(WSB Radio) A lunch at Mrs. Winner's was anything but on Monday ... East Point Police Detective Cliff Chandler tells WSB an Atlanta firefighter was eating lunch at the Mrs. Winners on Headland Drive and McAlpine Drive, when a man decided to hold up the place just after 1 o'clock ... "When he observed that the robbery was taking place, he fled the restaurant in an attempt to seek cover. As he was fleeing, the other firefighters who were on the apparatus observed this and they also sought
Downtown Atlanta Restaurant Week, an event which gives Atlantans the opportunity to experience some of the city's finest dining at a special, fixed price, will run even longer this year to accomodate more diners ... The event is scheduled for July 27 - August 9 and will feature more than twenty restaurants ... $25 at each restaurants gets you a three-course meal including an appetizer, entree, and dessert ... The participating restaurants this year are: 0 Tables, Atlanta Grill, Avanzare
Monday, July 20 will mark a special occasion for the Midtown restaurant Dogwood ... To commemorate the restaurant's one year anniversary, owners Scott Black and Shane Touhy have prepared a special five-course dinner menu that's sure to please, along with a tasting of award-winning Falcor Winery wines ... A wine maker from the Napa Valley winery will be present at the event to formally present the tasting to be paired with the anniversary menu ... Ten percent of the proceeds made July 20th will
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) As a tyke growing up in Marietta, Ga., Melanie Oudin would watch Venus and Serena Williams on TV and tell anyone who would listen that she was going to play at Wimbledon, too, one day ... Who knew she'd be right? And do so well, so quickly? ... Making her Wimbledon debut at age 17 after getting through qualifying, the 124th-ranked Oudin joined the Williams sisters in the fourth round at the All England Club by beating former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-2
JCT. Kitchen & Bar's first annual Attack of the Killer Tomato Fest will take place on Sunday, August 9th from 1 pm to 6 pm ... The event will feature some of Atlanta's best chefs, farmers, and mixologists and will benefit Georgia Organics ... Each featured chef will be paired with a farmer to create a tomato tasting dish for guests to sample ... Paticipating chefs include Ford Fry, owner and executive chef of JCT. Kitchen & Bar, Gerry Klaskala of Aria, Keira Moritz of Pacci Ristorante and
Dan Barash, director of research and development for Moe's Southwest Grill, worked his way on a recent morning through a replica of Moe's kitchen assembled in an office building on the outskirts of Atlanta. Barash spent the first part of his career as a chef at fine-dining eateries, such as the Capital Grille and Roy's, where entrees alone could hit $40. But on this day, Barash and a small crew were busy whipping up more than a dozen burritos, quesadillas and rice bowls designed to sell for $7
The 2009 Decatur Book Festival is set for Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-6, and the line-up of authors is amazing. Sir Harold Evans, former Sunday Times editor and Random House president, will be the keynote speaker. Also appearing: Lee Child, Kathy Reichs, Robert Olen Butler, Douglas Blackmon, Edward Hirsch, Natasha Trethewey, Felice Picano, C. Dale Young, Kathryn Stockett, Patricia Smith, Thomas Lux, Rick Bragg and many more ... Along with all the writers, there's going to be some other
This Saturday, June 27th, Top Chef and Atlantan Richard Blais will host an interactive cooking demonstration at the Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points ... Chef Blais will use and demonstrate his unique expertise in gastronomy for the audience, featuring liquid nitrogen and a slew of other unconventional "gadgets", to prepare a three-course meal and lead a discussion on gastronomy and the future of fine dining ... The demonstration will take place at 3 pm at the Variety Playhouse at 1099
This summer's Corks and Forks Fine Food & Wine Event, a part of Atlanta's Seventh Annual Summer Shade Festival, will take place in Historic Grant Park the weekend of August 29th from 1 - 5 pm ... The two-day affair will feature dishes from Atlanta's top chefs complemented by international wine pairings and beer tastings ... Restaurants participating in the 2009 Corks and Forks event include: Babette's Cafe Bhojanic Cabot Creamery Canoe Dolce ENO Food 101 Geisha House JCT Kitchen
To better please guests, Concentrics Restaurants will close the main dining room of TROIS restaurant for renovations to be completed by summer's end ... The Bar at TROIS will remain open Tuesday through Saturday from 5:30 pm until close and will served a dinner menu by Chef Todd Ginsberg ... The restaurant's event space will also remain open ... A new restaurant concept is scheduled to take over all three spaces in September 2009 ... Renovations to the restaurant come in response to focus groups