Quick Bites

Ray Schoenbaum, original owner of Rio Bravo and founder of Ray’s Restaurants, has announced he will open a Ray’s Rio Bravo (raysriobravo.com) in Sandy Springs in the former Peter Chang’s space by Cinco de Mayo 2015. Schoenbaum made the decision to open the restaurant after high demand from customers requesting the return of the restaurant’s iconic dishes.

You don’t have to drive to Decatur anymore for chicken schnitzel now that Seven Hens (7hens.com) has opened a second location at Abernathy Square Shopping Center, 6615 Roswell Road, in Sandy Springs. “The fact that schnitzel is hugely popular in Europe and around the world but not so much in the United States is mind-boggling to me… Because it’s so good! I love how satisfying it is and love the crunchy and soft texture,” founder Michael Gurevich said.

Famed Atlanta chef Kevin Gillespie will profess his devotion to swine in a new 240-page cookbook, Pure Pork Awesomeness, which will be published by Andrews McMeel in March 2015.

Meals On Wheels Atlanta and the Peachtree Road Farmers Market at The Cathedral of St. Philip in Buckhead have partnered to bring locally grown vegetables to its clients. Meals On Wheels Atlanta purchases – at a discounted rate – vegetables left at the end of the Saturday market and delivers them to senior citizens. The farmers market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon through Dec. 13. For more information, visit peachtreeroadfarmersmarket.com.

Fox Brothers Restaurant Group closed Big Tex Decatur last month to focus on expansion of Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q , which was recently named the official barbecue of the Atlanta Falcons. The barbecue joint is currently building a new catering/ commissary facility on Ottley Drive. “The new commissary will really be a game changer for us and help meet the needs of our restaurant in Candler Park and future Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q restaurants,” said Jonathan Fox, Partner and Pitmaster of Fox Bros Bar-B-Q.

Esquire has named Gunshow (gunshowatl.com) in Glenwood Park as one of the country’s best new restaurants in its first annual American Food and Drink Awards Here’s what the magazine had to say: “Gunshow may just be the manliest restaurant in America. If not for the giant painting of a boar that serves as the place’s only decoration, it would look like an abandoned factory. You don’t know what to expect, other than a kitchen so ballsy and hypercreative – pork-skin risotto, foie gras with figs and Coca-Cola reduction – that you can’t figure on ever getting the same thing twice.”

Meals On Wheels Atlanta and the Peachtree Road Farmers Market at The Cathedral of St. Philip in Buckhead have partnered to bring locally grown vegetables to its clients. Meals On Wheels Atlanta purchases – at a discounted rate –vegetables left at the end of the Saturday market and delivers them to senior citizens. The farmers market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, visit peachtreeroadfarmersmarket.com.