The Best Dishes Eater Atlanta Ate in October

Eater Atlanta’s editor and contributors spend each week eating out at a number of eating places and pop-ups looking for the subsequent nice chunk or cocktail. Some meals and drinks are undoubtedly higher than others and deserve a shoutout. Beneath are the very best dishes Eater’s editor ate in October.

Yakisoba with pork stomach, kimchi, and a fried egg at OK Yaki

I’ve been following Corban Irby and his okonomiyaki and Japanese avenue meals pop-up OK Yaki since its days at Ria’s Bluebird and Solar in My Stomach and was stoked when he lastly opened the pop-up as a restaurant subsequent door to Hodgepodge Coffeehouse in East Atlanta two years in the past. OK Yaki hasn’t skipped a beat since its pop-up days, as evidenced by the usually packed patio and eating room, particularly on the weekends. One in every of my favourite issues to order here’s a bowl of yakisoba, which I usually prime with pork stomach, OK Yaki’s spicy kimchi, and a sunny egg. I add some chili oil, too. This noodle dish that additionally consists of flakes of bonito (akin to tuna and an ingredient in dashi) oozes umami and is simply pure consolation to me paired with no matter bubbles the bar is serving or a medium-bodied pink like a gamay.

Ricotta with olive tapenade at Poor Hendrix

My Eater colleague, Bettina Makalintal, just lately tweeted about falling sufferer to years of cottage cheese slander, lastly discovering herself topping it with olive oil, salt, and pepper and consuming it with toast. To her delight, it was good. I responded with a photograph of the ricotta cheese unfold with olive tapenade served with crusty grilled bread I had simply eaten the earlier weekend at Poor Hendrix in East Lake. Little did I do know my response to that tweet would take off, however it did, with affirmations that cottage cheese carried out up all types of how is definitely nice (agree), and my savory, briny olive tapenade ricotta cheese unfold at Poor Hendrix regarded worthy of looking for out. (It’s, and it is best to.) Regardless of my photograph, I really sipped a martini (gin with a twist) that afternoon, whereas my husband was keen on the Oktoberfest beer the restaurant had on draft.

Firedog at Hankook Taqueria

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Beth McKibben

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I’ll hardly ever flip down any dish with kimchi. There’s simply one thing in regards to the punch of funkiness on this Korean fermented cabbage and vegetable combination I discover onerous to withstand, particularly when it’s bringing the precise stability of spice and warmth. I’m a fan of the kimchi present in most of the dishes at Hankook Taqueria in Underwood Hills, together with on the Firedog — a plump beef scorching canine topped with spring onions, gochujang, and a beneficiant portion of shredded inexperienced cabbage kimchi. It’s every thing I would like on a scorching canine, and is a significant taste bomb. Ensure to order a aspect of sesame fries, too.

Waffle Home-style pierogies at Courageous Wojtek

I’ve already written my ode to this dish in a earlier submit in October. But it surely deserves yet another shoutout for the month. These Polish dumplings from pop-up Courageous Wojtek, now in residence at Full Fee in Grant Park, include the choice so as to add as much as ten totally different toppings identical to Waffle Home hash browns, however with decidedly native and Japanese European twists. I caught to my WaHo order throughout a latest Saturday morning breakfast journey to the pop-up: scattered, coated, smothered, chunked, and peppered (grilled onions, Porter beer cheese, smoked kielbasa, scorching Hungarian wax peppers).

Received a favourite dish you get pleasure from at a restaurant or pop-up round Atlanta you suppose Eater ought to take a look at. Electronic mail beth.mckibben@eater.com with particulars.