Atlanta Food & Wine Festival reimagined amid pandemic

By INtown Staff

In light of COVID-19 and in an effort to give back to the restaurant community its celebrated for the past 10 years, the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival (AF&WF) will hold a series of digital seminars and select socially distanced meals Sept. 10 – 19.

This year’s event will forgo the festival and instead present 13 digital seminars, called AF&WF At Home Edition Presented by Publix, as well as 11 dinners, two lunches and one brunch, all with limited, socially distanced seating. One hundred percent of ticket sales from the digital seminars will benefit the talent and 70 percent of ticket sales from the chef experiences will go back to the restaurants.

“COVID-19 has had a life-altering impact on the restaurant community that has helped build this festival to internationally known status over the last 10 years,” said Brett Friedman, CEO of Agency 21 Consulting. “We are leveraging our platform to drive business and revenue back to them as a show of solidarity for our partners and friends.”

Special virtual guests at this year’s event include chefs Ron Hsu, James Kerwin, Deborah VanTrece, John Castelluci Misti Norris, and Erik BrunerYang. There will also be a pie masterclass with Pie Bar’s Lauren Bolden to a seafood couvillion with crab fat rice from Isaac Toups and curry in a hurry from Miami culinary sensation, Timon Balloo. For a list of digital seminars, visit atlfoodandwinefestival.com/athome.

Dining events will include a special collaboration dinner with Chef Jeb Aldrich, Chef Matt Weinstein and Chef Claudia Martinez at Tiny Lou’s, An Evening in Provence dinner with AIX’s Nick Leahy or The Pasta & Vinyl Experience presented by Chef Craig Richards at Lyla Lilah.

Tickets for chef experiences range from $95 to $200 and $10 for the seminars. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit atlfoodandwinefestival.com.

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Quick Bites

Con Leche, a coffee bar offering specialty coffee and baked goods for those on-the-go, will open in Reynoldstown this fall. The 400 square foot space at 181 Flat Shoals Road is expected to open early-October, and offer a simple menu including drip coffee, cold brew, cappuccinos and lattes. Con Leche will offer a membership program that includes unlimited drip and iced coffee, and a $1 discount on all espresso drinks for $10 a week. The membership will be piloted with 100 members and refine prior to expanding further. For updates and information, visit ConLecheCoffee.com.

Ju-C Bar is opening a second location in late fall at Krog Street Market in Inman Park offering made to order fresh juices, smoothies, organic açai bowls, superfood bowls, salads, wraps, and small bites.

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►Fowling Warehouse is now open in the Blandtown neighborhood on the Westside offering food and games. The restaurant menu, created by Chef Demetrius Brown, features burgers with pimento cheese, wings, barbecue shrimp, Philly cheesesteak and more. While noshing, guests can play a round of Fowling (pronounced FOH-ling), whcih combines football and bowling using a regulationsized football and 20 bowling pins.

Apt. 4B is now open in the former 1 Kept space on Peachtree Street in Buckhead. The menu from Chef Dayana Joseph offers a mélange of Caribbean and French flavors like duck wings a l’orange, cracked conch with a Scotch Bonnet pepper emulsion, oxtail bucatini, cashew chicken roulade, and roasted mackerel escovitch. For more visit apt4batl.com.

Chef Hugh Acheson has opened an online wine shop, ESS Bottle Shop, based at his Empire State South restaurant in Midtown. The virtual market is run by the restaurant’s longtime sommelier Steven Grubbs. ESS Bottle Shop will offer 20 or more wines each week in the shop, ranging from the expensive and rare to wallet friendly. Wines will be available for pickup at the restaurant Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 8 p.m.

◄Perc Coffee Roasters has opened its first Atlanta shop next at the Hosea + 2nd development in East Lake. The Savannah-based coffee and bake shop currently has a walk-up window with patio seating but will eventually offer dine-in once the pandemic numbers shift. Visit perccoffee.com for more information.

►Hero Doughnuts & Buns is now open at 33 Georgia Avenue in Summerhill offering a variety of doughnuts, sandwiches, and burgers. Visit herodoughnutsandbuns.com for the full menu.

Biltong Bar’s Butcher & Bottle Shop, a pop-up shop open on Wednesdays from noon to 5 p.m. at Ponce City Market. The South African-inspired restaurant and cocktail is offering a variety house-made biltong (South African beef jerky); a bottled selection of best-selling cocktails; retail items like bottled peri-peri sauce and signature spice rubs; and cases of select cuts of steak, including cowboy ribeyes, prime strip steaks and black wagyu filets from Halpern’s. See the full menu at biltong-bar.com.

►Ted’s Montana Grill is now offering premium steak cuts and fresh burger grinds for next day delivery with its Butcher Shoppe program. Ted’s Butcher Shoppe features American bison raised without hormones or steroids and Certified Angus Beef. The aged steaks are hand-cut to order and the high-quality meat is ground twice daily before safely packaging to arrive fresh, never frozen. Options include the Delmonico Ribeye, Ted’s Filet, New York Strip, Ground Beef or Ground Bison, complete with Ted’s proprietary seasoning. Visit TedsButcherShoppe. com to place an order.