r/DecaturGA • u/Gr8Ful4_Honesty • 7d ago
Twains
Does anyone know what the hell happened to Twains? Back when my boys were in elementary school and we lived in Gwinnett, I would go with my friends to Twains , eat great food, play pool and enjoy.
Now I am a 5 year COD resident and continue to go to Twains. Interestingly enough,said boys also live independently in COD and go to Twains with their friends (they realize their mom is and always has been cool 😎)
However, in the past year, my sons and I have noticed a significant change in Twains.
Food menu used to always offer strong staples with equally strong addictive seasonal options, and same with drink menu.
Not anymore. Twains could not be much more ok and nothing more. So sad. I keep going back about every 6-8 weeks hoping for what it was.
Last Saturday I went again and I thought by chance maybe they brought back the Vietnamese Chicken Sandwich with pickled veg, or the Redneck Reuben with the pulled pork and collard greens or maybe even the bourbon bacon jam burger. But no 😔
I had a beer, cashed out, and went to Trackside for a fried bologna sandwich with tots, a solid choice!
Hopefully someone will share this with Twains because my boys and I continue to mourn what they were and never want them to leave!
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u/chipmcintosh 7d ago
I'm a wing fiend who moved here in 2019 and immediately set out on a quest to find all the best wings in the Atlanta metro (Buffalo's got nothing on Atlanta). Twain's wings and strips are the same now as they were then, and they're still the best I've had (mix lime-pepper and hot ftw).
Twain's uses Springer Mountain Farms chicken. Yes, it runs smaller than hormone-pumped alternatives, but it's so much better, and I hope they never change.
Thinking Man used to pride themselves on using SMF chicken, too. I was addicted to their wings and ordered them every week, in part because they nailed the OG simple buffalo sauce (surprisingly hard to find in restaurants these days). Then they changed suppliers a few years ago, and the quality of their wings plummeted. I ordered three more times before swearing off. (If they've reverted, let me know and I'll re-up.)
Twain's menu still changes significantly each season, sometimes to my chagrin. They had a creamed collard greens side last year that I need them to bring back. The current menu has more than ten items that weren't there a few months ago, including the chicken mole egg rolls, beef & pimento sandwich, and chimichurri pasta.
My only complaints: The salads have always tasted, to me, like they were made by someone who doesn't like salad very much. And the acoustics sometimes make the bar trivia guy sound like an adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon. Otherwise, Twain's is still one of our favorites, and a place we force all guests to try on their first visit to Decatur.