Gossip from Buckhead, Midtown and the Old Fourth Ward
March 8th, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in Cooking, Drink, Food media, Gossip, Restaurants, mouthful
Savor, the popular gourmet grocery and sandwich shop, has added panini to its menu, according to Brad Lapin, my perennial Friday lunch companion. …
Cafe Lapin (no relation to Brad) has opened in the same shopping center. You can order breakfast, lunch or dinner there (no dinner on Sunday). …
AJC critic Meredith Ford Goldman’s review of La Pietra Cucina is due out this week. Brad and I lunched there Friday (surprise!) on arancini (below) suffused with marjoram and a seafood risotto (above) turned velvety black with squid ink. It contained snapper, rock shrimp, mussels and calamari.
Members of the Atlanta chapter of the Accademia della Cucina Italiana ate at La Pietra recently and grilled Chef Bruce Logue within an inch of his life, since his cuisine neither complies with usual notions of authenticity nor regionality. He calls his cooking “progressive Italian,” since he must depend on locally available ingredients. …
Serpas has begun serving Sunday brunch, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.: “Menu items include New Orleans beignets with confectioner dust, house made granola with yogurt and fresh fruit, cast-iron sunny-side up eggs with hashbrowns and andouille, raspberry marscapone-stuffed French toast with crispy bacon, slow-roasted pork loin with smoked cheddar grits and creamy collards and fried oysters-eggs benedict with Tabasco hollandaise.”
Healthy fast food and kitchen glitz are coming to Midtown:
Evos, an innovative and healthy quick-service eatery, and SCIC, a luxury shop offering top-of-the-line products for custom kitchens, have signed leases at Viewpoint, the 36-floor mixed-use tower in Midtown.
Evos will be located in a 2,832 square-foot, ground-level retail space on the north side of the building and is slated to open early summer. The environmentally minded restaurant offers a fresh, wholesome menu of burgers, wraps, salads and organic milkshakes and uses certified organic ingredients whenever possible. This will be the first location in Georgia for the franchise, which has four other locations.
Viewpoint’s second addition – SCIC – has signed on for 1,212 square feet of retail space. Pronounced “chic,” the retailer will offer sleek, imported kitchen products. This will be the first location in Atlanta for the upscale Italian retailer. Slated to open in late April, SCIC will offer Atlanta homeowners the very latest in cutting-edge kitchen design.
After 30 years of operation Pano’s and Paul’s, the first Buckhead Life restaurant, has closed. Original plans were for it to move immediately to the St. Regis Hotel (with the new name of Pano’s), but opening has been delayed until late this year. Ditto for the earlier-announced Pano’s Grand Cafe, which was slated to open this Spring in the Sovereign Building. It won’t open until November and has been re-christened Baton Rouge.
(Photos by Cliff Bostock)
March 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Evos has been a Tampa staple for about 15 years. I’m glad to see them coming to the ATL and my neighborhood.
Nothing fancy, just healthy alternatives to fast food (and good baked fries).
March 10th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Just a note, Savor also added espresso. They have had the machine for a while, but was not up and running until recently. I had a latte there over the weekend, the line at Starbucks was crazy, and it was REALLY good. Havent had the panini’s but all the food there is tasty.