Ultra-luxury on Peachtree
July 24th, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in Restaurants
I visited Neo (3376 Peachtree Rd., 404-995-7545), the new Italian restaurant in the Mansion on Peachtree, last week. This development is the ultra-luxurious hotel with residences that will soon be home to a branch of Craft, the ultra-hip New York restaurant.
Our meal was a mixed success. The take on Caprese salad pictured here looked good but featured a tasteless buffalo mozzarella. The organic tomato was equally bereft of flavor. It typifies much of the food here: pricey, pretty and pretty bland.
On the other hand, an entree of osso bucco was quite good and accompanied by a celery puree whose almost minty sweetness ideally complemented the roasted meat.
I can say without equivocation that the restaurant is gorgeous, with classic architectural features (sans showy theatrics) and a view of a large English courtyard garden. It has a super-attentive staff, too.
Look for my review in Grazing next week.
(Photo by Cliff Bostock)
July 24th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Love your blog. I will be making my way down to Atlanta at some point soon, and these restaurant reviews and discussions are wonderful.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Had the veal shank at Neo and it was completely tasteless. Gorgeous dining room though.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
NEO, thanks for the post.
I agree on the food.
Very bland and blah.
I found it very overpriced. The restaurant lacks an identity. The art is modern, the walls are all hospital looking and the chandeliers are all crooked.
They need Tom Collichio to go in here and give them a top chef talk on how to get their act together. The restaurant looks like it was put together as an afterthought by amateurs. Let’s take a big white room with a big window, add some horrible modern art, add some tasteless food and call it NEO. NEO new for what, another new bad hotel restaurant.