Midtown and Downtown Atlanta restaurants offering up new fall menu items

Ready for something new?  These Midtown and downtown restaurants are offering up special menu items in time for fall:

BLT Steak Atlanta: Matt Ratcliffe, the chef de cuisine at this downtown restaurant located in the W Hotel, has created a special First of Fall Feast blackboard menu, which includes Grass Roots Farm duck breast with pearl barley tabbouleh, sour orange glaze, mint yogurt and dill pollen; Sapelo Island clams with apple cider, chorizo, scuppernongs and queso fresco; and for dessert, pumpkin cream filled doughnuts with fall spiced hot chocolate.

Lobby Bar and Bistro: Chef JC Huerta offers contemporary American cuisine at this restaurant, located on the first floor of the Twelve hotel. For this season, he has added grilled lamp chops with asparagus, celery root puree and balsamic reduction.