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Harvest Midtown Comes To The Georgian Terrace

Posted by foodiebuddha on October 03, 2009

Harvest Midtown hits Sunday, Oct. 4 from 1pm to 5pm (that’s tomorrow as of this writing). The event will be hosted at the Georgian Terrace in Midtown and runs from 1pm to 5pm. This fall festival features a lot of food, wine, and entertainment from around the city.

If ya’ll are looking for full on details, check out Harvest Midtown’s website. In the meantime, here’s a little summary of what to expect in the food & wine department.

Winemaker Mark Davidson will be hosting mini seminars on organic bio demonic wines. They run once an hour on the 30s. If you get a sip of something you like, head over to the Barrelman Wine & Cheese Booth to score some grape juiz.

Meanwhile, there will be food tastings from a number of nearby restaurants. According to the HM Website, you’ll be able to score some grub from ENO, Chow Baby, Muss & Turner’s, Holy Taco, The Melting Pot, The Sun Dial, Spice Market, Rosa Mexicano, Livingston, Baraonda, Pacci, Pura Vida, The Oceanaire, Nickiemoto’s, Noni’s Deli, Dolce, Geisha House, Flat Creek Lodge, and Ri Ra Irish Pub. If you’re interested in going, you have a couple of ticket options. General admission tix will run you $55 while VIP cost $85. You can save $10 if you purchase tickets before tomorrow. You can do that online. Last but not least, the event is a fundraiser for Camp Twin Lakes. Details on the tickets after the jump!

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ENO Restaurant Review – Midtown, Atlanta, GA [Top Chef Stop] 2

Posted by foodiebuddha on September 25, 2009

It’s a place that Atlanta denizens want to love. It’s the type of place we should love. Ultimately, I’m not sure it’s a place that we do love. ENO restaurant in Midtown Atlanta has gotten a lot of attention in recent months. The majority of the hype has come on the heels of executive chef Eli Kirshtein’s recent trip to Las Vegas for season six of Top Chef. The restaurant got it’s second wind when word broke that Atlanta Hawks center Zaza Pachulia had come out of nowhere to purchase both ENO and the adjunct Barrelman Wine & Cheese Shop. Despite that potential boon to business, things haven’t really changed much recently.

That’s not to say that the restaurant as a whole has remained stagnate since its 1999 opening. Their days as a Mediterranean stomping ground are a thing of the past as the menu is now a cornucopia of highly conceptualized dishes that hint at the elements of molecular cooking. Though the menu is constantly in flux, the backbone of the experience is the wine. It is a constant point of pleasure for yours truly, and I’m not alone in that respect. [Amongst others, Atlanta wine blogger and current Murphy-Goode employee Hardy Wallace loves it!]

Still, this post is a little non-traditional as it is a balance between the singular experience of my most recent trip and the longstanding qualities that have been in place for the better part of the past few years. True to my modus operandi, I wasn’t totally sold on the experience. In fact, I walked away from the meal with one word on my mind: Interesting. Mind you, this isn’t to imply that ENO was a disaster, rather … it just didn’t snap together nice and tight.