Lime shortage hits Atlanta restaurants
If your guacamole tastes funny or your Cinco de Mayo Corona doesn't come with a lime today, there's a reason. Heavy rains and disease in Mexico's lime fields have caused a serious lime shortage. Mexican drug cartels hijacking lime trucks and blackmailing farmers are not helping either. Exports are down, and prices have skyrocketed.
Q&A with Ritz-Carlton Buckhead’s Todd Richards
ATL Food Chatter: October 3, 2011
(To receive the Chatter and other culinary tidbits directly in your inbox, sign up for our weekly dining newsletter)Chef Todd Richards appeared on NBC’s Today Show last week, highlighting three of the new dishes he is featuring on the fall menu at the Cafe at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead. Since joining the Ritz’s team as chef de cuisine in late 2010, Richards has devised a menu that divides Southern flavors into two camps: “traditional” and “modern.” Richards, a native Chicago, first arrived in Atlanta 20 years ago to work at the Four Seasons under chef Darryl Evens. After a stint at the Ritz-Carlton Atlanta Downtown, he departed Atlanta in 2003 to work at other prestigious properties like the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach and the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Richards returned to Atlanta in 2008, where he has earned kudos for his work at One Flew South and Rolling Bones BBQ.
“Why Can’t the Lawrence Keep a Chef?”
Open for less than a year, the Lawrence—a highly anticipated Midtown restaurant and bar by Top FLR veteran Darren Carr and Dinner Party Atlanta founder Patrick La Bouff—is already on its third chef. Shane Devereux (also from Top FLR and its sister gastropub/club Sound Table) was the opening chef. Then Jonathan St. Hilaire, previously a pastry chef and owner of the now-defunct Bakeshop, took the reigns in November 2012. Now, St. Hilaire is gone, and Jeff Sigler, who worked alongside Richard Blais at Element, is in charge.
Cakes and Ale, Cardamom Hill nominated for Bon Appetit’s best new restaurants
Bon Appétit has released their list of the top 50 Best New Restaurant Nominees for 2012. Among the nationwide search, they've included two Atlanta restaurants: Cakes and Ale and Cardamom Hill.
“Food, Drinks & Rock n’ Roll” chef Nathan Lippy headed to Atlanta Food + Wine Festival this weekend
There's a lot to love about Florida chef Nathan Lippy. The tatted up, mohawked young chef was home schooled by his mom where Julia Child and Food Network stars, including Jamie Oliver and Emeril Lagasse served as teachers. On his popular interactive Ustream cooking show "Food, Drinks and Rock n' Roll Live!," he quotes from "The Matrix" and "Swingers," takes tweets from viewers and mocks his processed food addicted, brussels sprouts-fearing producer nicknamed DiGiorno. During his regular visits to "Today," the Culinary Institute of America graduate teaches the chardonnay-swilling Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb how to reinvent ramen noodles and create a traditional panna cotta dessert made with milk soaked in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.
Arianne Fielder leaves Seven Lamps, starts at Article 14 next week
Arianne Fielder, head “mixtress” and beverage manager at Seven Lamps has left the Buckhead establishment, Eater Atlanta reports. She will take over as head mixologist and beverage manager at Midtown’s Article 14 next week. This change comes at a notable time, as Article 14’s sister restaurant, Olmsted, recently decided to become a private events space, leaving its “power lunches” to Article 14, which also serves dinner.
Eating Around: Christmas
Every week, we give you a detailed calendar of upcoming dining events to help you navigate the weekend’s culinary festivities. Christmastime is here, so we’re dedicating this week’s edition to restaurants with special Christmas and Christmas Eve offerings, giving you a nice alternative to kitchen insanity or the standard glazed ham.
Gio’s Chicken Amalfitano not open quite yet
At the end of November, Giovanni Di Palma will open his second restaurant in Atlanta, Gio's Chicken Amalfitano. Di Palma's first restaurant, Antico Pizza, has been a genuine phenomenon in Atlanta's dining scene. Gio's is the first step in an ambitious piazza-styled development that Di Palma has planned for the area immediately surrounding Antico. We figure it's going to be a big deal. Here's the general idea via press release:
Looking back, a review of 2013
As the saying goes, you win some, and you lose some. This year we saw famed mixologists leave their longtime outposts, award-winning chefs open new “it” spots, and the restaurant community band together to help one of their own. As we welcome in the new year, we pause to take a look back at what happened in 2013.
A look ahead to restaurant openings in 2011
The recent spate of closings (Dynamic Dish, Shaun’s, and, just announced today, Vickery’s in Midtown) and the modest pace of openings made 2010 one of the bleaker years for Atlanta’s recent dining scene history. So let’s look to the future with a brief roundup of the restaurants announced for 2011:
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