The Foundry at Puritan Mill hosted the inaugural Atlanta Chef’s Expo, a culinary event showcasing local restaurants, caterers, bakeries, and private chefs. The sold out affair gave participants the opportunity to taste speciality dishes from each vendor with a portion of ticket sales benefitting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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I don’t know about you, but I really wish this weather would figure out what it wants to do. Is it winter? Is it spring? This level of inconsistency is really throwing a kink into my already pressed drinking regimen. And although I’m one of those people who enjoy drinking seasonally, an occasional break from winter beers and stiff whiskey is sometimes a welcome change.
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Entering its 12th year, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is set to take to the screens February 8 – 29, 2012. The event is Atlanta’s largest film festival attracting over 26,000 moviegoers and film buffs. This year’s romp is slated to offer 70 films (52 features and 18 shorts); a record number for the 2nd largest Jewish film festival in the nation.
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Imagine the carnival from your childhood. Bright lights, whimsical music, and midway games galore. Creepy carnies downing shots of booze between shifts to take the pain away. I digress. Now imagine that same carnival today under the backdrop of more than 100 quality beers for your sampling pleasure. Sounds too good to be true right? Well this adult carnival does in fact exist. Returning for its third year on February 11, 2012, the Winter Beer Carnival stretches its legs at a new larger location at Atlantic Station for even more great beer, carnival games, food, and good times.
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You may remember Chef Asha Gomez from the wildly popular Spice Route Supper Club series, an underground supper club that introduced patrons to the fresh and vibrant cuisine of her native Kerala. The exclusive monthly dinners sold out quickly featuring several courses of enriched regional cuisine. These dishes, although steeped in tradition, were served with modern flare and told the story of Chef Gomez’s unique multi-faceted heritage. In a little over a year, Chef Gomez has taken the concept into her first brick and mortar location, Cardamom Hill.
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In June 2011, the gang over at Sweetwater Brewing Company broke ground on an expansion to increase their capacity from 100K barrels to 400K barrels. Quite the undertaking, but with their ever-increasing popularity, the need for more space to increase production became a necessity. Fast forward to November 2011. Just a short five months after cranes and bulldozers leveled the adjacent parking lot and corrugated metal building, a new Sweetwater Brewing Company stands in its place.
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In preparation of pear season, the Pear Bureau Northwest/USA Pears embarked on an eight-city tour to increase awareness around the oblong fruit. The tour, dubbed “The Time is Ripe“, occupied local supermarkets during the day to educate consumers on how to enjoy pears at the peak of ripeness. In the evening, dinners were hosted in one of each city’s premier restaurants to showcase the influence of the pear in a four-course menu.
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It’s that time of year again. That time of year when our friends over at MillerCoors pull out all the stops to celebrate those individuals and brands in the bar and service industry, event promotion, and business development. These individuals and brands through their tireless efforts in raising the bar around customer service and innovating aspects of their separate fields will be honored with a night filled with interactive experiences, brand exhibitions, and multimedia engagement.
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We typically don’t venture outside the perimeter on our food excursions. With so much variety and an inordinate amount of new restos opening daily, traveling outside of the Midtown/Downtown “safe zone” can be a daunting task. But every once in awhile a place comes along to make gassing up your car and traveling into unchartered territory more worthwhile. Enter Chicken and the Egg, a new modern take on sustainable Southern cuisine in the heart of Marietta.
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Imagine that you’ve been invited to a traditional Italian dinner. The spread is wrought with artisanal cheeses, breads, meats, and pastas. Basically you’re dining at the Louis Restaurant from The Godfather, sans the murder and violence. The waiter brings out a tall teardrop-shaped bottle of a brilliantly crystal spirit. In utter disbelief that no wine is being served at the Italian feast, you’re even more shocked to find the crystal spirit adorned in a bed of freshly-picked cherry tomatoes, aromatic basil, and assorted wild berries. The waiter explains that this is the I Spirit Vodka tasting experience, and that your world is about to be forever changed.
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