Kevin Gillespie's Revival Will Open For Dinner Thursday

Right on schedule,  Kevin Gillespie of Top Chef and Gunshow restaurant fame is opening his new Decatur dining destination, Revival , on Thursday.

According to the press release, "The restaurant offers guests a family-style dining experience reminiscent of Gillespie’s own family’s traditions, and executive chef Andreas Müller reinterprets the food from Gillespie’s childhood with a selection of Southern-inspired dishes that will bring guests together at the table."

The release also details the menu, which will include the $49 per person family-style option, plus a long list of a la carte items.

Menu items for dinner include the following:

Hors d’oeuvre ($6-$10):

Sliced local tomatoes with cucumbers and sweet onion

Toasted deviled ham tea sandwiches

Local kale salad with old-fashioned boiled dressing

Revival relish tray

Old-fashioned skillet-fried green tomatoes

Entrées ($11-$18):

Country-fried Kobe beef round steak with skillet pan gravy

Revival fried chicken

Grassfed beef and pork meatloaf wrapped in bacon

Creamed Georgia white shrimp and Savannah red rice

Wood-grilled Berkshire pork steak

Spiced Mississippi catfish in low country tomato gravy

Wood-grilled South Carolina quail glazed with roasted honey and garlic

Mushroom-stuffed cabbage dumpling with spicy roasted tomato sauce

Trimmings ($4-$6):

Fatback-fried silver queen corn

Hickory-smoked local greens

Old-fashioned creamed potatoes

Fresh field peas and snaps in sweet cream butter and dill

Green cabbage with confit ham

Revival mac n’ cheese

Pan-roasted mushrooms with celery and lemon

Local zucchini fritters

Desserts ($7):

Geneva’s toasted vanilla pound cake with peach fool

Butterscotch trifle with butter pecan cream

Lemon icebox pie