{"id":583055,"date":"2010-05-28T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2010-05-28T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T12:43:12","slug":"nick-melvin-hired-as-chef-de-cuisine-at-empire-state-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583055","title":{"rendered":"Nick Melvin hired as chef de cuisine at Empire State South"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3348\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 241px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3348\" title=\"chef_nick_melvin\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/chef_nick_melvin-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Concentrics Hospitality\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Concentrics Hospitality<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This fine fellow striking the classic &#8220;Iron Chef&#8221; <em>bring it<\/em> pose is <strong>Nick Melvin<\/strong>, who will be leaving his post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parishatl.com\"><strong>Parish Foods &#38; Goods<\/strong><\/a> in the Old Fourth Ward to join Athens chef Hugh Acheson in his first Atlanta venture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirestatesouth.com\/\"><strong>Empire State South<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A native of New Orleans, Melvin has worked at <strong>Bayonna<\/strong> in the Crescent City, and at <strong>Highlands Bar &#38; Grill<\/strong> in Birmingham, Alabama &#8212; good training for a chef who will run the city&#8217;s most anticipated new Southern restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>According to Acheson&#8217;s press release, his new Midtown eatery will be <em>&#8220;\u2029a\u2029 modern\u2029 meat \u2029n\u2019\u2029 three\u2029 that\u2029 takes\u2029\u00a0 a fresh and vibrant approach\u2029 to \u2029Southern \u2029classics. \u2029Acheson\u2019s\u2029 vision\u2029 is\u2029 an\u2029 \u201cevery\u2029person\u201d\u2029 restaurant,\u2029 where \u2029simple\u2029 foods\u2029 are \u2029cooked\u2029 flawlessly.\u2029 Empire\u2029 State\u2029 will \u2029be\u2029 open \u2029for \u2029breakfast,\u2029 lunch \u2029and\u2029 dinner\u2029 with\u2029 courtyard\u2029 bocce\u2029 ball \u2029available\u2029 all\u2029 day \u2029and\u2029 an &#0133;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Concentrics Hospitality This fine fellow striking the classic &#8220;Iron Chef&#8221; bring it pose is Nick Melvin, who will be leaving his post at Parish Foods &#38; Goods in the Old Fourth Ward to join Athens chef Hugh Acheson in his first Atlanta venture, Empire State South. A native of New Orleans, Melvin has worked [&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-583055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583055","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=583055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}