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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-18 15:32:47
March 18 2012 15:28 GMT
#21
There's some excellent Korean food a little north of the city. You should Google a place called So Dong Kong.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/so-kong-dong-atlanta


I'm not really into korean food... but if it's a good place, I'll definitely check it out (im a fan of good food more than anything).

Another local spot worth checking out is the Clermont. It's a strip club, but not what you might expect of a strip club. It's a bit of a cultural experience.


well i'm here with my girlfriend but we'll see. Some chick was totally scoping me out, like clearly smiling at me, in front of her, and we thought it'd be a good idea to invite her back, but I guess we were just busy.

I agree with the above poster.
The Death adder is simplistic, light and responsive. You don't need ridiculously high DPI in Starcraft. 2000 is more than most people can handle. The new Optical laser upgrade has made the DeathAdder much more responsive too. I have both the old one and the newer model and I could tell the difference Straight away.


Right, but is there like a tech shop in ATL somewhere, where I could buy this mouse? I doubt best buy has them, but like a frys or something?

If you're in Atlanta you have to eat at the Vortex in Little 5 Points. It's sort of a must.


What is the vortex?

Yesterday my gf and I went to the world of coke factory. I think it's funny that it was like, all hyping the secret ingredient of coke, like every exhibit was about it, yet they never mention the fact that the 'secret' ingredient is cocaine leaves (that nowadays have the cocaine pressed out), to which Coke-Cola is the only company in the US that is allowed to have 'cleaned' cocaine leaves (which they obtain from the only US company allowed to make cocaine, a pharmaceutical company making eyeball anesthetic, as cocaine is numbing like lidocaine and cocaine is best for eye surgery). But at the world of Coke, they never mention they use cocaine leaves. I mean, that's the reason why coke is so much better than pepsi (i wonder how hard coke cola lobbied in 1917 when the US goverment was proposing to make cocaine illegal).

Anyways, it would have been cooler if they talked more about coke operations and bottling and such (you know, like they do at beer factories, if youve ever been to one) then like... talking about the secret ingredient which, there really isnt (its more a formula i believe). It was really corny. But the soda section was cool at the end, brought a lot of good memories to sample lots of different sodas that I've loved when traveling to certain countries (mezzo mix in Germany, fanta melon soda in japan).

I'm about to pick up some food from Mary Mac's. Got some fried chicken and southern food!

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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 18 2012 15:58 GMT
#22
Also looking for a shoping place - I coould definetely get new shoes, skate shoes (gf got me a skateboard, I used to skate sonsored long time ago, and I work in restaurants so need shoes that are comfy and I can mess up), as well as some nice brown shoes (in the style of those 10 things you didn't know XX series blogs)
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ZeaL.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
March 19 2012 15:12 GMT
#23
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That's the vortex. It's not bad imo, I would go there more often if it wasn't in L5P which = billions of hipsters and terrible traffic.
SwizzY
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1549 Posts
March 19 2012 15:25 GMT
#24
It depends on what your budget is. If you are willing to go all out, there are very nice, 3-4 star restaurants on peachtree road which is in Buckhead that are excellent for a nice dine out:
Seasons 52 ($15-30 plates)
Nava (never been)
(both of which are in the same plaza'ish area)
Dante's Down the Hatch, near Lenox Mall (never been but heard atmosphere is excellent)
Pricci's (one of the top 5 italian restaurants in all of U.S., expect $30 plates minimum)
Buckhead Diner ($15-20 plates)
Maggiano's ($20-25)

And then there is the less fancy but equally good places like:
FLIP burger
Yeah burger
Vortex (another burger joint)
Spoon (Thai place)
and so many other side joints around the city that you can only really experience by eating there, which I haven't gotten to do.

One of the best Fish Taco places here is called Tacqueria Del Sol and it's a bit pricy at times ($2.45 for one taco), but I assure you, it is fucking good. It's a small joint but there is ALWAYS a line.

If you want any more places just PM me, I got a few twirling around in the back of my head that I can't remember right away
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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 19 2012 16:32 GMT
#25
We went to the vortex in Midtown. We saw Joe DeRosa at the laughing skull comedy show. It was hilarious, really private, so lots of interaction between him and the crowd. He was really funny. We were actually just planning to eat there, based on what people have said here, but we walked in at like 7:00 and we found out a comedy show was going on too, so we decided to get that instead of eat. Afterwards, we ended up not eating because we were sort of turned off. It seems like just a burger joint, I don't see how it's that great (i mean if it's the greatest burgers ever, sure).

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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 19 2012 17:46 GMT
#26
So, going to the aquairium now.

so whats a good place to eat! Whats the best bbq, like authentic pit bbq(no chain crap,but real q). Whats the best ice cream (besides blue bell of course, ive already eaten 2 tubs). Whats the best southern (marymacs teahouse sucked).

