The Roundabout, Milton, GA

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 · Issue No. 62 · 7 min read

Taco Nest scored a 72. Its cooler was running at 65 degrees.

Plus: the new Deerfield board meets and goes straight into closed session, and what 31 of you said about the Verizon land.

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In this issue

Two health scores. Taco Nest Taqueria took a 72 and a follow-up visit on Sept. 30, with a cooler found running at 65 degrees. The Union took an 82.

The Deerfield board. It met for the first time Tuesday, elected nobody, and ended the night in a closed session on real estate.

Your answers. 31 of you on the Verizon land: the biggest group wants the park plan settled before anything is sold.

Still waiting. Two camera answers the city owes us, five days on. And the Big Creek Greenway trail, proposed in 2010, is finally being built on Cogburn Road.

And. A correction about Scouts BSA, Cambridge’s week in three sports, everything open in Milton through Saturday, and Crabapple Fest nine days out.

Top of Mind

the one thing to know this morning

Two Milton restaurants scored below an A this month, and one of them has a county follow-up visit coming.

Taco Nest Taqueria on Highway 9 scored 72 and a C on Sept. 16, after a 96 in February and a 100 last August. The inspector measured cooked steak at 75 degrees and birria sauce at 79 sitting on a counter, chorizo, cooked chicken and cheese dip between 50 and 53 in a reach-in cooler, and that cooler itself running at 65 degrees rather than 41 or below. Food that had been warm more than four hours was thrown out, the rest went to the walk-in, and the cooler was pulled from use until it is repaired. Two other things: the manager on duty could not answer the inspector’s food safety questions, and the kitchen’s cleanup supplies used a bleach that is not approved to kill norovirus. A follow-up inspection is set for Sept. 30.

The Union Restaurant on Providence Road scored 82 and a B on Sept. 21, after two straight 91s. Six items were holding too warm: ham, chicken and sliced cheese in a counter ice bath at 54 and 55 degrees, feta and cut tomatoes in the prep top cooler between 46 and 50, against a 41-degree limit. The inspector marked that one a repeat and the manager threw the food out. Food prepared on site sat uncovered in two reach-in coolers, and squeeze bottles and seasoning containers had no labels. All three were fixed while the inspector was still in the building, and no follow-up was ordered.

Every score is public. We list the current grade and the inspection date on each restaurant’s page in our Milton dining directory, and the state’s own reports show what the inspector wrote at Taco Nest and The Union.

Reader poll · One tap

Do you check a restaurant’s health inspection score before you go?

Always, I look it up
Sometimes, if I am unsure
Never, I go on reputation
I did not know the scores were public

Tap once and you’ll see how everyone else voted. Results Sunday.

The Deerfield Board

The seven people Council appointed to drive Deerfield’s redevelopment met for the first time Tuesday afternoon and ended the meeting by going into a closed session on real estate. Staff and the public were sent home first, and the board was told there would be nothing to announce afterward.

Nothing was decided in the open part and no chair was elected. What is worth filing away is what this board can do: issue bonds, borrow, buy and lease land, and cut a developer’s property taxes by taking title to a site and passing the savings along. It cannot levy taxes, pass laws or take property by condemnation.

Next up is a tour of Deerfield on Thursday, Oct. 8, then a meeting at 4:30, with elections and bylaws on the agenda. The city posts the recordings on its YouTube channel.

Tuesday’s poll asked what should become of the Verizon acreage the parks do not need, and whether private developers should end up with any of it. 31 of you answered. 13 said wait until the park plan is set, 12 said keep all 51 acres public, 4 said sell what the parks will not use, and 2 were not sure. Any sale would be this board’s kind of question, and it would still need its own Council vote.

The Cameras

Sunday we promised you the city’s answers to two more Flock questions: whether any Milton camera captures live or recorded footage instead of a still photograph, and whether the police have priced additional cameras with the vendor. The city manager handed both to the police on Sept. 18, and the department’s new public information officer told us the rest would follow this week. Nothing has come. We will print it when it does, and every answer the department has given us so far is posted in full with our first story.

The Scoreboard

every game, both schools, the night it finishes

Flag football. Milton lost 13-7 to Greenbrier, ranked ninth in the country, at the Corky Kell and Dave Hunter Classic on Saturday. Cambridge lost 21-0 to South Forsyth the day before.

Softball. Milton lost 13-12 at Lanier. Cambridge had the better week: 13-1 over Blessed Trinity, 9-6 at Buford on Monday, then a 1-0 loss to Cherokee on Tuesday.

Volleyball. Milton lost 3-1 at Dunwoody. Cambridge beat Northview 2-0 and Sprayberry 2-1 at home.

Football. Cambridge won 28-22 at Centennial on Friday.

Tonight. Cambridge softball is at Blessed Trinity at 5. Cambridge volleyball hosts Dunwoody at 5:30 and Walker at 6:30. Every schedule and score →

Correction

what we got wrong, and what replaces it

Tuesday’s issue said a Milton student is working through “the Boy Scouts” to get his bluebird boxes installed. The troop-level program has been Scouts BSA since 2019, the national organization is Scouting America, and girls have been in both Scouts BSA and Cub Scouts that whole time. A Milton troop committee chair wrote in to tell us, and he was right. Every correction we have run is on our corrections page.

The Agenda

public meetings this week and next

The Drive

roads, closures, and what to route around

GA 400 northbound at Windward Parkway has a right lane blocked for construction. It has been in GDOT’s feed every morning this week, so plan on it rather than around it.

The Greenway connection is being built. A city contractor started work this month on Cogburn Road near King’s Ridge Christian School and St. Francis High School, the newest piece of the multi-use trail meant to get Milton to the Big Creek Greenway on foot or by bike. The route runs from Bethany Bend south along Cogburn to Webb Road, then east to Morris. Council awarded the construction contract to Wilson Construction on Jan. 5, and the city’s own project page puts the full job at about $10.4 million in federal, TSPLOST and local money, a figure the page says was last updated in 2022. A regional transportation study first proposed the connection in 2010.

Milton Weekend

the two or three things worth planning around

Thursday, September 24

Friday, September 25

Saturday, September 26

See the full Milton calendar → · Got an event? Submit it

Illustration of Crabapple Fest: rows of white vendor tents down a closed street past a red-brick corner building, bunting strung overhead, families with strollers and a wagon, a green food truck, and a golden retriever on a leash

Nine days out. Crabapple Fest takes over downtown Crabapple on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 to 5: vendors down a closed Crabapple Road, food, music and the KidZone. Our guide has the four free shuttle lots on Birmingham Highway, where the accessible parking is, and why leaving a car on a neighborhood street is a bad idea.

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