La Pietra Cucina Restaurant Review
One Peachtree Pointe
1545 Peachtree St. NE (Beverly Rd.) 
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Atlanta, GA 30309
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La Pietra Cucina Restaurant is one of our 2012
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch Mon.-Fri., Dinner Mon.-Sat.Features
- View
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking (fee)
- Casual dressy
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 Devoted to Italian culinary sensibilities, but with a contemporary twist, Atlanta-born chef Bruce Logue learned his craft at Mario Batali’s Babbo and in Italy. His twists and turns with Italian food are thoroughly rooted in authenticity. Thus, his approach to calamari---not the typical fried style---presents butter-tender sweet rings bathed in a light, zingy tomato broth flecked with black olives and touched by the right amount of spicy heat. Diced raw tuna formed into a cake comes in an intensely flavored cucumber broth. House-made Calabrese sausage joins forces with a side of pickled vegetables. (Logue makes everything from the breads to salumi to gelati in house---even his own ricotta.) The panzanella, with homemade croutons, tangles cherry tomatoes with fresh basil and a sherry vinaigrette, the croutons absorbing its flavors without becoming soggy. Pay close attention to the daily specials, offering some of the more adventurous choices, such as veal tongue, lamb sirloin (served over barley and topped with grilled white asparagus) or porchetta. At lunch, a simplified menu still reaches into the chef’s creativity pocket with hand-cut pappardelle and a fine bolognese ragù, for instance. If appetite allows, get the chocolate dessert of the day. Wine choices focus on well-priced Italian selections, with good wines by the glass and a bottle presentation at the table for those that are so ordered. To find this hard-to-spot restaurant, go up the side street to the valet parking behind the building.
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