Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Restaurants / Review First Look: The Spence
Posted by CL staff @cl_atlanta on Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- James Camp
- SURF-AND-TURF: Roasted bone marrow with tuna tartare at the Spence
CL's Cliff Bostock writes:
It's not a boast or an exaggeration, but I'm not a television watcher. I've never seen an entire episode of "Top Chef" or any of the other nail-biting soap operas that toy with chefs' egos and turn a risky condiment into a death sentence.So, I've never been starstruck by Richard Blais. But I have been eating and mainly loving his food since he turned up at Fishbone on Peachtree Street in 2001. A couple of years later he opened Blais, revolutionary in its introduction of molecular cuisine to Atlanta. I found the restaurant to be a mixed success, but greatly admired his willingness to experiment wildly, under the inspiration of renowned Ferran Adrià of El Bulli, where he worked a stint...
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