Tag: Recipes

Maybe it's no surprise that when local fashion designer Abbey Glass entertains, she plans the party around the clothes.

Local designers Hillary Mancini of Peace Design, Jill and Steve McKenzie, and Alison Weidner of outdoor furnishings shop AuthenTEAK get together every other month for game night. Here are the Midwestern comfort food recipes they use when they meet.

Everyone in Atlanta knows King of Pops, the now-iconic local ice pop company founded by Steven and Nick Carse in 2010—but what about King of Crops? It’s the 67-acre, bucolic farm the pair bought in 2014 to grow the fruits and herbs for their pops, and it makes a great spot for a community gathering.

The Hutcheson-Redwine Plantation is a magical scene. Nestled in the rolling terrain of Chattahoochee Hills, the circa-1841 farmhouse has been lovingly restored. Here, recipes for a bucolic brunch, including watermelon spritzer, chilled melon soup, turkey sweet potato hash, and mascarpone tart with fresh strawberries.

With Passover on the way, we asked Todd Ginsberg of the General Muir to share this savory and sweet brunch recipe.

Monelle Totah and Gary McNatton used Hudson Grace as a restaurant to serve their California-style recipes for an all-star cast of guests. Monelle and Gary had one tip for the gathering: Keep it simple so you can enjoy the evening, too.

My dear friend Liz Lapidus, whose public relations firm represents some of the city’s top restaurants and creatives, has a knack for inviting all the right people to just the right venue. The dinner she hosted one fall evening in the leafy courtyard of Susan Bridges’s Inman Park gallery, Whitespace, was no different. There, her intimate group of eight gathered to celebrate Birmingham-based artist Amy Pleasant’s show Writing Pictures.

We took the best dishes from Atlanta's barbecue restaurants and made you a perfect picnic. Here are recipes for Community Q’s three-cheese mac and cheese, Heirloom Market BBQ’s ribs, Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q's smoked brisket, and more.

Quintessential aperitivo cocktails, like the pleasingly dry and bitter negroni and the Aperol spritz, are meant to stimulate the appetite. Here are two cocktail recipes and six dish recipes to throw a summer party to remember.

Nothing says Atlanta like an outdoor picnic. Back in the day, concertgoers pulled out silver candelabras at Chastain Park. Now we prefer a more relaxed but no less stylish vibe. For advice on pulling this off, we asked home decor shop owners Steve and Jill McKenzie to show us how they entertain outdoors in their neighborhood park.