So far wewent to rays, and yea it was good. Not mindblowing, but very good (and pricy)

I see a few a bbq places listed as good, but you cant completely trust reviews. People will give famous daves 4.5 stars, or people who think baby back ribs is authentic pit bbq.
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ZeaL.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
March 19 2012 20:45 GMT
#27
Not a true BBQ lover myself but Fat Matt's and Fox Bros seem to be the two best that everyone mentions.
Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 19 2012 21:03 GMT
#28
Hey Zapling, I'm in midtown. And oh, you mean EDM - duh, yea I like it! Used to seeing it caitalized I guess, we're seeing Justice on thurs at the Tabernacle.

So I've been researching forever on bbq, and 'decided' on fox. I called, and found out it was BABY nack ribs. WTF. I want REAL bbq. Any place that serves Baby abck ribs is NOT real bbq! I'm into real, m authentic, pit style bbq. St louis style should go without saing. I've worked at a bbq dive, and been to a very few VERY good ones like M&M in TN and Alamo in VA. Its imossible to figure out real bbq online because, well, baby back ribs are good anywhere, but really, its not REAL bbq.

I'm lanning on going to Bachanalia tommorow. I hear its the best high end place, but pirces under 20. Sound cheap.

Ill call fat matts but I heard they boil they're bbq and the pics looked like cra, I hear sams is good but its far. I don't know. REAL authentic bbq is impossibly hard to find, its of course always good, but when you've had real, slow it cooked bbq, you never go back.
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ZeaL.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
March 19 2012 21:12 GMT
#29
Are you sure you're thinking of Bachanalia? If you've found something that's Bacchanalia and under 20 bucks tell me the secret cause I'm pretty sure the only thing they have is the $85 per person prix fixe course.

http://www.starprovisions.com/menus/bacchanalia/bacchanalia_menu.pdf
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
March 19 2012 21:26 GMT
#30
I don't know of any good BBQ places IN Atlanta. I think you really have to go to the middle of nowhere to find one.
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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 20 2012 00:39 GMT
#31
Yea Zeal. i just saw that. I'm not sure what I saw, but I was wrong, it's obviously expensive. I'll probably check it later in the week.


I don't know of any good BBQ places IN Atlanta. I think you really have to go to the middle of nowhere to find one.


i think so too. We went to Daddy D'z and while it was 'authentic' pit smoked bbq, with st louis ribs, it was totally missing something. Like, it was slathered in sauce, but I think they didn't put any rub seasoning on it! And I felt they microwaved it too long. I understand with pit cooking, the ribs are cooked 10+ hours, so they can't exactly cook it for you, and that they have to store them, and then reheat it them a bit to serve (this actually can improve the flavor, serving them right off the pit can lose juices compared to 'flash' freezing them and then reheating afterwards to lock in the juices), but I felt they maybe microwaved it too long, or that they only microwaved it instead of reheating it on a grill. I don't know, I'm not the cook (although I was for a short while), but I DO know it was definitely missing something. But at least it was real bbq. Too expensive to warrant another visit, but at least it was real bbq I guess. Some good sides, sure.

We need to find a good place to eat tommorow, not sure where. GF's parents coming into town for lunch tommorow.
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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 20 2012 21:27 GMT
#32
so we went to a place called Mi barrio, a Mexican place. it was authentic, but sucked. God am I just spoiled from traveling so much? Ive talked to so many people too, and ill be like

Hey, whats good ice cream? They tell me DQ, or brustere, or cold stone. They also say atl has amazing bbq, and then say foxes (baby back ribs are not real bbq!), or daddy dz (where we went and sucked), or famous daves.

I think theres lots of good high end, super expensive places, in buckhead (we saw a lambo up there). so we will be going to bacchanalia later.

Im struggling to find the best ice cream. Now contrary to bbq, even "bad" ice cream is cheap, and delicious.

Im looking at morellis, Jakes, and hanks. As long as its fresh, im sure its good. Blue Bell, some of the best ice cream ive ever had, is grocery store ice cream, so if itcan be better than that, that wil be at least godly.

I dont care for crazy flavors, nor ami opposed to it. Im looking for quality ice cream. I could care less what flavor it is, as high quality icecream of any flavor, is always amazing.

So anyone been to morellis, Jakes , hanks, orany other atl ice cream?
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Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-20 22:55:47
March 20 2012 22:43 GMT
#33
I guess I'll be the one to offer the alternative opinion since nobody seems to want to:

There aren't really high-end places to eat that stand out from any other city. There's no michelin stars, there's no crazy original place that just does 1 thing supremely well etc. I'm talking actual high-end since your posts and updates seem to just reiterate how disappointed you are. There's only 3 cities in america with michelin stars and some special places like french laundry scattered around, that should tell you something.

