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Will Film For Food
By Tom Maicon at February 8, 2010 | 12:44 am | 0 Comment
This is a super cool craft beer and food event to support local filmmaking, a fundraiser to help with the production of Savvy Lorestani & ECG Productions' next feature film, "Quarterlife Ben." As we here at Atlanta Cuisine are getting ready to break ground in video and television, we understand as well as anyone the enormous costs involved with filmmaking and more...
Food & Drink Events Feb. 8-14
By Tom Maicon at February 7, 2010 | 10:27 pm | 0 Comment
February 9 Leon's Full Service One Year Anniversary Party We’re roasting a whole pig! Live music from tongo hiti-featuring Mike Geier and members of Kingsized, tiki cocktail features. Visit http://www.leonsfullservice.com/events.html for more info. February 13, Noon-4pm Mardi Gras with a Heart: A festival at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market It’s a Valentine’s more...
Food & Drink Events Feb. 1-7
By Tom Maicon at January 31, 2010 | 8:57 pm | 0 Comment
February 5, 7pm-10:30pm Taste of Dunwoody The Taste of Dunwoody has been a friends event for seven years, and each year the donation that is given to Children's grows. Featuring foods from more than 25 restaurants around Atlanta, a cash bar, a silent auction and live music performed by The RELIX, the Taste of Dunwoody is always a sell-out event. Attire is business more...
Food & Drink Events Jan. 25-31
By Tom Maicon at January 24, 2010 | 7:22 pm | 0 Comment
January 22-28 Featherfest To celebrate the International Poultry Expo and the International Feed Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center, forty local restaurants, including Canoe and Café Circa, have entered a competition to see whose dishes make the best use of chicken or eggs. Winners will be announced on the last day of the show. To vote or for more information more...
Vinocity Becomes Kirkwood Public House
By Tom Maicon at January 22, 2010 | 10:04 am | 0 Comment
The name over the door might have changed, but that’s about it. Vinocity’s owners felt the name “Vinocity” pinned them with a “wine bar only” stigma, hence the name change to Kirkwood Public House. In a recent email exchange with co-owner Ian Smith Jr. he explained, “We are changing the name to Kirkwood Public House because Vinocity, in a lot of more...
First Annual Buckhead Restaurant Week
By Tom Maicon at January 18, 2010 | 11:41 pm | 0 Comment
Buckhead - It seems that every intown area does their version of Restaurant Week. This Spring, Buckhead plans to throw their first such event starting Saturday, March 6 that will run through Sunday, March 14, 2010. Many of the area's best restaurants will each offer a prix-fixe, three-course menu consisting of an appetizer, a main course and a dessert for just $25 more...
Chef Lamar Departs East West Bistro
By Tom Maicon at January 13, 2010 | 1:00 am | 2 Comments
Athens - Chef Lamar Thomas announced today that he will no longer command the kitchen at East West Bistro. Thomas began working for the popular downtown Athens dining destination in 1995, and quickly became a household name. Let’s hope this talented toque lands somewhere—and soon. In the meantime, he plans to continue his columns in both Atlanta Cuisine and more...
NYC Health Commissioner Wages War on Salt
By Tom Maicon at January 12, 2010 | 10:01 am | 0 Comment
Thomas Frieden—the New York City Health Commissioner most noted for banning smoking and trans fats—is now pointing his guns at salt. His goal is to gradually reduce salt levels in packaged foods and mass-produced restaurant meals, according to Grub Street New York. High levels of sodium in the diet has been linked to health problems such as high blood pressure more...
Atlanta Cuisine Forums
By Tom Maicon at January 3, 2010 | 11:28 pm | 4 Comments
I’ve received several emails over the past two weeks regarding the absence of the AC discussion board. I figured it would be best to post something here to clear things up. Atlanta Cuisine is no longer in the message board business, at least not in the immediate future. We’re currently changing our focus and energies—and server space—to Internet video more...
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