Package Design

A cool self-promo piece designed for JCT by our very own Meggan Talley:

Blue Plate Grand Opening

Last night was the grand opening of Blue Plate in Sandy Springs, GA. See below for the sliders and gouda fritters:

Cakes & Ale Opens

Congrats to Cakes & Ale in Decatur, GA on a successful 'friends and family' opening night - official opening is on Thursday - here's a preview of our graphic work for the restaurant - a full overview to come.

Congrats to Green Olive Media Clients -- 2008 Beard Award Nominees

We are so proud of our clients who were nominated for the

2008 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards!

RISING STAR CHEF OF THE YEAR AWARD
Sean Brock
McCrady's, Charleston, SC


BEST CHEF: SOUTHEAST (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV)
Hugh Acheson
Five and Ten
Athens, GA

Linton Hopkins
Restaurant Eugene
Atlanta

For a complete list, view: http://www.jbfawards.com/content/2008-nominees

Just Eggs

A nice photo from a recent photoshoot at JCT - eggs with Benton's ham...

Nobody likes a...

Witness the power of the mini burgers at Ron's Restaurant*. So delicious, even Helene -- GOM alumna and self-proclaimed vegetarian -- couldn't resist.

*What die-hard fan Will Moore calls the sliders at Food 101: Morningside (Exec. Chef Ron Eyester)

Launch of Top Chef Website / Premiere Tonight

We've launched the Richard Blais website, just in time for the premiere of the new season of Top Chef, featuring Richard. Good luck...

This Week's Beers

Picked up a couple of new beers from Green's today - Rogue's Morimoto Soba Ale, which, as expected, was quite buckwheaty, and Pinkus Organic Hefeweizen, which is my new favorite wheat. Start stocking up on this for summer.

Bacon Of The Month Club - March

Our friend Ben was kind enough to sign us up for the Bacon Of The Month club, and our first shipment came in today. A pound of Burgers' Pepper Country Bacon showed up at the office, and was immediately cooked & devoured. The Grateful Palate describes it as well as I can - "sweet, chewy, tantalizing interplay of pepper with sugar-cured sweetness. Great with scrambled eggs." Indeed.

Elizabeth's Birthday @ Floataway Cafe

The folks at Floataway Cafe were nice enough to make Elizabeth a birthday cake shaped like a Manolo Blahnik...as well as a whole mess of other tasty stuff:

Charleston Food & Wine Festival

Just back from the Charleston Food & Wine festival. A few highlights:

Dinner at McCrady's featuring chef Sean Brock and guest David Chang of Momofuku. The menu featured: Momofuku Pork Buns / Alaskan Crab Tail / Cured Hamachi / South Carolina Ossabaw Pork / Short Rib of Beef / Carolina Gold Rice Pudding with Pappy Van Winkle Horchata

Just-off-the-boat crab claws, shad roe at FIG

Butcher plate at High Cotton

Drinks at Cypress

Sunday Barbecue featuring ribs from Blue Smoke and whole-hog barbecue from Ed Mitchell.

Sean Brock & David Chang:


Sean working on pork buns:


Elizabeth with Ed Mitchell:

Last-Minute Valentine's Plan

You could do worse than this:

Accidental Barbecue Tour

While on my way to a meeting north of Atlanta, I stumbled upon a couple of barbecue joints: Old McDonald's and Mountain Man BBQ. While I wanted to like Mountain Man, what with its location in an old school bus, piles of logs out front, and just lots of junk everywhere, Old McDonald won out - perhaps because he's stopped worrying about making pizza, apparently:
Old McDonald's pork sandwich:

Mountain Man's pile of logs:

JOËL Food Photos

Here are some of our photos of a few items from JOËL's menu:

Designers Charles and Ray Eames To Be Honored By US Postal Service

In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public.

J'aime la Bière!

A nice Saturday afternoon stroll through the store brought this home. Check back soon to see what will become of this extravagant collection...

Just a Good Burger

Nothing fancy, just a solid burger from McCray's in Lawrenceville, GA:

Owl Beer Spotted In Atlanta

We've been enjoying the Hitachino White Ale at JCT in Atlanta recently...let's hope it catches on...

James Brown Dinner

Tonight, the good people at Food 101 hosted a dinner honoring the music and the food of James Brown. Featured on the menu:

Red bean soup:


Fried oysters:


Shrimp & dirty rice:


Country fried pork chop:


Sweet potato tart:

Paul Gant's Bar-B-Que - Port St. Joe, Florida

Hard to believe that the world's best barbecue doesn't come from Tennessee, North Carolina or Georgia, but Florida's panhandle. Paul Gant's trailer on the side of Highway 98 in Port St. Joe, FL serves up pig that's miles above anyone else's:

Where the magic happens: