Atlanta Restaurant Reviews, Cooking Techniques, Food Musings
Posted in restaurant review on Aug 16th, 2010
Life has been a blurry mess lately. It turns out that all of us at Foodie Atlanta headquarters managed to change jobs in the last couple of months. Sure, it’s not that we stopped eating well, it’s just that we haven’t had the time to sit down and write something at least mildly substantive and [...]
Posted in restaurant review on Jul 6th, 2010
I live, to use the Atlanta vernacular, OTP. And as much as I take perverse pleasure in decrying the food culture of suburbia, and in what is an egregious example of the contradictory nature of man, it turns out that I periodically succumb to the very demons that I try to exorcise.
To put it mildly, [...]
Posted in restaurant review on Jun 27th, 2010
I have a checkered past with Vinings. Vinings straddles the perimeter, and in doing so, combines the best and worst of both worlds. There are a lot of faux-fine dining restaurants in this area–restaurants far more interested in providing a convincing illusion of fine dining than taking the pride and effort to produce serious food. [...]
Posted in restaurant review, thoughts on Jun 13th, 2010
Sundays are always hard for me. Not only does the realization that soon enough I’ll have to go back to work and with it, reality will once again set in, but my dining options are severely limited. For most, Sunday is a day of rest. And for many restaurants, particularly the good ones, you’re lucky [...]
Posted in restaurant review on Jun 8th, 2010
One word review: No!
Posted in restaurant review on Jun 7th, 2010
Avoiding Italian restaurants is not a bad strategy for eating out in general. Third only to Mexican and Chinese cuisines, it’s hard to imagine a more bastardized culinary tradition. Every time that I hear an Olive Garden commercial boast the virtues of the Olive Garden Culinary Institute of Tuscany, I wince. And while you’re rolling [...]
Posted in restaurant review on May 29th, 2010
“I need to start going to lesser restaurants” I told myself as I walked to my car after dining at Rathbun’s.
Chef Kevin Rathbun is one of those chefs that has seems to enjoy both street cred and a legion of fine dining enthusiasts–sometimes a fickle and persnickety crowd. People have been asking me, for what [...]
Posted in restaurant review on May 23rd, 2010
In the heart of Inman Park is Parish, a beautiful creole / new south restaurant and market that has been on Foodie Atlanta’s radar for quite a while. A restaurant in Inman Park has very high expectations to meet. This is an area of Atlanta with a disturbingly high density of great restaurants, and judgment [...]