Apr 042011

We capped off Restaurant Week with a visit to Wisteria in Inman Park.  The menu concentrates on nouvelle Southern but certainly has enough variety to satisfy pretty much anyone.  I must say that we enjoyed ourselves and were impressed with the food.  We also thought that the $25 three-course meal was a very good value with generous portions.

I started with the crayfish and corn fritters.  They were very well executed as fritters but I couldn't discern either crayfish or corn.  (Mom's really are the best.)  But I didn't mind too much because they were so satisfyingly crunchy.

Having learned my lesson from Rathbun's, I went for the trout.  It was prepared in a French style with a twist.  It came with butter sauce and almonds but the sauce had a touch of vinegar, which was noticeably different than what you would get from wine.  I also noticed a little sweet, which gave just a suggestion of sweet-and-sour.  The sour note was, I think, a very good idea that set off the trout very well.

Dessert was a sampler of three desserts, all of which were great.

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Apr 032011
As part of Restaurant Week, I visited Rathbun's with a group of friends.  As you can see from the photo, Rathbun's shares some of the design characteristics that I noticed at Kevin Rathbun Steak: an entrance secret enough to be the envy of the CIA (and I don't mean the Culinary Institute of America), a hip industrial/modern interior, and a youngish crowd (present company excepted).
This was the first course a sopressata served with cheese, bread, and a very small amount of what seemed to be a marmalade.  The slices of sopressata were so thin that I had a hard time really discerning its taste, but it certainly qualified as light.
My red meat cravings got the best of me and I ordered the hangar steak served on a bed of polenta.  It was very good---I particularly enjoyed the pairing with the polenta---but I should have ordered the Georgia trout.  Everyone who had the trout said it was wonderful.
My cravings served me well for dessert. I had a piece of chocolate cake with a marshmallow cream topping.  The marshmallow cream really complemented the cake very well.
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