Atlanta isn't chicago, milwaukee, ny, la, san fran, etc... There aren't exciting young chefs pioneering a new style or experimenting with ingredients.

There are places that are kinda good or only good during certain times or just are the best atlanta has to offer. We have nothing that is completely original in style like kansas/carolina/texas bbq so you can just stop looking and wasting your time. Chefs leave atlanta to go elsewhere, and there isn't anyone truly truly talented who worked somewhere and came back to open something here.

I mean the fact that the varsity is recommended by people should say something. I'm ethnic Korean and I've lived in GA my whole life and there's nothing to write home about in terms of Korean restaurants. It's not even for a lack of population...there's a huge huge amount of koreans in and around atlanta. I mean I can give you a recommendation for korean bbq or tofu soup or where to eat baby octopus or the best place for grilled intestine bbq etc but what does that matter. Place that same restaurant in LA or Korea and it fails miserably.

Just hit up fat matts, virginia highlands, midtown/buckhead, hit up the ethnic cuisines you like on buford highway, MAYBE check out iberian pig, double zero napoletana and honestly you can say you've had what atlanta can offer you in terms of food.

You missed the ice cream festival already.

I'm not saying I'm some high food snob but a lot of people who live in Atlanta have no idea what even a 1 star michelin could possibly taste like. Just offering another perspective.
Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-21 17:13:20
March 21 2012 16:37 GMT
#34
There aren't really high-end places to eat that stand out from any other city. There's no michelin stars, there's no crazy original place that just does 1 thing supremely well etc. I'm talking actual high-end since your posts and updates seem to just reiterate how disappointed you are. There's only 3 cities in america with michelin stars and some special places like french laundry scattered around, that should tell you something.


Well, I'm not rich at all, so it's not like I just pig out on michelin! I have only been to one Michelin place ever, a 2 star in Spain called Lasarte in Barcelona (and whatever it was that we ate, was completely unfathomable in terms of taste, it was like the nicest steak or whatever I had eaten anywhere else was a stale cracker). However, during our stay, we are interested in eating, just once, at a high end place. From what I've heard, Atlanta seems to have a lot of that - now I know they aren't near michelin, but michelin is like $300+, and these restaurants are like 100 from what I hear. Maybe it's just expensive ruby tuesdays, but they sound okay.

We were at rays by the river early this week, and we enjoyed that place.

I mean those 'gems' of places are almost always really cheap places, not high end places, like sushi in oakland or bbq in TN. Hell, I live in Richmond, VA.

Now, if someone made the same thread that I did, about Richmond, just like me, they might be a bit dissapointed. But Richmond is probably 1/10th the size of Atlanta, not even, and I can list quite a few amazing places in Richmond. Richmond has a wealth of pizza restaurants that are great (could they compete with Berkeley? Well, they all offer meat, so yes, they could lol). Bottom's Up Pizza, and then there's Stuzzi and Sette. Alamo BBQ - while the sauce is maybe weird, or it's just not quite 'there' as BBQ, it's definitely REAL bbq, and it's definitely fucking awesome, as real bbq, and I go there at least once a month when in RVA. There's also acacia and can-can for 'cuisine', and tobacco factory for steak. There is no ice cream though, and unlike Atlanta, there isn't more than 1 place that is even there (and it's not talked about, it's way at west end, so most haven't even heard of it in RVA). And, there's one run of the mill sushi place that is decent (just expensive). There's no ethnic food besides a few scattered indian/thai places.

Just hit up fat matts, virginia highlands, midtown/buckhead, hit up the ethnic cuisines you like on buford highway, MAYBE check out iberian pig, double zero napoletana and honestly you can say you've had what atlanta can offer you in terms of food.


Going to avoid fat matts, the place that boils their bbq. If we run into it, we might get pulled pork, that's what some people have said to get there, knowing about their boiling practices.

Where should we go on buford?

Iberian Pig, Double zero Napoletana, I hadn't heard about these places before. We've been to Spain for a month, so we love tapas and spanish food! (oh double zero campani napoletana flour right? is that a naples style pizza place? I work at one now)

Someone yesterday said we should check out Loca Luna (and restaurant opened by same guy, Black Market), as a tapas place and great atl restaurant. Know anything about that? Those are spanish just like iberian/napoletana.

And he also said he knows the chefs at both restaurant eugene and bacchanalia, and he said if I was going to go to just one expensive place, I should go to restaurant eugene instead.

