Thursday: left work just after 4 pm. Didn’t stop at McDonalds. Got home at 457. Took C a few minutes to get ready. Left shortly after 5 pm. Took us almost an hour and a half to get downtown to Summerhill. Found a nice unpaved parking spot in a dark back alley. What could go wrong?
So I was super stressed out when I got out of the car. Little Bear is part of a very small string of shops on Georgia Avenue, just east of old Turner Field. A Publix has sprung up on one of the old Braves parking lots that the City of Atlanta used to hold so dear. I walked around, looking for Little Bear. It wasn’t where I thought it was. Across the street the sign read “Little Bar”. I crossed the street trying to find Little Bear, walking right past it twice. Finally I figured it out.
Ceil was already seated, her back to the brick wall. The more I looked at the menu, the more I wondered what language it was printed in. I’d never heard of most of the words. I think they just made up some of them. A sure case of country going to city.
Little Bear boasts 2-1/2 Michelin stars. Most everything is grown in Georgia. I think they meant the US state, and not the country.
We passed on the “XL Meat Du Jour: big hunk-o-flesh with whatever the hell we want” for $65. Passed on the “Dealer’s Choice: four course individual prix 5 menu ‘just f me up, fam!’ as they say” for $75 per person. Heard this was Romanian food, so we stuck to the menu. We ordered several dishes to share:
1. Butternut & Beet: toum, squash seed, ajika, tang cu lunchbox pepper, jalapeno, crispy okra, fetal sorrel. I took one tiny bite of what turned out to be the jalapeno, which blistered my mouth. I left the rest for Ceil.
2. Peach Onion Fritter: green tomato all flavor, xo, fig raisin, green chili mix, basil, numbing tomatillo husk spice. The actual fritters were fine. I ate two and Ceil ate the third. I tried it with the ingredients – I usually like onions, but one of the ingredients didn’t taste good, so I scraped all the extra stuff off, to eat it “plain”.
3. Pork Tenderloin: golden curry, chili agrista, eggplant, potato, peach fennel, marigold, day lily spice. Yes actual tiny little yellow marigold flowers. The pork was delicious (a little raw for my tastes, and hard to cut and chew. The potatoes were tasty. Not knowing what it was, I ate some eggplant, and it wasn’t bad.
4. Pecan Pao Chicken: tahini vin, blueberry sweet n’sour, onion, shishito, pickled cukes, pecan pao crumble, cilantro. Two crusty pieces of heavily breaded chicken, one for each of us. Crunchy, but good. Ceil noticed this dish was served on an East Fork plate.
5. For dessert we ordered the Blondies & Milk: benne seed flavor with whiskey milk for dippin’. Good. I tried dipping into the whiskey milk, but I wasn’t a fan. This was served with the hockey card of a Red Wings goalie, for some reason.
The small restroom had an old painting of Jesus, His hands clasped in prayer. Underneath a small sign read “Employee of the Month”.
The entire experience wasn’t quite as bad as I had feared. Not sure I would recommend Little Bear. Hope that I am not forced to go back. Too fancy smancy for this over the hill suburbanite.
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