Kitchen open when others close.

Kennesaw doesn’t have many real late-night food options — once 11pm hits, most kitchens go cold. Pizookah Lounge runs the full menu until 2am on weeknights and 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. Not a "small bar bites" menu — the same crispy wings, Imperial lobster tails, marinated jerk lamb chops, whole red snapper, soul rolls, and chef’s fried rice that we serve at dinner.

We get the post-game crowd, the after-work-on-Friday crowd, the third-date crowd, the "what’s open at 1am" Google searchers, and a steady stream of regulars who know we kept the kitchen open while they finished their drinks. Hookah, cocktails and craft beer the whole time — kitchen never goes quiet.