Miller Union was hopping today at lunch. How nice to see a cool new restaurant go after Atlanta’s fickle lunch crowd.
The menu is trim: starters, salads, a few sandwiches and four entrees. I ordered this vegetable plate ($13, left), which manages to look virtuous while delivering satisfying doses of butter and salt. Beets, creamy white beans, fantastic collards and roasted carrot coins made for a nice, soppy plateful of flora.
I also really loved our starter — a “radish and feta snack” ($4, right) with icy cold veggies and a creamy feta dip.
Other items at our table included a super-squishy and super-delicious oyster po’ boy ($10) that you’ll want to inhale, and a pair of homemade fennel sausages ($13) nicely paired with more of those white beans and parsley pistou. These sausages were like other homemade versions I’ve tried around town — tasty but too dry and crumbly. (I’m getting the feeling that Atlanta’s meat mavens are starting to turn their attention from cold salami to …