The Kingfisher Cafe September 16, 2007
Posted by Conrad Hubbard in : The Chip , trackback
Tonight was a fairly pleasant evening, despite my current circumstances. The temperature here in Stone Mountain was only 69 degrees (according to AccuWeather), and I decided to go out for the evening. I went to a local eatery called The Kingfisher Cafe, which I had driven past numerous times with growing curiosity, but never visited. Actually, I did visit the place once, with my estranged wife and the kids, when it was called Geegaws Eatery and was a very different place. I still have a picture somewhere of Deva playing with this giant blowup microphone thing they had there, which was literally as tall as she was. I’ll try to post it here at some point. Anyway, we only ate at Geegaws once, and it is gone. I think I like the new place better.
The Kingfisher Cafe serves beer and wine, and they have a menu with offerings for every time of the day. I chose the roasted red pepper hummus “appetizer” and it was really good. One of the other patrons, at another table (a woman who I overheard ran a local flower shop, and whose dinner partner was a tall, athletic man who looked like he had to be a basketball player), even suggested to the waitress that management should package up the hummus in containers for takeout. I heartily agree!
Anyway, it was a pleasant evening on the restaurant’s front deck, drinking a couple of Peronis and eating a hummus plate, complete with pepperoncinis, red pepper, pita and some sort of greens. I was overwhelmed by a powerful sense of nostalgia as I recalled little Deva playing around on the stage in the corner of the previous place, while I ate some sort of deli-style sandwich with my wife Rachel and her other daughter Kira. Though my wife is gone, I was transported back to a happier time, and that combined with good food and the cool night air was nice. All things considered, it was a little bit of peaceful reminiscence among strangers whose lives seemed happier than mine.
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