Hotel Clermont names an executive chef and other top Atlanta dining news from the week

Here are the stories that made a splash in the Atlanta food world this week, plus what to eat, drink, buy and cook.

Jeb Aldrich is the executive chef at the Clermont Hotel. / AJC file photo

Restaurant and dining news

Jeb Aldrich has left his father Jay Swift's restaurant Noble Fin to take a position as executive chef at Hotel Clermont's restaurant and rooftop bar, Atlanta Magazine reports. The restaurant, run by the Indigo Road group, will be a French-style brasserie open for dinner and Sunday brunch and is set to open at the beginning of 2018.

Conveyor belt sushi restaurant Kula is now open in Dunwoody.

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King of Pops, biscuits on tap for Alpharetta food hall

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