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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Adios, Costa Rica! Hello ATL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CHEF MICHEAL TUOHY: IT NEVER RAINS IN CALIFORNIA
Photo: Rich Addicks/AJC staff
Holy smokes, can’t a girl go on vacation without the world falling in around her?
I leave for a week to get soaked up in the rainy season of Costa Rica and come back to:
Michael Tuohy is selling Woodfire Grill and moving back to California to open a farm-to-table concept there called Grange. Located inside a boutique hotel property, the Citizen Hotel, it’s one block from the state capitol in Sacramento. He will hang up his tongs on August 12, Woodfire’s 6-year anniversary. Tuohy, who spearheaded the farm-to-table movement in Georgia, has been cooking here for over 20 years. Look for more in my column next Thursday. Until then you can read Tuohy’s farewell: “After 22 years in Atlanta, the past 6 years at Woodfire Grill, my wife Patti and I have made the decision to move to California! I am joining the Joie de Vivre Hospitality Group, a San Francisco-based boutique hotel company, along with the Rubicon Development Group in Sacramento, to launch a new farm-to-table restaurant called Grange. Grange will be located at the new Citizen Hotel, located one block from the state capitol in Sacramento. We hope to open before the end of the year.”
Sala has been bought back into the Fifth Group family, and is closed temporarily to revamp. More on that in next Thursday’s column, too. (I’m just trying to get to all the up-front business first, then to details later).
Wild child Nicolas Bour is breaking my heart and leaving his post as executive chef of the Farmhouse at Serenbe to go to the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, D.C. as executive chef. Bour has been looking for a great fit for himself since Iris closed, so let’s hope this will be what he’s looking for. His raw energy and talent will be missed here, though. No word yet on who will replace him.
Who has memories of Woodfire Grill, Iris and the Farmhouse? What about Tuohy’s earlier restaurant, Chef’s Cafe?
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