Anyways, thanks for your post! I was starting to think I was just this huge asshole pissing off everyone from atlanta.

so I'm looking at:
Iberian Pig tapas
Double Zero Napoletana (pizza place, so not sure, there's a place like this very good in RVA that I get to eat every day, authentic 'naples style' small pizza with minimal sauce, margherita style...)
Loca Luna tapas (so either here or iberian) not going to a place that sells tapas, but doesnt have iberian ham, plus i think its a bar first, 'tapas' second.
Black Market (not sure what it is)
Restaurant Eugene vs Bacchanalia (have no idea how to decide)

cakes and ale, and tacqueria del sol pop up a lot too.

then check out morellis ice cream, cnn building.
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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-21 18:20:44
March 21 2012 18:19 GMT
#35
just going to make another shoe blog. edit.

Anyways, going to check out:
- Bacchanalia (over eugene, eugene is farther away and well, bach seems to be #1 always, I can go to eugene later)
- Tacqueria del sol
- Morelli
- maybe iberian pig

And that's that.
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Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
March 23 2012 05:53 GMT
#36
So finally, a good restaurant!

We went to bacchanalia. The check, for 2 prixe fixe, half bottle of white wine, and a $15 desert wine glass, was $248 (a 20% tip on top, made it so I left $300 on the table), for two.

It was definitely like.. in that michelin area. However, it was obviously not nearly as good as the 2 michelin star 'Lasarte' we went to in barcelona. But as long as it's within the same lightyear as 2 star Lasarte, it's going to be fucking amazingj, and yea, it was.

At Lasarte in Barcelona last year, we spent $30 on a bottle of wine, and it was fucking amazing. i don't know how, but it was just amazing. It didn't have that cheap '7-11' aftertaste, and it was so good, you could literally chug it. It was just so thirst-quenching. It was some white wine, and the server there recommended it when we said, in english, to a guy in spain who knows no english, 'we have no clue'. He obvoiusly knew we had no idea what we were doing, so he said 'this is a good budget wine' or something along those lines. It was just the most amazing wine ever. I hate wine, personally, But, if it's good wine, anyone will love it (like, if you hate mushrooms, doesnt matter, if you get a $100 mushroom plate, you will fucking love it, kind of thing). But what was crazy about it, was it was $30 bottle, and was just so fucking good. You could chug it, it was so good. And the alcohol, it would go straight to your head! Cheap wine doesn't do that. I'm pretty sure this $30 bottle of wine, you couldn't find in any grocery store, or even high end grocery store. It was a diamond in the rough, I guess, but maybe more like, a diamond on sale in a field of super diamonds.

Anyways, my point is that the bill at Bacchanalia, was a lot due to the wine. We spent like $40-50 on a half bottle of wine. Now, a full bottle, is like 4 glasses for 2 people. This half bottle, was like 2 full glasses for 2 people. So it was basically more than twice the cost. It definitely wasn't as good as the wine in spain. It was still great, it didn't have that 7-11 taste to it, but it just didn't have that 'omg i need to chug this now' taste to it. I don't know. But it was still amazing wine. The $15 glass of desert wine, it was really 'strong' red wine, with a super sweet aftertaste. I kind of didn't like it, it had too strong of that 'wine' taste to it. It did go well with the desert.

Anyways. So $85 per 'prixe fixe', or 5 course meal. They gave you a menu, and for this prixe fixe, you picked out a selection out of about 5, for each of the 5 courses. I let the waiter know, straight up, i had no fucking clue (like what the fuck is a raddichio, or fava bean?). So I basically told him, for each course, what was his favorite. I think all I said was, on the first course "I'd rather not have shrimp, but, unless, of course, you recommend it especially. and I'd rather not have lamb because it doesnt sit quite right, and I don't care for duck, unless you would recommend it". because $85 lamb, or duck, or mushroom, or shrimp, is going to be fucking baller, but hey, I got to cut the choices down a bit somehow.

You can see the menu here:

http://www.starprovisions.com/menus/bacchanalia/bacchanalia_menu.pdf

They also had some taster stuff come out in between courses (so it was like an 8 course meal, yep, 8 plates! Each plate, of course, small, 8 full plates would be ridiculous, so they bring out 8, small dishes, over the course of the entire meal. It's not like applebees where you just get a main, and maybe you get an appetizer or desert if you buy it too. You choose 5 for the 'prixe fixe', and then there are like 3-4 tiny dishes from the kitchen for you too).

So first, was "Asparagus soup". It was like, corn chowder, in terms of texture? It had a very complex taste, and there were 2 tiny orange peels in it. It was very mild, and green. And there was a "Kumquat' thing - it was like this very brittle 1 inch rectangular cracker, with I guess a piece of kumquat on top, and some 2 other things piled on top of that too.

So I went with:
1: Hawaiin Ahi Tuna Crudo
Raddichio, Blood Orange,
Kohlrabi


It was amazing! The tuna, was basically raw tuna. If you've had sushi, it was like maguro (the deep red 'classic' tuna). Well, I've had a ton of sushi. I've worked at a sushi place, I always go to the best sushi place in the city I live in (RVA, tennessee, all over the bay area and SF). I've had great, fresh sushi at tsukiji fish market in tokyo (it's where all the fish comes from, literally, right off the boat, at the biggest fish market in the world). And this tuna, was just miles better.

