DEL.ICIO.USThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/08/08
Woodfire Grill, chef Michael Tuohy's iconoclastic California-inspired restaurant on Cheshire Bridge Road, has been sold.
The proud new owners are Nicolas Quinones and Bernard Moussa, under the name Five Senses Restaurants.
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| Chef Michael Tuohy will leave Woodfire Grill for the Grange restaurant in Sacramento. | ||
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Quinones and Moussa have worked together as manager and assistant manager, respectively, at Midtown's Loca Luna for four years. The sale was effective Friday, and Tuohy's last day as chef-owner will be Tuesday.
Tuohy, a native of the San Franciso Bay area, has been at the forefront of the farm-to-table movement in Georgia, bringing the state's farmers into the spotlight by using ingredients from area farms on his menu whenever possible. Before he opened Woodfire Grill six years ago, he chef-owned critically acclaimed Chefs' Café on Piedmont.
New owners Quinones and Moussa will keep Tuohy's existing kitchen team intact, and chef de cuisine Kevin Gillespie, who has been with Tuohy for the past two years, has been promoted to executive chef. The partners plan to continue with Tuohy's concept of using locally sourced, sustainable and organic ingredients, and the name will remain the same.
"My hope is that Kevin will remain in the Woodfire Kitchen," Tuohy said in an interview two weeks ago. "He knows the vision we've all had for the restaurant and will be able to keep it alive."
Tuohy leaves the kitchen on the lauded restaurant's sixth anniversary, cooking a special dinner for guests before leaving for California to helm the kitchen at the Grange restaurant in Sacramento's boutique Citizen Hotel.
For information about the restaurant's sixth anniversary celebration, call the restaurant at 404-347-9055 or go to www.woodfiregrill.com.
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