Restaurant Review, Creative Loafing Atlanta

Review: Latitude

Besha Rodell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:00 -0500

Buckhead gets a global option at Phipps Plaza by Besha Rodell Shopping and dining. It was never a concept that held much appeal to me, and yet it's a revered tradition, particularly among ladies of leisure.…

The search for the perfect Midtown hangout

Eric Celeste — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500

Finding the right 'barstaurant' by Eric Celeste It was the Tex-Mex place that sent me over the edge. The Tweet from WhatNowAtlanta.com came over the transom explaining that a Tex-Mex restaurant was scheduled to open near Seventh and Peachtree streets, two blocks from my apartment and smack-dab in the middle of Midtown.…

Review: Octopus Bar

Besha Rodell — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0500

Late-night dining in East Atlanta Village by Besha Rodell I'm sitting at a table on a patio surrounded by graffiti on one of the coldest nights of the year. It's a patio but not a patio in that it has walls, wooden walls, but they're not really walls, not in the traditional sense.…

Review: Southern Art

Besha Rodell — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:00 -0500

Chef Art Smith's new restaurant in the InterContinental Buckhead by Besha Rodell It is an act of supreme hubris to waltz into Atlanta and presume to have something to tell us about Southern food. Of course, it can be done.…

Review: Barcelona Wine Bar

Besha Rodell — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:00:00 -0500

Channeling Spain with tapas, wine and fun in Inman Park by Besha Rodell Step into Barcelona Wine Bar and it hits you immediately — that crackle in the air, that new restaurant excitement. I have missed that excitement during these long dark months of recession and restaurant stagnation.…

Review: HD1

Besha Rodell — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:00:00 -0500

Richard Blais brings cheap fun to Poncey-Highland by Besha Rodell I understand the merit of a good burger. A good burger, at its best, is a celebration of grease and meat: the mighty, juicy yawp of carnivorism and calorific glory.…

Review: Bacchanalia

Besha Rodell — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:00:00 -0500

Can the grande dame of Atlanta fine dining retain its reputation as the best the city has to offer? by Besha Rodell Bacchanalia, the restaurant that is widely touted as Atlanta's best, exists in a kind of vacuum. As the restaurant landscape around it changes, Bacchanalia remains steady, a pure distillation of chef/owners Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison's vision.…