Autumn will soon arrive and to celebrate, the following seven restaurants have added this season's most popular dish: pumpkin. Check out the list below, which features flavorful pumpkin-inspired dishes, drinks and desserts. Orange you glad it's pumpkin season?
Wrecking Bar Brewpub: If you prefer your pumpkin in a glass, this is the place for you. Pumpkin 70 Shilling Scottish Ale, a mild ale with subtle notes of pumpkin and vanilla will be on tap. A perfect Oktoberfest brew.
Krispy Kreme: Technically, not a pumpkin item, but Krispy Kreme has Pumpkin doughnuts this Halloween season. Filled with Chocolate Kreme, this donut is covered in orange icing and decorated with black. Other Halloween offerings: Zombie & Spider Web doughnuts and a drink, Caramel Apple Chiller.
Kang Nam: Head out to one of the most international parts of our metro area, Buford Highway, for Hobak Jook (or Juk), which is pumpkin soup. Also called porridge, it's a thick soup with balls of sweetened rice.
Queen of Cream: Satiate your stomach with something sweet this season. Along about mid-October Queen of Cream will be serving a pumpkin gooey cake ice cream flavor. That's sort of a mashup of spiced ice cream with hunks of cake made with butter, pumpkin puree and marshmallow fluff. Closer to Thanksgiving, pick up a pumpkin pie for T-day dessert.
Colletta: The middle of the month is a good time for pumpkin dishes, that's when you should plan a trip to Colletta for smoked pumpkin risotto complemented by the flavors of 25-year-old balsamic vinegar and sage marshmallows.
McDonald's: What's a fall without Pumpkin Spice Lattes? Yes, you could go to a fancy coffee place and pay more, but Mickey D's latte is getting some good press this year. Give it a try, and no, you don't want fries with that.
The Melting Pot: Most pumpkin menu items are for a limited time only, here's a two-day-only pumpkin offer. On Oct. 29-30 starting at 2 p.m., take a costumed kid for the Pot's Fon-Boo Bash. A three course meal for adults is $29.99 and kids 12 and under in costumes get a free meal (one per adult). For dessert? Ghostly White Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Fondue. Atlanta, Roswell and Duluth.
Bonus Halloween treat: A pumpkin spice ice cream recipe from Hal's Kitchen.
