Canoe in Atlanta

[potsticker]

So a friend's looking for somewhere romantic to take someone special sometime soon, and I thought I'd suggest Canoe. Any thoughts?

Edited June 21, 2005 by potsticker (log)

[Gifted Gourmet]

Yes, Canoe is quite lovely and very romantic! The food is interesting and exceedingly well prepared. The menus are here on their website:

Canoe

Canoe is located in Atlanta's historic Vinings area on the Chattahoochee River where Buckhead meets Vinings.  Canoe's beautiful historic riverside setting makes it the perfect spot for weddings, receptions and private celebrations.

Its original cuisine and distinctive design have already been featured in Bon Appetit, Food And Wine, Gourmet, The Wine Spectator and The New York Times. Canoe, recipient of the prestigious Mobil 4 Star Award ...

[therese]

Canoe's generally good, but I find the romantic aspect of it to be largely limited to the outside area by the river. The inside feels a bit like a lodge (in an upmarket way---the decor actually includes canoes), and can be fairly loud, so unless that's your idea of romantic it might not be your first choice, particularly now that summer's here and even the evening's may too hot for comfortable dining al fresco.

The web site that Gifted Gourmet links to needs some updating, the chef listed (Garry Mennie) has been replaced by a woman (whose name I can't recall at the moment---something that doesn't immediately sound like a woman's name). Mennie's opening a new place, Taurus.

My first pick for romantic in the conventional dark and cozy dining room kind of way in Atlanta is The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, though they're between chefs at the moment. Another option is La Grotta, traditional upmarket/old school Italian, intimate dining room, etc.

[TheFoodTutor]

The web site that Gifted Gourmet links to needs some updating, the chef listed (Garry Mennie) has been replaced by a woman (whose name I can't recall at the moment---something that doesn't immediately sound like a woman's name).

Carvel Grant.

[therese]

The web site that Gifted Gourmet links to needs some updating, the chef listed (Garry Mennie) has been replaced by a woman (whose name I can't recall at the moment---something that doesn't immediately sound like a woman's name).

Carvel Grant.

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Thanks. I met her at Taste of the Nation last month and she seemed pretty cool. It's be interesting to see what she does with Canoe, Mennie having been there so long and so closely identified with the restaurant.

[Gifted Gourmet]

It's be interesting to see what she does with Canoe, Mennie having been there so long and so closely identified with the restaurant.

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Carvel Grant Gould, who most recently headed the kitchen at the now-closed ¡Che! in Buckhead can be found at Canoe. For eight of the past nine years, she served as chef de cuisine at Canoe, moving to ¡Che! when the company opened it last year...

from the curent Hudspeth Report