Food Chatter: A preview of the Lawrence

Last Sunday I had an opportunity to preview the Lawrence, the forthcoming Midtown restaurant from the creators of the popular supper club series Dinner Party Atlanta and the team behind Top Flr and the Sound Table. The Sunday Supper dinner, which may become a regular event when the Lawrence officially opens its doors in early-to-mid February, started at 4:30 p.m. and guests served themselves from the kitchen, family style.

What’s next for the King of Pops?

The city’s reigning frozen-treat royalty, King of Pops, has been dabbling in other arenas lately. In October KoP founder Steven Carse and his brother, Nick, rebranded themselves as Queso Kings and held a pop-up quesadilla lunch at the Lawrence. Then in December, they turned their team into “Tree Elves,” delivering locally sourced Christmas trees to Atlantans (even those in high-rises), and then retrieving and replanting them after the holiday. What’s next for the enterprising Brothers Carse? Steven let us in on some of their plans:

Q&A with new Parish chef Joe Schafer

ATL Food Chatter: July 26, 2010 (To receive the Chatter and other culinary tidbits directly in your inbox, sign up for our weekly dining newsletter)Joe Schafer, the former sous chef at Midtown’s Tap, has recently taken over as executive chef at Inman Park’s Parish Foods and Goods. (Both Tap and Parish are owned by Concentrics Hospitality.) Shafer, a twenty-nine-year-old native of Senoia, Georgia, is a 2001 honors graduate of the culinary program of the Art Institute of Atlanta who also worked as sous chef in several other local restaurants including the Globe and Rainwater. He describes his cooking as “rustic Southern, lightened and refined with European technique.” Shafer says that he will be lightening up Parish’s menu while staying “rustic and approachable.” He took some time out via e-mail to share some of his plans for Parish and why he loves going to Asian restaurants:

Online review: Pallookaville, Avondale Estates

I’m studying the drink section of the carnival-meets-deli menu at Pallookaville Fine Foods, wrapping my head around the list of over thirty soda fountain syrup flavors. Some options sound like death by sweetness (butterscotch, marshmallow), others intrigue (including papaya and especially tiger’s blood, which combines watermelon, strawberry, and coconut). But finally I fall back on a favorite treat from the rare soda fountains—already a dying breed in the 1980s—that I encountered in my youth.

Stop by Harold’s, check out the Atlanta Streetcar progress

As we've observed, while the Atlanta Streetcar offers huge future potential for shops and restaurants in the Edgewood/Auburn Ave. corridor, at the present, it's creating, if not nightmares, certainly a less-than-dreamy business environment.

Esquire’s New Chefs to Watch to join Todd Richards at the Ritz

The Ritz Carlton Buckhead didn't waste any time organizing a celebration for The Cafe' chef Todd Richards, who has just been named one of "Four New Chefs To Watch" by esteemed Esquire magazine dining critic John Mariani in the November issue of the mens' magazine. Alas, it will be a working lunch and dinner for Richards. On Monday, November 14, the Ritz Cafe' will offer foodies a chance to taste samples from all four of Mariani's latest anointed chefs when Richards is joined in the kitchen by Mariani's other picks, Scott Anderson of Elements in Princeton, N.J., Tyler Brown of Nashville's Capital Grille and Sachin Chopra, the chef at All Spice in San Mateo, California.

7 restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner

Maybe you’re too tired to haul a turkey from the store and into your oven or you don’t want to dirty the kitchen before Black Friday. Either way, you have choices this coming Thanksgiving. Below are seven restaurants that will be open next week. Reservations are highly recommended.

Spice Route Supper Club Opening Cardamom Hill Restaurant

Thrilling news for Indian food lovers: Asha Gomez, the creator of Spice Route Supper Club, is going into the restaurant business. Her place, called Cardamom Hill, is scheduled to open this fall at 1700 Northside Drive, in the same Berkeley Heights shopping center as a Little Azios outpost. (She’s taking over the former space of My Girlfriend’s Kitchen.)If you’ve been to a Spice Route dinner, you’ll know what makes this venture particularly exciting: Gomez concentrates her cooking on the specific flavors and dishes of her native Kerala, the southwestern-most state of India. Kerala has for centuries been a major port of the European-African-Asian spice trades, with longstanding Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu culinary traditions that often overlap.

Residents seek to attract restaurants, grocery stores along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail

On September 20 from 9 a.m. to noon, neighborhoods in Southwest Atlanta will host iSWAT Development Day, a collection of speeches and bus tours through the area that highlight redevelopment initiatives in an effort to attract chefs, restaurateurs, and grocers. Participants will meet at 884 Murphy Avenue.

Prohibition’s former head bartender to join KSM’s Craft Izakaya

Prohibition's former head bartender, Thomas McGuire, will be Nate Shuman’s second barkeep in command at Craft Izakaya, the sushi and yakitori spot in Krog Street Market. General manager Richard Tang says the three of them will create a playful beverage list that explores the molecular side of drinks and includes Asian spices and herbs.

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