Art of the Meal

How now, Howell Mill? Atlanta’s once pocked and remote industrial thoroughfare seemed an edgy choice for elegant Bacchanalia when it moved there from its safe and serene Buckhead manse a decade ago. Today Howell Mill, invaded by artsy urban homesteaders,…

I take great pride in (and, of course, full credit for) successful restaurant recommendations. One of the great joys of this job is helping people find their new favorite place to eat, requiring as much intuition as restaurant knowledge, as…

When the going gets tough, the tough go dining. In Macon, an innovative model of “social entrepreneurship” offers the chance to do good by eating well. Looking to create jobs by matching local businesses’ needs with trained workers, Goodwill Industries…

It was love at first sight: Rising like a mirage out of the suburban sprawl of Columbus’ Bradley Park Drive, Chef Lee’s Peking Palace II is a grand, old-school monument to Chinese food – and the American dream. Lee’s is…

Oh, our economic woes: As if we’re all not depressed enough, try visiting a once-thriving restaurant and finding tumbleweeds blowing through it. Especially now, everybody is looking for good food at the right price, but also something that doesn’t feel…

How do I love dim sum? Let me count the ways: I love the depth and breadth and speed of it. I love the excitement and hustle and low cost of it. But most of all, of course, when it…

In these tough times, opening any restaurant is an act of courage. However, Dogwood partners Scott Black and Chef Shane Touhy and are not only birthing a new baby, but also breathing new life into two once-tired institutions: Southern food,…

So it’s January, and a whole new year – complete with new pounds, new exercise resolutions and a serious new case of cabin fever. What to do? A weekend getaway to the northwest Georgia mountains might seem counterintuitive (somewhere ……

After hearing and reading about 4th & Swift, I excitedly added it to my “must try soon!” list. It has so many intriguing features: A cool-looking interior, carved from the engine room of the reclaimed Southern Dairies building, in the…

When I first got wind of the new “public house” Restaurant Eugene chef/owner Linton Hopkins was planning, I vowed to be one of the first to try it. Hopkins isn’t just one of Atlanta’s most inventive chefs – he’s one…