I am sorry I am behind almost an entire week.  I have been obsessed with my Luna Moth and keep forgetting to write this post.  Alas, I digress.

This past week, we headed to the new restaurant in Decatur (where The Depeaux used to be) that is owned by Teri Rogers. Teri is the lovely proprietor of two restaurants in Decatur – Feast and now Farmstead 303.  *On a quick side note about the food at Farmstead… we liked our meals – found that the appetizers were much better than the larger main courses and the southern food on the menu was very salty. We indeed like Feast much better, but I am sure Farmstead will find its footing with Ryan Stewart as the chef.*

We kinda sorta did our 52 Weeks of Drinks at the last minute here but they do have a small list of specialty drinks. We chose two cocktails to taste this evening – the Garden Of Eden and the Honeydew Cooler.  Both good names for cocktails and both are original it seems even though there is another Garden of Eden liquor drink on line…nothing like this one!

Alison got the Garden of Eden which included an unknown gin, hibiscus juice, fresh lemon juice, and St Germain.  Simply put, this was one sweet drink. Alison’s ratings are below.

Don’t forget our ratings scale is between 1 and 5 Olives.  One Olive = waste of my blogging time;  5 Olives = oh my goodness/yummmmmm

Presentation: 1 olive.  Served up, this drink looked like what is put in a hummingbird feeder.  There was no garnish in this cocktai.

Creativity: 2.5 olives.  Nice ingredients and maybe on a different night with a different bartender – it would be a less sweet drink.

Taste: 2 olives.  Had I been that hummingbird going to its feeder, I would have enjoyed this concoction.

Overall: 2 olives.

Alley, on the other hand, decided to get the Honeydew Cooler – which sounds really good in this 150 degree heat wave we are having. We all enjoyed this very summery cocktail consisting of cucumber vodka, nice pieces of honeydew shaken together with the vodka and fresh mint and poured in a tall glass full of ice.  Topped with a splash of soda, this drink was yummy.

Presentation: 4 olives.  Cool pieces of honeydew and fresh mint floating around in the tall glass.  Was fun to eat the cucumber vodka soaked honeydew.

Creativity: 3 olives.  Good solid drink with not too many fluffy things.

Taste: 4 olives.  Perfect on a hot Atlanta day.

Overall: 3.5 olives – enjoy!

I am sure we will be back to Farmstead.  The bar has a friendly atmosphere to it and they have a great selection of beer (unless they are out of some of them