It wasn't toro, which is the 'best' tuna, that's really fatty. As maguro style tuna though, it had much more. The texture, it was almost like the tuna had a more jello-like texture. Like 'biting' into it. It didn't quite literally melt in your mouth, but imagine eating jello, and that's kind of how it was like. Sort of. Hard to explain, but it was just very soft. And the taste was a bit deeper.

There was 2 sauces on the side of it, some sweet red berry sauce, some sweet lemon style sauce. I didn't add it to the sushi at all, to better enjoy the quality of the meat. But you can bet I wiped the sauce up with my fingers! The red stuff was like great jam or something, but it was just great. Really, really complex flavor. I tell you, the flavor in just that sauce, was more complex than anything, anywhere else (except, of course, at some other super high end $100+ restaurant).

My GF had:
Confit Foei Gras Torchon
Local Pear, Georgia Pecan
Ginger, Brioche


So foei gras is like, a duck, that's overstuffed, then killed, then the liver pulled, and the liver is like super fatty because this duck was stuffed. It was like a cheese spread, and she was given bread. It was great, again, very complex. It was fatty, and I guess like bologna. It was just super fatty, buttery, great. There were a few sauces on the side too, similar sauces to what I had (red sauce same, she had a different style lemon sauce).

2:
Wild Mushroom Risotto
Summerland Farm Chestnut
Parmesan, Spring Onion
Watercress, English Pea


The waiter recommended this one.

Risotto is like a rice, italian style. Just thick rice. It was like porridge I guess? I don't know. There was a hint of sweet in this dish I didn't like, but the mushrooms, I thought they were steak at first bite. They were very savory, and just amazing. I actually hate mushrooms, but not these mushrooms. Just amazing. Dry flakes of parmesean on it too.

My gf got:

Georgia Rainbow Trout
Spring Vidalia Onion
Fava Beans, Fiddlehead Ferns
Preserved Lemo


This was her favorite dish. It was just a really good piece of trout. I thought it just was kind of like salmon. Just cooked really, really well.

There were bits of caviar on top of it. I like caviar. They are like, these balls of liquid. Fish eggs (sturgeon fish). No flavor when you put them in your mouth necessarily, but when you bite into them, or pop the balls, you get this salty, very savory, deep, flavor explosion in your mouth. Caviar is fucking awesome. These caviar were white, like white wine, as opposed to what caviar normally is I think, black (yea that michelin restaurant had black caviar, really big ones. it was great). If you get a chance to try caviar, do.

3: Pork Loin, Glazed Belly, Rillette
Red Cabbage, Celery
Celery Root, Mustard


When I ruled out lamb for 'not quite sitting right' (i got lamb at that michelin restaurant, it was good red meat like steak, and I loved it, but something about it just doesnt sit right in my stomach. I'm not sure why, it's like a 'queasy' sea sick feeling, like after you'd get when you know you just ate a snail or human eyeballs. I can't get over it. I loved the dish, but I still had that queasyness), and duck (its just super fatty chicken, to the point of ridiculousness, i dont like dark meat anyways), and the steak (he said the steak is a super safe option, and yea, it's just steak, once you pay about $40 for a steak it doesnt really get better, and as long as you have good quality meat, you can cook the best steak at home anyways, which I actually do. I cook the best steak ever, wayyy better than outback or anything like that, the secret is rub, maybe letting it sit in oil and rub and vinegar/acid, and cooking it very slowly), that left me with basically the pork loin.

It was great. There were bits of 'pork loin', that I guess you can maybe compare to pork chops. Just very tender. A real good pork chop, I feel, is better than a steak. Really underrated piece of meat imo. Anyways, like 1 inch kind of circular kinds of pork loin, like 4 of them. Great, very tender, very juicy. If you've ever had a good piece of pork chop at a restaurant, yea, kind of like that I suppose, just a little fattier and better.

And then, the pork belly. I don't even know what that is. It was cray cray. Like, it felt apart first of all. Lots of fat. Maybe like bacon? I dont know. Just really, really fatty and juicy, and soft. You cut it with the fork, and it just fell apart. Really good.

Then he had some sauce he poured to the side. He said to 'top it off'. I thought he meant like, you ate it afterwards, but when I asked him when he passed by later what did he mean, since I wasn't sure how I was supposed to eat it, he just said like, do whatever. I thought he meant top it off as in, after you eat the pork, you eat the sauce, but he meant 'top it off' as in 'to complete your dish and make it baller'. He then said, 'you can mix it with the pork if you want, or not - it's up to you, experiment'. That was fun. It was like corn chowder? Mild, white. Very full flavor. Very mild. Not harsh at all.

