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Fresh Loaf

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Highlights from our food blog

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

PRETTY IN GREEN: The dining room at WaterHaven

Knife’s Edge: Staff infection (Richard Blais gives us a glimpse into the restaurant world’s make or break pre-game huddle.)

Ghetto burger for sale? (Say it ain’t so. Looks like Miss Ann could be retiring.)

Grazing: First Look: 5 Seasons Westside and WaterHaven (It’s surprising that new restaurants are still opening around town given the current economy, but Cliff is pleasantly pleased with both of these new offerings.)

Restaurant Review: Taverna Fiorentina (Besha enjoys the “soul-pleasing Italian dishes” at Andreas Montobbio’s Taverna Fiorentina.)

Cheap Eats: TINY Bistro (Jennifer Zyman visits this cute new spot in the booming Westside.)

Upton Sinclair did not eat here (Cliff shares his thoughts — and photos! — about the newly opened Abattoir.)

Highlights from our food blog

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

BEHOLD: The Kitkat Jesus

Annoyance of the week (Cliff wonders why Taqueria del Sol doesn’t offer WiFi. An angry storm of comments ensues.)

Grazing: First Look: Varasano’s Pizzeria (After a few initial posts leading up to his official first impression, our resident foodie sets the record straight.)

A guide to Atlanta coffee (Besha gathers a team of experts for a blind tasting of some of Atlanta’s favorite brews.)

A remarkably stupid decision? (We all know that the AJC is going through hard times, but Cliff wonders if taking John Kessler off the food beat was a step in the right direction.)

Buy me a Popeye’s please (Cliff’s roundup of local food news and gossip.)

Highlights from our food blog

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

YOU WISH! Chuck Norris does not approve

Review: The Porter (After a rocky start, Besha discovers that the L5P restaurant delivers with a cheap, satisfying menu, and the beer to match.)

Bureau offers ’stimulus specials’ and new menu by Shaun Doty (Local restaurants are doing their best to coax you away from the oven.)

Great meal at Metrofresh (Cliff just couldn’t resist the flat iron steak and a lemon cupcake.)

Beer pick of the week: Brooklyn Local 2 (Our resident beer guru, Jeff Holland, turns us on to the Belgian-style strong dark ale.)

Win a ‘Top Chef’ trip for two to New Orleans (The folks over at our fave Bravo show are giving away an all-expenses paid, weekend vacation for two to the New Orleans Food and Wine Experience.)

Highlights from our food blog

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The pigs in a blanket at Serpas

Are grocery stores the new restaurants? (Publix and Whole Foods are tres chic in our current economy.)

Grazing: Two in East Atlanta (If you do manage to find some spare change tucked away, stop by the Glenwood and Matador Mexican Cantina and Tequila Bar.)

Lunch at Craftbar (Cliff’s spare change led him to Tom Collichio’s Craftbar.)

Review: Serpas (Besha takes a bite out of Scott Serpas’ first solo venture.)

Knife’s Edge: Food borne illness (”Top Chef” alum Richard Blais — and new CL columnist — waxes philosophical about food industry douche baggery.)

Meet our food blog’s newest contributor: Richard Blais

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Richard Blais, the Willy Wonka of Atlanta

Over at our sister blog, Omnivore, Atlanta’s favorite molecular gastronomist and “Top Chef” 2008 short-lister Richard Blais will be dishing up celebrity-chef insight as Creative Loafing’s newest columnist.

Blais is ready and willing to “field as many questions as I can” and “take some harsh critique from real people behind ridiculous screen names” — with a couple of exceptions:

The rules are simple. I won’t be writing about any of my projects in Atlanta. My boss, my “chef”, my editor, the food critic, who I’ve sworn profanity at from the comfort of my own kitchens at times, won’t have it. And neither will I.

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