Monday, November 12, 2012
News Starred restaurant reviews back at Creative Loafing
Posted by Stephanie Dazey @stephaniedazey on Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Creative Loafing is excited to announce the return of starred restaurant reviews to our food and drink coverage. Regular contributor Brad Kaplan will be the new critical voice of the food section, his first full review of The Spence can be found here.
Kaplan first wrote for Creative Loafing in 2010, starting with a trip out to Georgia wine country to experience the harvest and weigh in on the future of Georgia wine.
Since then, he's been our Cheap Eats columnist, reviewing everything from a hot dog stand to a Lao hole in the wall, and has also contributed features on topics like the grandeur of country ham, Southern cocktail culture, and the growing presence of Georgia cheese makers. His photos, articles, and quotes have also been seen in the Wall Street Journal, Coastal Living, Atlanta magazine, Grub Street, Bourbon & Boots, Travel and Leisure online, and Eater Atlanta.
Living in Atlanta for nearly a decade, Kaplan has witnessed tremendous changes in the Atlanta dining scene, from the collapse of high end dining and onslaught of Southern farm-to-table mania, to the ever-increasing embrace of hidden ethnic gems.
Here's a word from the man himself:
"Creative Loafing is a vibrant and truly unique voice when it comes to covering this great city, its culture, its people. I'm eager to help extend that voice back out to covering our robust restaurant scene as completely as possible. I especially look forward to the discussion and feedback that my reviews will hopefully engender, and believe that any restaurant review should be the starting point for an ongoing conversation rather than just a point in time snapshot. My goal is to write in a way that helps you understand what a restaurant is all about, to get a feel for how it fits in the broader context of our city's culture, and to do so in a way that's simply interesting to read (unlike this, which is boring, and painful). Enough about me, let's eat!"
In case you haven't noticed, Kaplan also has an affinity for the liquid side of dining. He runs ThirstySouth.com, a webzine "dedicated to all things drinking well in the South," covering cocktails, spirits, coffee and more. Oh, and his job description also includes father/coach/husband/marketing strategy consultant.
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