There were bits of red cabbage on the bottom though, and they were kind of not good. I didnt care for that at all. I just didnt eat them at all. At the michelin restaurant, I would lick the plate clean. And for the most part, I would lick the plate clean here too. But not this cabbage (and what I mean, is at a restaurant like this, or michelin place, even the bits of sauce, which they seem to place randomly on random plates, but these fancy designs are actually amazingly tasteful and will taste better than anything you'll eat at any $60 plate restaurant, but even these bits of sauce, or the green leaf things, or random bits of veggies, are just fucking DELICIOUS, like all the taste in the world, crammed into some seemingly random piece of green, that at like at any high end steakhouse, youd just brush aside, while at a place like this, it tastes better than the steaks at such restaurants!). So, you know, that was dissapointing.

My gf got

Hand Cut Farm Egg Noodles
Summerland Farm Egg Yolk
Jumbo California Asparagus
Crispy Sourdough
Tarragon


I didn't really sample much of this. She had like 4 long, inch wide, ribbon noodles, that were fresh and obviously made from scratch there, an egg yolk, and some greens. I didn't care for what I sampled, which, again, I didn't really sample much of. But the egg yolk? You know, just any normal egg yolk. I dont know how you make an egg yolk special. The same egg yolk at any cheap diner, really. I wasn't impressed with this at all, but my gf ate it all, so I guess it was good enough to eat. I'm sure it was delicious. I had a piece of noodle, and I do recall it being very soft, and having a lot of flavor, like savory. But this dish didn't seem to impressive from where I sat. I think it had like crouton things in it too.


By this point my GF and I are just about to BURST from all the food. All of these dishes are super tiny, but they add up. My GF felt this was a very bad thing of the restaurant. At Lasarte in Barcelona, we walked out of the restaurant just perfectly full. Not stuffed, just very full, and completely satisfied. By this point, both of us, particularly my GF, was just stuffed, and any more would be like getting just disgustingly stuffed, in a bad way. My GF felt this was bad that the restaurant was giving us way too much food. I felt like, well, you dont have to clean the plate, and the more the better. But yea, I do feel it was kind of weak that it wasn't portioned perfectly. I don't know why, but I feel like maybe they can cut the price a bit and make the plates a bit smaller, or not, but that the food was too much. I know right, weird, I'm bitching that a restaurant that cost $300 is giving me plates that are too big. You are meant to clean the plates though, and maybe the 2 pieces of sourdough bread (just plain sourdough bread) and the 5 pieces of bread that went with her foie gras duck spread, contributed to getting stuffed too much, but I still felt this was a mistake on the part of the restaurant.


4: Goat’s Milk Fromage Blanc
Carrollton, GA
Roasted, Raw and Pickled Beet


The cheese dish. I had no fucking clue about any of this, but I do know I don't like feta (although again, expensive feta would probably be awesome). So I had the waiter recommend something, and that I didnt want the feta, unless he particularly recommended it. And so he recommended this dish.

The goal milk fromage blanc, was like a frothy, liquidy cheese. It was goat cheese, and I think all goat cheese is sort of thick in texture. It was good. I don't know how to explain it. It defintely wasn't cheddar or american. Just a frothy liquid, and when you put it in your mouth, it was kind of like... cheesy. It was blanc, white, I guess that's all I can say on that. it was very, very good.

And then there was some sweet frothy sauce too. Or cream? It was light, unlike cream. Maybe it was like whipped cream... yea that sounds right. You could tell it was almond in flavor. It was like vanilla almond. Very sweet, just cream. Underneath it, sat some crushed almond pieces.

And then there were a ton of beats on the plate. Red, beats, and yellow, pickled beats. The waiter said something like "I know some people don't like beats, but if they are cooked right, they are very good, and I love beats that are cooked good". Well, apparently, I hate beats, even when they are cooked right. When you bit them, it was like biting maybe cranberry sauce, but it's solid, so a bit more solid than that. Anyways, i didn't care for it. It's sort of neutral in flavor, but has that... 'beat' flavor. Whatever. I just did not care of the many pieces of beats on my plate at all.

My gf got:

CalyRoad Feta
Sandy Springs, GA
Winter Citrus, Young Fennel


She didn't like it, and I didn't sample it. I had a small taste of the feta, but I wasn't impressed, although it was definitely better than normal feta (maybe it was more like cottage cheese). She liked the beats I had, but she didn't find them particularly special. She ate them all.

Next came a Pre-Desert
It was a small, milkshake. A vanilla milkshake. It was awesome. It had like pieces of tiny, shaved ice inside, so it was like, not very creamy, but very... thirst quenching. It wasn't frothy like shitty mcdonalds shakes, and it wasn't thick, like ice cream anywhere else. It was very awesome. Just a standard vanilla milkshake, done very awesome. very milky. great, with obvious high quality ice cream in it. Not gooey at all.

