On the Menu: JBF Award Winner Linton Hopkins's Southern Feast

Here’s a taste of what’s on tap today at the Beard House.
 

Toast of Atlanta, 7:00 P.M.
JBF Award Winner Linton Hopkins, Holeman and Finch Public House, Holeman and Finch Bottle Shop, H&F Burger, Hop's Chicken, Linton’s at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and Restaurant Eugene, Atlanta / Chris Edwards, Restaurant Eugene, Atlanta / Jason Paolini, Linton’s at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta

Atlanta native and JBF Award winner Linton Hopkins is known for his bevy of can’t-be-missed restaurants in the Big Peach. Revered as the toast of the town, this culinary connoisseur will serve a legendary Beard House dinner replete with housemade pantry items that pay homage to the South’s bounty and hospitality, with plates like Benne–Shrimp Toasts with Frim Fram Sauce; Cured Red Snapper with Pickled Sapelo Island Clams, Georgia Sub-Tropical Ginger, Turmeric, and Lemongrass; and Seven Southern Vegetables from Seven Georgia Farms.

See the full menu below: 

Hors d’Oeuvre

Newsom’s Country Ham Station 

Chicken Liver with Pepper Jelly on Biscuits
 
White Oak Pastures Steak Tartare with Fried Oysters and Rémoulade
 
James Beard’s Onion–Mayonnaise Sandwiches with Mountain Trout Roe
 
Benne–Shrimp Toasts with Frim Fram Sauce

Dinner 

Amuse Bouche > Pimento Cheese Macarons with Boiled Peanuts

Cured Red Snapper with Pickled Sapelo Island Clams, Georgia Sub-Tropical Ginger, Turmeric, and Lemongrass
 
Grassroots Farms Chicken and Egg with Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms, Spoonbread, and Natural Jus
 
Seven Southern Vegetables from Seven Georgia Farms 

Sorghum Flour Johnnycake with Sequatchie Cove Creamery Dancing Fern Cheese and Sapelo Island Purple Peas
 
Slow-Cooked Claypot Mercier Orchards Apples with Clabbered Buttermilk and Peanut Brittle 

A selection of fine wines will be served with this dinner.

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