Friday, June 6, 2008
Restaurants The Shed at Glenwood
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM
We dined at The Shed at Glenwood (475 Bill Kennedy Way, Glenwood Park, 404-835-4363) last Saturday night. The menu here is another attempt at farm-to-table cooking and changes daily. Chef Daniel Atwood is a veteran of Tom Catherall's Here to Serve Restaurants (like Prime and Twist), as well as Murphy's and Woodfire Grill.
Mainly, we enjoyed our meal, especially the simple salad of local red and gold beets with goat cheese and oranges (right). We also liked the profiteroles (top photo) made with homemade vanilla ice cream and Valrhona chocolate. Entrées of a BLT sandwich and whole roasted red-snapper were good too, with only a few minor glitches.
The restaurant is generous with the amuse bouche. We received this colorful assortment of olives (left) and a bunch of potato chips with a blue-cheese dip. The chips frankly were not much better than your basic Lay's.
The Shed is another restaurant that serves not-so-small plates for sharing as starters. I find this trend a bit annoying, since it rapidly increases prices if you want to sample more than one item. You're also encouraged to share entrées. This is all about marketing. We've always been able to share food, but now we're paying to do so.
More in next week's Grazing column.
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The Shed is Awesome! I had brunch there Saturday with my husband and liked it so much I back with some girlfiends on Sunday.
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This place is very interesting and we did not even realize it had opened! We went in to look at the menu and ended up staying to eat anyway. The oysters were so awesome--and I think I ate half of my friend's steak as well. I thought it was very interesting that you can sit at the little bar up front and watch the chef in action. David our waiter also made some great suggestions for us too--we must have looked confused. Can't wait to get back. The neighborhood needed something like this!
Three of us dined and shared the wonderful food created by Chef Daniel Atwood. The service was excellent and the food even better. We ate our way through appetizers of olives and cheese. ...the best blue cheese ever, quince jam to sweeten things up, duck prosciutto that was a new taste treat to all three of us. Cucumber soup with salmon, homemade chips, fried calamari that was served with just the right sauces, excellent wine, pork shank with polenta and then the pièce de résistance was the profiteroles for dessert. We'll go back and back. We loved the casual patio dining option.
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