5:
Valrhona Chocolate Cake
Mint Ice Cream

Banyuls, M. Chapoutier 1

As you can see on that linked menu, each item came with a recommended wine pairing. I got the recommended wine pairing. I described it above, but I didn't like it - it was a red wine, but one thing cool about it was that it had a VERY sweet overtone, or aftertaste, whatever, and it went very well with basically, my chocolate lava cake.

Extremely good choclate cake, with a gooey liquid chocolate sauce inside. Very warm. It definitely rivaled the best chocolate cake I ever had, at a restaurant in Akeyri, Iceland (northernmost city in iceland, i think northernmost city in the world). Maybe I'm partial because that chocolate cake didn't have quite a cake texture, but a texture that was a cross between pudding and cake, and it wasn't some moist cake, as it just WAS moist, being pudding/cake texture. That was damn good cake... but so was this lava cake. It was just cake done right. It was just a chocolate lava cake, like anywhere else, but the flavor was perfect, and the moisture was perfect, but in general a standard cake, nothing too fancy. besides, you know, being THE perfect lava cake with perfect moister and just perfectly cracking and crunching to the outside with molten chocolate inside of it.

There was some sweet foam spots on the plate, which were good enough to wipe clean with your finger, and then I had some rice cracker, which was very sweet and good, and a few gummy pieces of jelloey chocolate, that I didn't care for.

And, there was a small bit of mint ice cream. Now the mint was VERY obvious. It was like eating a spearmint leaf. VERY much mint, real, authentic mint to it. Literally like chewing a mint leaf, if you ever have. Actually, much stronger than that (looking back on eating mint leaves in morrocco from the amazing mint tea you drink everywhere there). It was just mint, straight up, in flavor. But the ice cream itself, it wasn't gooey, it wasn't airey. It was like blue bell in a way, in that you could eat it and it would quench your thirst on a hot summer day. It didn't have that airyness a lot of shitty ice cream has (or really, all ice cream has), nor any gummyness or gooeyness most ice cream has (especially gourmet ice cream). It was good. Not sure how to describe it. being a HUGE ice cream afficianado, yea, definitely the best ice cream i've ever had. But the portion was so small and quick that I wish I had more of it, to better judge it. It was sweet in flavor, very minty, not airy, not gooey. Like normal ice cream, you can sort of twist with your spoon or whatever. This ice cream, you twist it with the spoon, and it just turns. It's not gooey at all, and doesnt have that fluffing/flaking/texturing you get when you run the spoon across it, like you do with most ice cream.

My gf got:

Sourdough Beignets
Malted Chocolate, Sweet Cream
Cardamo


When placing the order, at the start of the meal (you have to say at start, so they can prepare it in time), the waiter had said to my gf that the beignets here are very heavy, unlike beignets elsewhere. I joked in response, saying what, the beignets he's had elsewhere were too light?

Like what the fuck is a beignet, and how can you say that they are heavier here, unlike elsewhere. I've never heard of a beignet. Like what, do you just get beignets at mcdonalds, and just grown up eating them all the time? 90% of the stuff on the menu I have never heard of, have no clue where i would go to get, let alone pronounce. So when he said that, i found it very ironic. Like I've ever had 'beignets' ever before in my life. Waiter, you sure I'll be okay with these heavy beignets? I'm so used to having them a certain way!

He found the humor in it, but explained that a lot of cajun/louisiana style restaurants have it. So I was like.. so.. any cajun place? And he was like yea.... okay... well, maybe just the high end place. I think he knew by this point, so early in the meal, that we never go to $300 restaurants, so we aren't going to be picky about that!

And he's a server! I mean, seriously. Does he just eat this kind of food all the time? Could he even afford to work at this restaurant? Has he eaten anywhere like this before? Does he just go to these kind of michelin calibre restaurants all the time? No one does, even most rich people probably never go to these kinds of places! So.. you know, irony.

Anyways, they were just like sweet little doughnots, except, like sourdough. We didn't care for these at all, imagine doughnot holes made with sourdough. Well, not quite doughnut, but like, little dough balls. I'm sure you understand what I mean, with like sugar all over it. But then, like made with sourdough. Not great.

I didnt taste her ice cream, but I imagine it's the same kind of ice cream I got, just chocolate instead of mint.

Keep in mind, we are both way past stufft here. We are just sickly full, can't move, too much food.

After this, they gave us some french madeleines. They were warm, fresh, fell apart very 'freshly'. Inside was kind of moist. Best madelieines ever. And I love madeleines (you can get these at coffee shops). Usually at coffee shops they are really dry, not moist, but still super awesome. But these, were very moist, like cupcakes or something, and soft... like cupcakes. Just really good, fresh, warm madeleines. I'm sure you could make these at home if you wanted to, or could fathom this if you just bought any madeleines.

