Dining in the hood
February 11th, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in RestaurantsWe’ve been eating close to home in the Grant Park area this week. A few notes:
The Standard is now serving brisket tacos. I haven’t tried them yet, but I have eaten their brisket, smoked on the premises, several times as part of specials and it was very good. …
Speaking of brisket, I returned to Fox Bros. BBQ for another taste of their kinky “burger” made with brisket, bacon and pimento cheese. It was good, but not nearly as huge as my first one. Don’t get me wrong. It was huge — just not extra-huge. …
We had a surprise at Grant Central last week. The chef sent out lengths of grilled tuna and slices of hard boiled egg, atop lettuce leaves. Picture salade niçoise lettuce-wraps. My favorite dish here, a special, remains the mussels over pasta puttanesca. …
Stella has become a regular stop for us, and I love the special pizza with prosciutto and slices of caramelized pear … but I’m ready for something new. I still salivate recalling their fig pizza last summer. …
About 85 restaurants raised $45,000 in the dining-out event for John Henderson, the murdered bartender at the Standard. The reward for information leading police to his killers is now that same amount. It’s the highest reward ever offered by the Crime Stoppers Atlanta tipline, 404-577-8477. …
Dynamic Dish, which used to be a regular dining stop for us at least one night a week, has been packed every time we’ve driven by. It’s only open Thursday-Saturday nights, so reservations are essential. We never think that far ahead. … Agave also seems to be doing a very good business, as do the new Tin Lizzy’s Cantina and the relocated Six Feet Under. …
I haven’t tried it yet but I received this e-mail: “The Bureau is now open daily for lunch and is continuing its wildly popular Sunday brunch. Stop by Monday through Friday, beginning at 11:30 a.m. to taste the upscale pub-grub from Consulting Chef Shaun Doty’s new menu. The brunch buffet, now famous after The Bureau’s 25-cent “Bailout Brunch” in January, is available every Sunday for only $7.95 per person, with $3.75 specialty Mimosas and Bloody Marys.”
February 15th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I think the fact that cf is profiling these types of restaurants in this gentrifying, no, I sorry, GENTRIFIED neighborhood is proof alone that it doesn’t qualify as the HOOD … And if that wasn’t the meaning of the word’s use, they why use it in the title? In today’s Atlanta of changing neighborhoods and racial boundaries (no longer just North of North Ave. separation), I don’t think it’s a fair use of the term.
February 15th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I guarantee that if Cliff had put an apostrophe before the word hood, this query would not have even been posed.
I don’t think he meant “hood” in as a pejorative term, but rather as he states, his “neighorbood.”
February 15th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
MUSC-
Cliff lives in that neighborhood, ergo, it’s his hood. I live in the most expensive zip code in Atlanta in a $4.0 million house and I (and my neighbors) call it our hood – no negative conotations.
So try and get out of the house a little more. And then KYS.
Love,
KYS
February 15th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
what are yall talking about??
calm down geez. read the blog for what it is: restaurant news
February 15th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Groan. I got an even more outraged comment some months back for using the word “gentrified.” So you have likewise offended the language police, Musc.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
groan? you meant $%^$#$!#&*!
February 16th, 2009 at 1:07 am
the first comment MUST have been a bad joke, yes?