Drift Fish House & Oyster Bar, East Cobb’s premier destination for approachable, chef-driven seafood, has tied the knot with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watchprogram to become Georgia’s first official Seafood Watch Restaurant Partner. Although Drift owner Doug Turbush and executive chef Tom Hill already strive to source from high-quality purveyors and avoid serving overfished species, this pledge formalizes a commitment to serving only seafood rated a “Best Choice” or “Good Alternative” and to educating customers, suppliers and employees about sustainability issues. Turbush and Hill have undergone a thorough vetting of seafood species and sources through a globally respected organization and reworked menu items so guests can be confident that any choice they make on the menu supports the health of our oceans now and for future generations. The Drift crew encourages guests to use the Seafood Watch app to help them make better decisions when purchasing or ordering seafood. Currently, more than 1,000 businesses at 150,000 locations worldwide count on Seafood Watch science when making informed purchasing decisions. Read more about Drift’s sustainable efforts in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Drift and Seafood Watch -- both are keepers.
Les Grand Chais de France, the number-one privately owned winemaker in France, provides wines for an exciting Bordeaux Wine Dinner experience at Stem Wine Bar on Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Guest Maxime Lillet will introduce the night’s wine selections chosen by Stem general manager/sommelier Chris McNeill to complement a five-course menu created by chef/owner Doug Turbush and chef John Flagello. Menu highlights and pairings include warm CalyRoad aged goat cheese, prosciutto di Georgia, orange marmalade, toasted walnuts and baguette served with Helfrich dry Riesling, Alsace; absinthe-cured king salmon with pink grapefruit, crème fraiche, torn sourdough crouton and tarragon paired with Chateau Fonfroide white, Bordeaux; duck leg confit with red wine-braised red cabbage and grain mustard joined by Chateau Laroque 2012, St. Emilion Grand Cru Bordeaux; grilled spinalis with Yukon potato confit, autumn mushrooms and sauce bordelaise paired with Chateau Laroque 2010 and 1996, St. Emilion Grand Cru Bordeaux; and dessert of maple pots de crème with almond praline served with Helfrich gewürtztraminer, Alsace (menu subject to change based on availability). Limited space, buy tickets in advance, $119 per person (includes tax and gratuity).
East Cobb’s acclaimed Seed Kitchen & Bar has launched a Chef’s Harvest menu to share the abundance of farm-fresh seasonal produce coming to market this time of year. Chef/owner Doug Turbush drives the specially curated three-course dinner menus, new each week, pushing culinary boundaries with innovative, flavor-packed dishes. Guests choose from two small plates, two entrées and two dessert options from the Chef’s Harvest menu, offered Monday through Thursday from 3-10 p.m. Examples of menu items include appetizers such as white gazpacho or crispy flatbread, entrées like cornmeal-crusted catfish or mole-braised pork cheeks, and sweet finishes such as tres leches cake or lemon cake. $35 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Add wine pairings for an additional $15 per person. The menu changes each week and is announced on the restaurant’s Facebook page and via email every Sunday. Oh, and there’s another catalyst for the Chef’s Harvest menu -- the highly successful and weekly changing Chef’s Catch $35 prix fixe menu at sister restaurant Drift Fish House & Oyster Bar. The best of land and sea is all yours.
Hit record; kings and thrones can wait. Game of Rhones wine tastings conquer Wednesday nights at East Cobb’s Stem Wine Bar during the month of January. Owner and chef Doug Turbush and sommelier Chris McNeill welcome wine lovers to their kingdom for an informative tasting of varietals originating in France’s famed Rhone Valley realm and royally paired with six small bites. Wine tastings run 6:30-8 p.m. and cost $40 per person (plus $3.19 service fee; gratuity added at in-store checkout). Space is limited so click on your preferred tasting date and buy tickets today for wine tastings on Jan. 4, Jan. 11, Jan. 18 and Jan. 25.
East Cobbers can cha cha their way into spirit days at Tin Lizzy’s Cantina to celebrate the grand opening of their 13th location at The Avenue East Cobb. Now through Friday, Tin Lizzy’s is donating 10% of sales to benefit schools in the surrounding area. That’s not all! In addition to those donations, Atlanta’s favorite FlexMex cantina is featuring specials and live music all week long. Today, Pope High School Greyhounds can celebrate the end of the school day with $2 tacos after 2 p.m. Wednesdays are for Walton High School PTSA, where the first 50 tables get a chip salt to take home. Enter to win a kayak giveaway on Thursday and toast your luck while Sweetwater takes over the taps from 6-8 p.m. Savor every sip on Friday from 6-8 p.m. while sampling Tin Lizzy’s blood orange margarita, a colorful, potent blend of Casa Nobles Organic tequila and Napa blood orange juice. Consider your weekday plans made.
