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Eating Around: St. Patrick’s Day and more
 Posted 3/11/2010 5:00:00 PM
Each week, we give you a calendar of upcoming dining events to help you navigate the week’s culinary festivities. This week, it’s Irish-time as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Plus, we’ve got the dish on the inaugural Buckhead Restaurant Week, Inman Park’s equivalent, and the tastiest alternative to beer on St. Paddy’s weekend.
March 6–14
BUCKHEAD RESTAURANT WEEK
The first annual Buckhead Restaurant Week has arrived. Over twenty-five participating restaurants will dish out a prix-fixe, three-course menu including an appetizer, entree and dessert for $25 per person. Menu possibilities include a warm goat cheese custard with pistachios and sweet and sour beets from Market; a sweet potato, mascarpone, and barbeque pecan soup with baked gnocchi and farm chicken confit from Craft; or a Valrhona chocolate cream pie from Aria.
March 8–14
INMAN PARK RESTAURANT WEEK
Thirteen restaurants in Historic Inman Park will participate in this year’s restaurant week to benefit ...
Oxford American’s Southern Food 2010 hits newsstands
Posted 3/9/2010 3:36:00 PM
The sixty-plus-degree weather has made grateful simpletons of us all, as we make any excuse to wander around outside with glazed, happy expressions. But when the temperatures dip again at the end of the week, plan to nestle back inside with a copy of the Oxford American magazine’s new Southern Food 2010 issue, guest-edited by John T. Edge. It crowds some juicy, intelligent prose (and a few poems) between its 127 pages.
Atlanta figures prominently in at least three stories: “This Is Not What You Dream” by Mamie Morgan, a career server who weaves thoughts on the restaurant profession around a meal at Woodfire Grill and her enthrallment with Kevin Gillespie. (Fascinatingly, it’s never even mentioned that Woodfire is in Atlanta—has Gillespie really gotten that famous? And PS, Food & Wine has a few more details about Gillespie’s forthcoming barbecue joint, which is aiming for a November opening.)
John Kessler ...
Getting Delicious with Jim Stacy
Posted 3/8/2010 1:32:00 PM
ATL Food Chatter: March 8, 2010
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Jim Stacy is a colorful Atlanta character whose full-bearded face is well known among Atlanta’s timeless independent restaurants such as the Colonnade and the Beautiful Restaurant in Cascade Heights. Last year, he filmed Get Delicious: Atlanta’s Hidden Restaurant Treasures, which aired on WPBA. And because of the public’s response to the initial project, there may be an opportunity to have more episodes of the program produced.
Get Delicious, which debuted last November 15 and was repeated with some additional footage on February 26, attracted attention for its humorous but informative approach, which was part Monty Python and part 1950s newsreel mixed in with some great onsite interviews by Stacy with chefs, owners, and customers. The program’s co-producers, WPBA’s Jack Walsh and Gordon Ray, directed, shot, ...
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