Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Restaurants Antica Posta offshoot opens in Midtown
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM
We had a good meal at the new Joia (1100 Crescent Ave.) in Midtown. The restaurant and lounge was opened recently by Marco Betti who also owns Antica Posta in Buckhead.
The chef is Brett Maddox, hired away from Aria. The menu, in all honesty, is surprisingly tame, but I have nothing to complain about this caprese salad's mozzarella, house-made with water buffalo milk imported from Italy. I was suspicious but the cheese -- note its rind -- had the right touch of sourness and grassiness. I told Wayne that it was literally the first caprese salad I've ordered this year without (controversial, verboten) balsamic vinegar. I think when you taste this, you will see how nothing but EVOO is needed when the tomatoes are sharp and the cheese is slightly sour.
I also liked my entree, beautifully braised short ribs, tender but not too tender, served over a pool of reduced pan juices with haricots verts, carrots and fingerling potatoes.
I'll have more to say in "Grazing" later this week. One warning: Don't take your camera. They did not want me taking pictures, owing to a report earlier this week by another blogger, FoodieBuddha. I defied their wishes and was glad that we had a better meal than the Buddha.
(Photos by Cliff Bostock)
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Glad to hear you had a better meal then FB. Ate at Max's again yesterday, the end crust was improved from the first time, the tomatoes were chopped a bit smaller, but it was slightly soggy in the center. Had the caprese and I noticed myself agreeing with you, I wish they had left off the balsamic.
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Yeah, it's always a surprise when I have a meal that radically different from someone else, but he did go at lunch and ordered different food. Read FoodieBuddha's review here: http://tinyurl.com/n93wf7
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