Certainly one of my favourite eating places in Atlanta is Gunshow, High Chef alum Kevin Gillespie’s progressive Glenwood Park restaurant that options small plates which might be ready by a number of cooks after which distributed across the eating room on rolling carts like beefy and porky dim sum service. This format lends itself to visitor cooks who can exhibit inventive dishes with out having to fret about how they mesh with the remainder of the menu.
Since 2013, Gillespie has hosted a “Employed Weapons” dinner sequence, and over time he has invited cooks comparable to Mason Hereford, Vishwesh Bhatt, Kelsey Barnard Clark, Vivian Howard, Joe Kindred, Kristen Kish, Niven Patel, Brian Voltaggio, Brooke Williamson and Tandy Wilson to take part within the enjoyable. For this yr’s Employed Weapons, Gunshow is providing a season move that features two seats to all six of the visitor chef dinners. If the sequence doesn’t promote out upfront, they are going to provide single-event tickets, however I wouldn’t wager on that.
Chef Brian Baxter
To ensure the sequence sells out, Gillespie has seemed to Nashville for his lead-off hitter. Brian Baxter has been taking up some visitor chef gigs across the nation since leaving The Catbird Seat, and he beforehand labored with Gillespie because the opening chef at his short-lived restaurant Chilly Beer. The group will likely be again collectively for one evening solely on Sunday, Jan. 26. Different cooks who will likely be dropping in on Sunday nights at Gunshow this yr embody Kevin Chrisman of Golden Hour in Asheville, N.C., Jill Mathias & Juan Casselett of the fabulous Chez Nous and Malagón Mercado y Tapería in Charleston, S.C., and Neil Zabriskie of Regards in Portland, Maine. You possibly can try the complete lineup and buy your season move on the Employed Weapons webpage.
As I discussed final week, my colleague Margaret Littman is doing the Lord’s work by compiling suggestions from the atlas of vacation pop-up bars and eating places taking place round city this month, however I’ve a non-pop-up I wished to share. Moderately than go excessive with vacation decorations that seem like a Greenback Tree exploded, Tandy Wilson and the workers at Metropolis Home have determined to let the meals do the speaking in relation to vacation cheer.
By means of the vacations, they’re bringing again a few of their most beloved traditions, vacation ham, a snowfall of truffles and Christmas cookies! They’ll be carving Smiley Hole Farms by hand in addition to providing tableside shavings of luxurious truffles to raise the already vaunted pizzas and different dishes on the Metropolis Home menu. It’s market value for the truffles, so don’t overlook to say “when,” except you’re actually going all out for the vacations! They’re additionally introducing some wine-by-the-glass specials to complement the already implausible regular record.
Lastly, Metropolis Home pastry genius Rebekah Turshen will be the precise motive for the season together with her standard choice of to-go baked items. Be the hit of any vacation social gathering if you arrive with considered one of her well-known Tennessee Waltz Desserts, a Malted Vanilla Mint Cake, or a Vacation Cookie Field together with frosted vanilla shortbread sprinkle timber, chocolate espresso mint marshmallow cookies, milk chocolate dipped marble cookies, Italian piped jam cookies, anise marriage ceremony cookies and a particular shock. Or heck, simply hold them for your self! Desserts can be found for $50, and packing containers of cookies are $45; they are often bought on Metropolis Home’s web site.