Umlauts, double consonants, gothic letters. Perhaps the words on German wine labels are challenging to pronounce. The wines themselves are oh so easy to enjoy. Explore the wine regions and varietals of Germany during August with Stem Wine Bar sommelier Chris McNeill. Each Wednesday night tasting features six different German wines paired with small bites prepared by Stem owner/chef Doug Turbush. Events begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 each (plus small service fee). Twenty percent gratuity will be added at in-store checkout on event night. Buy tickets, advance sales only, by clicking the desired date: August 3, August 10,August 17, August 24 or August 31.
Starting Wednesday, June 1, OTP-ers feeling landlocked at lunchtime can easily sail into Drift Fish House & Oyster Bar at The Avenue East Cobb for their midday meal. Doug Turbush’s Marietta restaurant known for high-quality, sustainable and fresh seafood will serve lunch daily from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Executive chef Brendan Keenan casts a midday menu with starters, sandwiches, “Catch” seafood entrées, soups and salads and raw bar favorites such as peel-and-eat shrimp and raw oysters. Lunch nets a school of dinner specialties as well, including lobster rolls served warm with drawn butter or cold with lemon mayo and chowder fries topped with Benton’s bacon, fried clams and Fresno chile. The Drift burger is always a hit with landlubbers and comes stacked with American cheese and wood-grilled onions and a heap of fries. The AJC recently reeled Drift’s lobster rolls onto its list of “7 lobster rolls you’ll be eating this summer.” All the more reason to Drift over for lunch.
Popcorn and soda a weak Jedi knight does make. How can The Force be with you when hunger pangs of the dark side strike during a key maneuver? Before zooming off to conquer galaxies far, far away, park the space racer at one of these Atlanta restaurants conveniently located near metro theaters when “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opens Friday, December 18. Farm-fresh chicken and sides at Chick-a-Biddy in Atlantic Station will sustain Padawans of all ages (kids menu, too) before strapping into Regal Atlantic Station’s stadium seats for an IMAX 3D or big-screen showing. Bantam + Biddy in Lenox Square Mall is a short transport across Peachtree Road from Phipps Plaza AMC screens and an ideal place to alight for a pre-matinee breakfast or a meal on either side of an afternoon or evening showing. At Alpharetta’s Avalon, Bantam + Biddy and Marlow’s Tavern rule the galaxy offering hearty, not heavy fare, beer, wine and spirits, just steps away from Regal Avalon. Park once for dinner and the movie if the destination is Merchant’s Walk Stadium Cinemas in East Cobb -- Marlow’s Tavern and Seed Kitchen & Bar are both located in the same shopping center. For Mall of Georgia Star Wars fans, taco the force with FlexMex and margaritas at Tin Lizzy’s Cantina or with all-American favorites at Marlow’s Tavern. A good meal and a movie? A Jedi craves these things.
Marlow’s Tavern, Seed Kitchen & Bar and Stem Wine Bar are three restaurants offering samples at the Taste of East Cobb going on Saturday, May 2 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in The Fountains of Olde Towne at 736 Johnson Ferry Road in Marietta. Tastes from East Cobb’s best restaurants take top billing, backed by live music and entertainment; a Kid’s Zone with inflatables, sand and spin art and face painting; a raffle and silent auction and a hotly contested “Best Taste of East Cobb” competition. Free admission; taste tickets cost $1 each, and offerings are priced from one to five tickets. Buy taste tickets at the event, or to save some bucks, buy tickets online and pick them up at the event pre-sale booth.
Remember how awkward and hectic registering for classes in school used to be? Things are a lot different at The Cook's Warehouse. This time, you can pour yourself a glass of wine or cup
of tea and open up the Winter 2014 class schedule to select some learning ops in a class
led by a visiting or local chef. January's healthy topics include
"Discover Vitamix," elegant low-fat French food, exploring a
plant-based diet, New Year's resolution recipe makeovers, "New Year, New
You," heart-healthy cooking, baby food basics and more. The catalog
continues with global cuisines, knife skills, entertaining, breakfasts, baking
- the fabulously filling list goes on and on. All four locations offer a variety of classes, so you can study up in Midtown, Brookhaven, East Cobb and Decatur. All
classes include recipes, samples of food prepared, complimentary beverages plus
a 10 percent discount off in-store purchases before and after class that day.
Never stop learning... or cooking!
The Big Green Egg has been grilling, smoking
and baking crowd-pleasing dishes for over 30 years.The
Cook's Warehouse in East Cobb is showing off the wonders of this green machine
throughout the day on June 29 and is inviting BGE masters and admirers to join
the fun. Demonstrations and special appearances, like Jessie Lysiak of
"MasterChef", will go on from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. with meats provided by
Brasstown Beef, Thompson Farms and Springer Mountain Farms. Plus, love for the
BGE will be egg-pressed in the form of prizes and giveaways - what could be
better!
