Omnivore - Christiane fries Flip, praises Cafe Q and Sufi’s

The latest issue of Christiane Lauterbach’s Knife & Fork is out and includes five reviews and lots of reports of visits here and there.

Buried in the latter is mention of a visit to the new Flip Burger Boutique in Buckhead and it ain’t purty:

Richard Blais’s third contribution to the burger craze...is both silly and expensive. Americans will eat pretty much anything...if you stuff it into a round bun. Better yet, make sure that they can’t taste anything by heaping on garnishes and condiments and finishing everything with sugar. Fancy language helps to sell customers on such specialties as a stupefyingly bad osso bucco burger with marrow-naise and gremolata....

She goes on similarly and ends with the suggestion that customers stick to the “deliciously crisp french fries without the annoying smoked mayonnaise and, perhaps, one of the plain beef burgers.”

Knife & Fork’s cover review this month is of Cafe Q in Johns Creek. It earns three stars and begins with this rather imperial statement: “In its implacable march to the north, the Asian community is now reaching the very edges of the megalopolis.”

Sufi’s, reviewed recently by both Besha and I, gets three stars, too. Two-stars go to H. Harper Station and Sprig with Der Biergarten receiving a 1.5 rating.

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