Blog Topic: Food Roundup

Grub Notes: April Is Here to Fill You with FOMO Food Events

By Hillary Brown | March 31, 2017 10:20am

Photo Credit: White Tiger

White Tiger celebrates its 10th anniversary on Friday.

If you've been in Athens for more than a year, you know that April is the month in which any day of the week probably has 16 different events parked on it, from G-Day to Plantapalooza, Fluke, Insectival and so on.

This weekend kicks things off, with the following opportunities to eat and/or purchase the ingredients to make delicious food. You don't have to make it to everything, and there's probably no way you can.

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Grub Notes: Meal Kits From The National, Cinnaholic's 'Grand Opening' and More Tidbits

By Hillary Brown | March 15, 2017 10:20am

As part of her fundraising for Project Safe's Dancing With the Athens Stars, Airee Edwards (seen above with her Team 6 partner) has teamed up with Peter Dale of The National to offer Blue Apron-type meal kits, available for a limited time. As the saying goes, give the man a fish cooked by Peter Dale, he'll eat for a day; buy the man a meal kit that teaches him how to cook like Peter Dale, and he might actually learn something.

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Grub Notes: Cafe Istanbul and Takorea Open Downtown; RIP Ryan's and The Savory Spoon

By Hillary Brown | January 4, 2017 9:45am

Photo Credit: Cafe Istanbul via Facebook.

Cafe Istanbul's Decatur location has had a couple of famous guests.

It took a little while, and it wasn't met with much hoopla, but the Athens location of Cafe Istanbul is open, next to Utage on Clayton Street. It still isn't listed on the Atlanta-based restaurant's website, which does include the Decatur, Kennesaw and Alpharetta locations, but you can at least take a look at the menu there. It features meze, kebabs, zatar bread and wonderful Turkish pizza, topped with everything that will give you terrible breath but tastes amazing.

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Grub Notes: Where to Buy or Eat Your Thanksgiving Dinner in Athens

By Hillary Brown | November 11, 2016 11:00am

Photo Credit: Student150/Wikimedia Commons

ORDER ALL OF THE PIES

One thing you can be thankful for in Athens is that we have many, many local restaurants more than willing to cook some delicious food for your Thanksgiving dinner in exchange for your dollars (and, in one case, not even for that). Here’s the list of what we know: how to order, what the deadlines are, whether they’re offering turkey or just sides and so on. We'll update it as info comes in.

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Grub Notes: Donna Chang's and Wok's Up Are Open, and Other Food News

By Hillary Brown | October 18, 2016 11:05am

Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook

Donna Chang's

The much-anticipated Donna Chang's, in Five Points, is kinda, sorta open for business, and from what I hear, has been very busy despite a very quiet soft open. For now, it's dinner only, five nights a week (closed Tuesday and Wednesday; 5–10 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Sunday; 5–11 p.m. Friday and Saturday), but more nights and lunch will be added. Menu is up on the website linked.

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Grub Notes: La Dolce Vita, Hip Pops Are Closing

By Hillary Brown | October 6, 2016 2:04pm

Photo Credit: La Dolce Vita via Facebook

Let's just put all the bad news in one post. La Dolce Vita, upstairs from what was its sister restaurant, Etienne Brasserie, is now also closed, announcing its shuttering on Facebook. It's been a bad year for that block of Broad downtown, between Jackson and Wall streets, which now houses only the bar Bourbon Street.

Shiraz, which retails wine and snacks in the Leathers Buiding, on Pulaski, hasn't updated its Facebook page yet but has sent out an email announcing a temporary closing, with no date when it might reopen.

And Hip Pops, in the Tracy Street warehouses, has announced that it will close its retail location for good (although the popsicle cart will still show up at events and can be hired for catering) in the next few weeks.

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Grub Notes: Upcoming Food Events: Autumn Harvest, Taco Takedown and More

By Hillary Brown | September 16, 2016 2:13pm

Tomorrow night (Saturday, Sept. 17, starting at 7 p.m.), Hendershots, in the Bottleworks on Prince, is hosting a food/music/drink/fashion thingie called The Experience. The coffee bar/bar bar will provide drinks, Monsoon is playing music, and designer Kristen Stanfill will feature her clothes.

But what we're concerned with here is the food. It's being supplied by an LLC called Springhouse, registered in Augusta, that specializes in these kinds of events, and the menu looks appropriately interesting: sorghum caramel corn, fancy roasted vegetable tacos, chicken satay, a take on banana pudding, things like that. Tickets are $35 including online convenience fee and can be purchased from athensmusic.net.

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Grub Notes: Hankook Taqueria to Open Downtown and More Restaurant News

By Hillary Brown | August 31, 2016 9:52am

Photo Credit: Photo via Hankook Taqueria's Facebook page.

Atlanta's Hankook Taqueria—which has a location near Cross Creek on Atlanta's west side, a partnership with the Yumbii food truck and two sister restaurants (both called Takorea, one in midtown Atlanta and one in Buckhead)—will take over the former Etienne Brasserie space at Jackson and Broad in downtown Athens, opening in November. Owner Tomas Lee has a fairly serious pedigree, and his Korean-Mexican fusion has done well in Atlanta.

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Grub Notes: Avid Hosts Canning Book Signing, John Currence

By Hillary Brown | August 25, 2016 9:31am

If you're all fired up about canning after reading this week's Locavore, you should know that one-time Athenian Liana Krissoff will be signing the new (and expanded) edition of her book"Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry" today at 6:30 p.m. at Avid Bookshop, along with photographer Rinne Allen.

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Grub Notes: Watermelon Party, Athens Chefs Dinner and More Upcoming Food Events

By Hillary Brown | July 28, 2016 10:54am

This Sunday, Jul. 31 at 6 p.m., Little City Diner in Winterville will host a three-course farm-to-table dinner with ingredients by Collective Harvest and Community Meat Co. Tickets are $35. Reservations at 706-742-7590.

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