How’s your nose for news?
September 11th, 2008 by Cliff Bostock in NewsOK, here’s this week’s true-or-false culinary quiz. Winners will receive our congratulations.
1. Buckhead Life Restaurant Group is at it again! This time, Pano will open a French- style cafe to be located within the new Sovereign tower on Peachtree Road. Though much of the building itself is complete, little if any interior work has been done, so as of now, the opening is set for Spring 2009.
2. Richard Blais, Atlanta’s celebrity chef, announced that he has temporarily retired from the restaurant business because he has worked for every restaurant in existence on the North American continent. However, he is considering an offer to develop a chain of yak-burger restaurants in Tibet.
3. Thumbs Up Diner, a local favorite for breakfast, opened a third location Monday, Sept. 8, in West Midtown. This new location is situated close to both the M Street Lofts as well as a variety of boutiques. Breakfast is served throughout the day, with whole wheat biscuits and homemade berry preserves, stone-ground grits and “the heap” of fried potatoes.
4. A woman entered a well known Buckhead restaurant today carrying a hand gun with a polished, mother-of-pearl handle. She put the gun on the table and when the server arrived, she said, “I don’t want no tapas. If you bring me even one of them tapas, I am blowing you and everyone else in this restaurant to kingdom-come.” The kitchen was informed and panic ensued, as nobody knew how to prepare anything other than a tapas-sized portion. Police have the restaurant surrounded at this time. More as it develops.
5. Cafe Dupri, located just south of Peachtree on Piedmont Road, has closed its doors, permanently. Having been opened for just over 3 years, it was apparently unable to stay afloat with the poor economy and heavy restaurant competition in the area. Guess having a celebrity owner doesn’t make you immune to closure.
6. Concentrics Restaurants, operators of the fantastically hip One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six, has purchased Piedmont Park, which it will convert into an organic farm for its new farm-to-table restaurant, FRM, which will take over the space formerly occupied by the conservatory of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
7. Zucca, an Italian restaurant currently with three locations OTP, finally makes its cuisine available to those ITP. Taking the space in Decatur Square vacated by the closure of Zocalo, the new restaurant is scheduled to open in the coming months.
8. Holeman and Finch, the super-trendy gastropub that specializes in scrap meat, will be stringing up and butchering a hog on the first morning of a good freeze in our city. The entrails will be read by a high priestess of Voudon, after which they will be cooked up for a special Slaughter-to-Table chitlin’ dinner.
(1, 3, 5 and 7 quoted from Repeat Atlanta.)
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