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" REDBOOK food editor Babs has been eating her way around the world! First Italy, now a little closer to home: Atlanta, Georgia. Mmm, Atlanta. Bet it&amp;#039;s warmer there than it is here in NY today (umm, 19 degrees!). Funny, I&amp;#039;ve been to Mitchell, South Dakota, spent a year in New Orleans, and hit nearly every state on the map\u2014but I have never been to Atlanta. After reading Babs&amp;#039; food report, it&amp;#039;s definitely on my list of places to visit! Here&amp;#039;s what she has to say: &amp;quot;I hadn&amp;#039;t been to Atlanta in quite a while and I heard the restaurant scene has gotten better and better lately, so I went down to see for myself how it had changed. I was not disappointed. &amp;quot;My first stop was lunch at Dogwood, a restaurant that had opened recently. They have a grits bar where they serve grits with three different kinds of toppings: braised mushrooms, butter poached lobster, and ham and pimento cheese.  They also offer a flight of soups and I had their buttermilk-fried &amp;quot;Springer Mountain&amp;quot; chicken breast with baked mac &amp;amp;amp; cheese and braised greens. Other dishes I tried were pan seared dayboat scallops, dirty rice cake with a chicken and oyster gumbo sauce, and sweet potato gnocchi with a brown butter-parmesan cream and toasted pecans. All were delicious. &amp;quot;Next I checked out an old favorite\u2014South City Kitchen, which is helmed by executive chef Dean Dupuis. I could have ordered everything on the menu, it all sounded so good\u2014and it turned out that it was! I had crisp buttermilk-fried oysters with smoked bacon, spinach salad with a creamy tarragon dressing, pan-fried chicken livers with country ham, caramelized onions, toasted brioche and creamed corn\u2014this was about the best, richest version of chicken livers I have ever eaten. That was followed by the smoked brisket sandwich, chicken and dumplings, and seafood jambalaya (below, check out the photo of me , ready to dive in.) And to finish, their banana pudding.  &amp;quot;Other favorite places not to be missed are 4th&amp;amp;amp; Swift where we had a tasting menu with crispy Brussels sprouts and North Georgia apple salad, braised lamb &amp;quot;lasagna,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Three Little Pigs&amp;quot;, a signature dish consisting of the loin, belly and house-made sausage with macaroni and cheese. I also tried several desserts, including an incredibly delicious warm pear crumb cake with a rum-raisin anglaise and cinnamon ice cream, pumpkin cr\u00E8me brulee with a pumpkin seed crisp, and chocolate espresso cake with malt sauce and caramel ice cream. At Watershed, Scott Peacock&amp;#039;s place, we had great catfish, roasted pork sandwiches with a fig conserve, and a dessert called Very Good Chocolate Cake, which it was. &amp;quot;Another favorite place was Restaurant Eugene. We had a tasting menu of tuna tartare with lime zest and crisp shallots, a gratin of oysters in a pernod-sunchoke cream w/parmesan, fennel and bacon, Gulf black grouper with a lemon risotto, lamb with pan-roasted veal sweetbreads and golden nugget fingerlings. The cheese course was very inventive: there was a grilled cheese brioche sandwich served with warm homemade strawberry preserves and a sticky apple pudding with buttermilk ice cream, toffee sauce and candied pecans.  Chef Linton Hopkins has out done himself with this fabulous menu. He has a second, more casual place called Holeman and Finch Public House just across from Restaurant Eugene, which also serves terrific food. He has an amazing burger that is not listed on the menu and is only served at 10PM. &amp;quot;Restaurant 1280 at the High Museum of Art is a good place to go after visiting the museums for lunch or dinner. I had a wonderful butternut squash pot de cr\u00E8me with almond biscuit cookies and a ginger cream from the lounge menu.  &amp;quot;If you want to eat a really rich breakfast, go to Parish for down-home New Orleans fare. Try a specialty like the savory crawfish and chicken sausage cheesecake with a creole meuniere sauce (see photo, below), or chicken pontalba with andouille hash and a hollandaise sauce.  &amp;quot;Bacchanalia, which has been in Atlanta for quite awhile, really lives up to it glowing reputation. We had a special lunch of cauliflower soup with caramelized cauliflower, saut\u00E9ed chicken with roasted fingerling potato salad, and a pear brown butter tart with a pistachio streusel topping, orange gelato and salty caramel\u2014fabulous! I also loved their store, Provisions, where you can get savory and sweet treats to go. I had a super moist chocolate cupcake with a creamy espresso frosting, a brown sugar cookie, and pumpkin tart. &amp;quot;There were so many other wonderful restaurants I wasn&amp;#039;t able to go to but this taste of Atlanta perked up my palate for a return visit.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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