Atlanta Restaurant

[dananne]

Had a delightful meal last night. I opened with a Chehalem Willamette Valley "Cerise" pinot noir and my wife opted for The Crossings pinot noir from Marlborough (NZ). Both by the glass. Wine list and menu were a touch different from that which is on their web site, but not inferior. For munchies, we had the olive oil sampler platter -- two Italian and one Spanish oil. Bread was nice to clean the palate, as we tasted each other's pinots. The Crossings tasted a bit young, and was tart with some grassiness to it. High acidity, making it almost resemble a chianti. We liked the Chehalem better -- nicely extracted, good depth with black cherries, a mineral element, and fine tannins holding it all together. Service was very efficient. Our meals were out in a hurry. My wife had the prawns, and they looked fantastic. She polished them off very quickly, and raved about them for some time afterward. I had the vegetable platter (the only bad part of being a vegetarian, on most days). Despite my eying her prawns entre, I was very happy with it, and they did something magical with the organic artichokes on the plate. I couldn't describe them if I tried. We both opted for dessert, with her's being a butterscotch custard with some little chocolate, doughnut-like puffs. She washed it down with a late harvest muscat from Eos. I had a glass of 1982 Osborne port with lavendar-pecan biscotti and zinfandel sorbet. The sorbet was out of this world. I could have easily eaten my weight in it. All in all, a very fine evening. We'll go back there for sure. We could have eaten and drunk more, but we had a bottle of pinot waiting for us at home (see my Belle Glos post). In hindsight, it was a disappointment, so perhaps we should have stayed for another glass of wine.