Girl’s Night at The Shed
June 29, 2008
A few friends celebrated Lea’s birthday (she is over 30-that is all I will say) at The Shed , a new restaurant in Glenwood Park. We walked in to what is a very nice fresh, simple dining area and bar. The two t.v.’s over the bar were a bit large for the place I thought - even though I wanted to see Georgia play the second game of the College World Series (which they lost miserably.) I just don’t know why we all need t.v.’s in every corner of our world. Do we need to be constantly stimulated with crap? Yes. Okay, I digress.
The hunky bartender fixed us all nice drinks - Elizabeth and I had a half bottle of champagne for something like $35.00. A bit pricey, but it was refreshing. We were seated when all our party was there and our waiter (Patrick was his name I believe) was very informative and never got annoyed by my constant craving for attention for our table.
All “small plates” are to be shared and all cost around $12 to $13. The larger plates are pricier. The concept is “farm to table” so what you have on any given night may change. We started with the marinated olives which I thought were superb. We moved on to the cheese plate (with many more olives) and some nice toasted bread - all very good and nicely presented. (All dishes are white by the way.) The pickled beet salad with yellow and red beets, feta, and mandarin oranges was fabulous. The beets were gorgeous. We also had the truffle fries and homemade ketchup - not bad but not great - and the peach dish which I did not taste was said to be very nice. They unfortunately were out of the farm to table whole fish dish and for the fish eating vegetarian birthday girl, that was a bummer, but she got the salmon and I will let her comment on that if she would like. I had the fried okra and collard greens for my main meal because I had stuffed myself on cheese, and the okra was good but the collards needed some umph. I think Elizabeth got the BLT Club sandwich and it lacked umph as well. Nice, but just not all that tasty for some reason.
The sweetest part of the evening was when a couple walked out of the restaurant during their meal (we were all like, what the heck are they doing) and came back in a few minutes later and he screamed, “She said YES!” It was all schmoopy like and everyone clapped and got verklempt. Well, not really. But it was sweet as pie.
The newly engaged at Shed -Sean and Mandy.
Anyway, I would go back certainly to this restaurant. I do not need to go back once a month, but I will try it again and see how they are faring. The service was impeccable, the place has a nice feel and the food was good. Notice my overuse of the word, “nice.” That about sums it up…
Celebrating Lea’s 25th - in black with blond hair 
All in all, Brutus gives it 3 paws up.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 am
We took my parents when they were in town some weeks back, and we had great food. We had one dessert that was a little sub par, but the mix of small plates and main dishes were very good. I was impressed that even though we all ordered different glasses of wine, they brought each bottle to the table with nice stemware, presented the bottle, and poured tastes before filling the glass…you definitely know what you are getting (and this was for 4 different wines mind you!).
We loved the amuse that started our meal; we had marinated olives and homemade potato chips as the “bread service”.
Go on Saturday mornings from 9 to noon, they have a mini farmers market; we got great produce last Saturday (’maters and ‘taters, corn, peaches, vidalias all good stuff and cheap). Also the Shed sells homemade jellies (we got a very good red pepper jelly) boiled peanuts, infused simple syrups, fresh baked breads, pickled beats, etc. and they give away recipes on snazzy little index cards. It’s definitely worth stopping by.