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And then, they gave us some candy/stuff, as the finale. At the lasarte place, they gave us macaroons (which are fucking awesome, they look like colorful minitaure hamburgers, but the taste, i dont know, is unbelievable. theres a sort of cream inside, but its very light, and you bit it, and then its sort of like a cracker or cookie, but like if you press it against the roof of your mouth, it all squishes together really tight, i dont know how to explain it, like it squishes so it becomes candied - the ironic thing is that in morocco, you find bakeries selling these 'premium' thinggies for like 1 penny each, but in europe they are super expensive, and the quality is the same).

We just asked for them to be put in a bag, because we were too stuffed, and in a hurry to get to a concert that had already started. It was some red solid jelly cube (its okay), some sweet marshmellow cube thing (okay), and some other thing (forgot what it is, its in fridge).

All in all, it's definitely not on the same level as Lasarte in barcelona, a 2 star michelin restaurant. However, it was DEFINTELY worth it. I don't think the wine was worth it, next time I go, I'm just sticking with water (wine was too expensive, and overpriced in terms of quality, that or the wine I had in lasarte is just the best wine ever and was like $1000 quality for $30, either way, I dont care for wine, so unless it's that wine again, I'm not getting it) so it would only be $85 each, about $100 with tip, so $200 total with tip instead of $300.

But the food was totally amazing. I was impressed. I really enjoyed it. I think my girlfriend didn't like it as much because she decided to pick her own stuff, which was dumb. She, like me, has no clue about any of this stuff any way - yea, she doesnt like mushrooms, like really doesnt like them, but when its *this* quality mushroom, you'll love it. So she should have gone with waiter recommended like I did. Because I loved what I had - the fresh raw tuna, the pork, the chocolate cake, the mushrooms in the risotto dish I got, the goat cheese. I could go without the risotto dish in all, and the beats in my cheese dish, and my gf loved her trouth more than I liked my risotto.

But the ice cream? totally made it worth it, if not the rest of it. Definitely worth the money, even though I can't afford this shit anyways lol (well, maybe i can, i'm not paying anything for rent and working 70 hours a week). It was a great restaurant, and while not the same level as the michelin place, everything here was lightyears above anything else. I'm sure the nicest restaurant 99% of people go to, like outback, or ruby tuesdays, or even higher end places that have $50 plates like McCormick and Schicks, tobacco factory, there best stuff, steaks basically, doesn't come close to the flavor encapsulated in just some tiny piece of sauce or piece of mushroom or the milkshake, at this place.

Afterwards, we saw Justice at the Tabernacle. It was a great show. They played an encore set too. The crowd was loving it, really a lot going on there. It was a lot of fun, I felt it had a lot of rock influence to it. They didn't play their songs. It was an electronic show, so like all electronic shows, you know, they just sort of dj'd up there. Which was better, because I've overheard dvno and dance, and I dont like 'we are your friends'. But how they played we are your friends, was fucking awesome. We just rocked out for basically 2 hours. It was a decent set, I didnt' feel it was too short at all, although it wasn't long.

So yea, Atlanta has good food. This restaurant was awesome, not a dissapointment at all! And I here there is 'restaruant eugene', someone who said he knew the chefs at both of these places said he preferred that place, although bacchanalia is always touted as #1 in atlanta in just about every forum or publication, and then aria, anothier high tier restaurant. There's also empire state south, I dont think it's the same level, but supposed to be good southern 'breakfast for dinner' style I guess, and holeman and finch, and a few others that are good. And that iberian pig.

Oh yea, went to Morelli's ice cream. It was very gooey, but good ice cream. Would I get it over blue bell ice cream at the grocery store, which is just phenom fucking ice cream? Well, no. but it's close. I definitely enjoyed it. It's not bi-rite in san francisco, it's not carl's ice cream (the BEST fucking place in the country for ice cream, in the middle of nowhere basically in VA, well along 95, but it's 50s style ice cream and it's soft serve, made fresh there, and soft serve is always better than hard serve), but it was still pretty good. I think the 'thing' with this place is the flavors they have - they had maple ice cream, and then they put candied bacon brittle in it, with actual pieces of meaty bacon. It actually tasted great, it was like peanut brittle, but then tiny pieces of bacon in the brittle, and it went great with maple ice cream. The vanilla was probably their best flavor, I didn't care for their most popular flavor, salted caramel, which was just salty and like candied brittle flavor (it was great, but, just, not vanilla or maple bacon brittle awesome). I wasn't dissapointed, even though it's probably not better than blue bell ice cream. I'm glad I tried it out, although I probably won't ever go back. I guess that sounds really harsh, but blue bell is REALLY fucking good lol.
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