Figs at Dynamic Dish
July 18th, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in Restaurants
Among my favorite summer tastes is figs and the dish above, which I ordered Thursday night at Dynamic Dish, made superb use of them.
Owner/Chef David Sweeney found the organic Black Mission figs at the Dekalb Farmers Market on Thursday morning. They were ripe, but not over-ripe, still a bit coarse, but with a pointed sweetness. He served them atop whipped chevre spread on bread. They were garnished with lightly candied pecans.
Interestingly, the open-face sandwich was served with a purple potato salad, garnished with cucumber slices. I say “interestingly,” because the skin of Black Mission figs turns purple with ripening, so it was cool to see the color turn up unexpectedly.
I also ordered a gazpacho made from local tomatoes, tinted with yellow turmeric and garnished with sunflower sprouts. For dessert: warmed rhubarb compote, almost shockingly sour, sweetened with vanilla ice cream dusted with cardamon.
Honestly, the array of flavors in this and every other meal I’ve had at Dynamic Dish is staggering.
The restaurant was doing a brisk business Thursday night and the most exuberant diner was the youngster pictured here, throwing his arms up in victory as he stepped on another of his toy cars, like Godzilla destroying Tokyo.
Incidentally, Atlanta magazine featured Dynamic Dish in its July issue. You can read Christiane Lauterbach’s review here.
(Photos by Cliff Bostock)
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July 18th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I was there last night too. I was amazed at the quality of food. My friends and I ordered everything but the fig dish. The antipasto plate had this great salad on it, grilled fennel and goat cheese, I think, but it was the best. The rest of the plate was okay. the turnip green and quinoa salad was so delicious, as was the wrap. The coleslaw that came with the wrap was just blah, and my friends tasted the gazpacho and said they really didn’t like it: too tomato soupy. I hate tomatos though and din’t try it. Oh and we got the rhubarb compote too. I used to dislike rhubarb, not anymore. I should have listened to your blogs from the other times you reviewed dynamic dish. It is now defintley going to be a top stop for me.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
this restaurant has the MOST amazing food in the world. the food is so good that i have to get up and dance afterwards. my parents can’t restrain me. oh, and i like stomping on trucks.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I thought that was Graycyn in the photo.
Dynamic Dave is the man. This is the best thing going on food-wise in the ATL.