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With just 2 weeks to go, we thought you might need a little reminder for why you need to purchase your tickets to the 2013 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival before they’re all gone!
With just 2 weeks to go, we thought you might need a little reminder for why you need to purchase your tickets to the 2013 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival before they’re all gone!
Everyone in Atlanta (and beyond) knows all about Tim Gaddis…or do they? I had the opportunity to sit down with everyone’s favorite Cheesemonger from Star Provisions for a Q&A session to find out everything from how he got his start in the business (did you know he was a police officer first?), to his current favorite cheeses, and a preview into what he has in store for the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, which comes to town May 30 – June 2, 2013.

Do you like Craft Beer? Do you like Salsa? Do you like Hip-Hop? Yeah, exactly! High Gravity Cinco takes place at the Georgia Freight Depot – a HUGE 25,000 sq. ft. venue featuring indoor and outdoor spaces for you to sip in fresh air or bask in chilling air conditioning.
We continue our two part recap series with the main event – the Taste of Atlanta 2012 weekend. After The Big Grill, we had our game faces on and were ready to dig in to all the city had to offer. Fellow Eat. Drink. Repeat. editor Chris Watkins was one of the judges on Saturday, while I set out to try (almost) everything there… I got full pretty quickly, so thankfully my team of expert foodie friends helped manage the work load.

Another weekend has come and gone, but what separates this weekend from the last, is the lack of a local food festival to keep our stomachs satiated. Yes, Taste of Atlanta helped us ring in the arrival of October, fall weather and the holiday season just around the corner. So for those looking to relive the experience, or a reason to try it out for the first time when it returns next year, read on for your 2012 festival recap, and hope to see you all October 2013 for the 12th annual Taste of Atlanta!

When our go-to beer consigliere Ale Sharpton of Cruisin’ for a Brewsin told us he was curating a one-of-a-kind beer feast, we could barely hold in our excitement. If you know Ale, you know he’s super passionate and knowledgeable about all things beer, so we knew off the rip that the idea would be best described in a word he often holds sacred for his favorite brews…gangsta.
In a city where beer festivals are weekly and almost every street has their own, I often wondered when it would be time for an event solely focused on cocktails. It’s an easy sell. A Prohibition-era themed cocktail festival in the vein of Tales of the Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail Classic is the stuff dreams are made of for a cocktailphile like myself.