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Bill Addison
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Bill Addison
Food Editor & Restaurant Critic
Bill Addison became Atlanta magazine's dining editor and restaurant critic in January 2009. He began his food-writing career at Creative Loafing in Atlanta in 2002 and has since been a food critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and lead restaurant critic at the Dallas Morning News. He's been nominated twice for a James Beard Foundation award (including a nod for [our July 2010 barbecue cover package][1]) and has won several Association of Food Journalists awards.
Dinner series kickoff included three exquisite pasta courses
On Friday evening Storico Fresco, the back-to-the-future pasta shop in Buckhead, held its first popup event. Owner Michael Patrick conceived of the new dinner series as a more immediate and intimate way to introduce pasta fans to regional, often obscure Italian dishes—his abiding obsession. He partnered with chef David Kanter, an alum of New York’s Le Bernardin who was classmates with Eli Kirshtein at the Culinary Institute of America, to execute the meal while Patrick discussed the origin of the dishes with guests.
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He'll leave his position as Empire State South's executive chef by year's end
Ryan Smith, Empire State South’s executive chef, will leave his position by the end of 2013 to join as a partner in the forthcoming Staplehouse, conceived by Ryan and Jen Hidinger. Smith’s fiancé and Ryan Hidinger’s sister, Kara Hidinger (currently at Abattoir), will also be a partner in the restaurant. The team hopes to have the restaurant open by the end of the year; they’ve already filed a letter of intent on a building in the Old Fourth Ward/Inman Park area.
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Daniel Porubiansky will be a partner in Century House Tavern
Last week Bacchanalia's chef-owners Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison announced that David “Andy” Carson would be promoted from his longtime position as chef de cuisine to executive chef. That meant its current head chef, Daniel Porubiansky, would be moving on.
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The Buckhead store is spare (for now), but the pastas are exquisite
Last spring, frontline food lovers like the Blissful Glutton started praising the pasta wonders of Michael Patrick, a chef, sommelier, and Italophile who had taken frequent trips to Italy over the last six years researching obscure recipes. He’d just started his business, Storico Fresco, selling his fresh and dried handmade pastas through the Farm Mobile and at farmers markets throughout the metro area. I tried them first last June, after reading the piece my colleague Christiane Lauterbach had penned for the magazine’s August issue. I was cooking for a friend’s birthday party and bought three filled pastas: bertu, filled pork sausage, homemade ricotta, parmesan, and grana padano cheese; cjalsons, stuffed with figs, raisins, smoked ricotta, and herbs and finished with a ridged edge; and pi fasacc, a specialty of Lombardy made to resemble a baby wrapped in a papoose, flavored with taleggio, grana padano, ricotta, and herbs.
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Over fried chicken, biscuits, sausage gravy, grits, and a half-order of blueberry waffles at One Eared Stag yesterday, I caught up with blogger extraordinaire Adam Roberts, the Amateur Gourmet. We first met early last year when Roberts was in town researching his new book, Secrets of the Best Chefs—though Roberts started his blogging career in Atlanta in 2004. His book's official release date is November 13, but Roberts was in town this past weekend for Taste of Atlanta, and tonight Empire State South is hosting a four-course dinner for Roberts that includes a copy of the book.
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Watershed on Peachtree opened at the end of May. Why did I wait so long to review it? I wanted to give the restaurant time to properly settle. We ran a re-review of Watershed in Decatur in February 2011, when the menu transition between new executive chef Joe Truex and his predecessor, Scott Peacock, still felt schizophrenic. And a lunch after Watershed on Peacthree first opened in Buckhead didn’t wow (messy, jumbled vegetable plate; crabby shrimp burger with the squidgy texture of overcooked egg whites). I decided to give it some time, and I’m glad I did. Now that the kitchen has found its rhythms, Truex’s unorthodox but smart approach to Southern cooking has synchronized—the food bounces between tradition and modernism but the quality is consistent.
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As I’ve mentioned previously in print, Downtown restaurants depress me on two levels. There’s little of quality for those of us who work here: BLT Steak can deliver a memorable meal but it’s a splurge; Alma Cocina makes me happiest as a destination for drinking and lighter bites like fried avocado taquitos; and occasionally I’ll meander down to Calypso Cafe for jerk chicken or goat curry. [UPDATE: As mentioned in the comments below, I'm also a fan of Paul Luna's Bohemian charmer Lunacy Black Market.] Once a year, I’ll hit Ted’s Montana Grill for a salad and (one of my vices) chili cheese fries. That about concludes the extent of the area’s culinary appeal.
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“I just bought a one-way ticket to Ho Chi Minh City; I leave in January,” Angus Brown told me on the phone yesterday. The chef of late-night East Atlanta sensation Octopus Bar (a place I very much like) says he’s taking advantage of some learning opportunities in Asia to hone his skills before he returns to Atlanta in August of 2013. He'll be back to Octopus Bar but also has his sights set on opening his own restaurant.
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The renaissance of Southern cooking, the rise of the chef-owner restaurants, the global culinary riches at the city’s periphery and in the suburbs: These all get plenty of play in Atlanta, but when it comes down to it, this town really loves steakhouses.
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