cooking, take-outs, ordering in, or eating out (but not necessarily in that order). I go to three four different specialty grocery stores in any given food shopping day. I know exactly where to go for any ingredient known to man. I call it an inborn food radar.

I was born into a family of foodies. Ten years ago, I started taking pictures of food as a way of showing (read: making my cousins jealous of) what was eaten at a particular place or event. The bug caught on and what started out as a juvenile prank soon turned into a family tradition — we’d circulate pictures by mail and send menus via fax. These days, digital cameras, email and the internet have replaced film and stamps. It’s all great.

I started blogging in 1996 primarily to chronicle my family travels around the world. I wanted to remember my travel details so I started writing about cities I’ve visited, where I stayed, where I ate, how I got to the hotel from the airport, and so forth. Back then, HTML was just beginning and “blogging” meant having your own web page from Geocities.

I’ve lived in Atlanta almost all my life. I attended and have degrees from both Georgia State University and Southern Polytechnic State University. In my next life, I want to be a chef by education and a foodtv/travel channel celebrity by profession.

Let me know if you’d like me to feature something in particular, have a question about a place, need to know where to find stuff in Atlanta, or just want to chat about food. Email me here: chloe @ chowdownatlanta dot com.