Salt Yard

June 13, 2013 · 3 comments

in atlanta, dining out

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Salt Yard has opened on Peachtree Rd, next door to the new(ish) Watershed in The Brookwood condo building. They share a valet in the parking garage.

They feature – get this – small plates. The menu is slightly worrisome to a seasoned eater. There’s quite a bit of breadth, with little focus except on the size and shareability format.  French, Italian, Mediterranean, Asian, Southern…it’s all covered. [read more…]

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Lots to do today. I’ll make this brief.

I attended the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival as a photographer for Eater.

Here is a link to the Eater article with some photos. 

Here is Josh Ozersky talking about the festival. 

Here is a link to my Flickr set. [read more…]

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Ryan Smith, Andrew Thomas Lee, Alvin Diec, and Wyatt Williams have created a new single-topic food magazine named Brother.

I picked one up at Empire State South after the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival this past Friday night.

The first issue features Brandon Chonko of Grassroots Farm, where he raises chickens and his family.

The type and paper and photos are lovely, and graphic. Chicken guts and what not.

It’s right to know from where your food originates.

Read more on Brother here. www.brotherjournal.com

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on vacation

May 21, 2013

I’ve been out of town, on a long planned vacation to Japan. I have been blown away. Here are a few photos as I probably won’t be posting until I get back next week. But for now, let me just say Japan knows what’s up when it comes to eating and drinking.

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Taka Health Inspection

May 19, 2013

Sushi is special to me, particularly nigiri, which is synonymous with the word sushi, but I wanted to be clear on what I meant. There is no closer experience to your food and chef. In excellent conditions, one orders, and quickly the chef slices the fish, often time barely dangling it from a finger to avoid increasing [...]

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The Beach & Charleston [The Ordinary - FIG - Hominy Grill - McCrady's]

May 12, 2013

As I mentioned the other day, I’m still catching up on some out of town posts…I have a Vegas post that is long overdue, but after that and this, I should be current. Though, I am in Japan right now and that should fill the backlog for quite some time. Obviously, it’s very important that [...]

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BoccaLupo

May 9, 2013

First visit to BoccaLupo, in the former Sauced (Ria’s) location on Edgewood, which is helmed by Bruce Logue who opened La Pietra Cucina, back when it was good. He makes pasta. I ate some. And photographed. I had a ravioli style deal with mushrooms and young (not as bitter) rapini. Nice and light. Tomatoes and [...]

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Squeaky Bean – Matsuhisa [Vail | Denver]

May 7, 2013

I have a few traveling posts queued up that I will be putting out over the next week or two. If you only want Atlanta content, you may want to ignore the blog. More than usual. Today is Vail and Denver, from a recent bro’ing out ski weekend with my pal Brian. It was a [...]

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