{"id":524402,"date":"2010-04-12T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2010-04-12T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:10:15","slug":"sunday-column-three-french-restaurants-go-quiche-to-quiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524402","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Column: Three French restaurants go quiche to quiche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2955\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 235px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2955\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/12-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Escargot at FAB strike a classic pose but need to be hotter\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Escargot at FAB strike a classic pose but need to be hotter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Atlanta area has always had plenty of little French cafes, like Buckhead&#8217;s Anis and Decatur&#8217;s Cafe Alsace. If you want to eat a salade nicoise under a framed Toulouse Lautrec poster, you will find your heart&#8217;s desire in this town.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also had a few great French chefs plying their trade in this city throughout the years &#8212; people like Jean Banchet at Riviera (now Antica Posta), Joel Antunes at Joel, and Arnaud Berthelier at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead.<\/p>\n<p>But until recently we&#8217;ve never had much of a brasserie culture. We haven&#8217;t had those places that dispense that uniquely French vision of dining &#8212; a marriage of a grand, boisterous space to a menu steeped in the tradition-minded classics from the French comfort food repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have three. <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.accessatlanta.com\/atlanta-ga\/venues\/show\/733259-french-american-brasserie\"><strong>French American Brasserie<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; aka FAB &#8212; reboots the menu from Lenox Square&#8217;s Brasserie Le Coze, once the only game in town. <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.accessatlanta.com\/atlanta-ga\/venues\/show\/51197-au-pied-de-cochon\"><strong>Au Pied de Cochon <\/strong><\/a>is a &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escargot at FAB strike a classic pose but need to be hotter The Atlanta area has always had plenty of little French cafes, like Buckhead&#8217;s Anis and Decatur&#8217;s Cafe Alsace. If you want to eat a salade nicoise under a framed Toulouse Lautrec poster, you will find your heart&#8217;s desire in this town. We&#8217;ve also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}