Mouthful - French fare

Anis Cafe & Bistro

The Buckhead restaurant’s patio remains one of the most pleasant in the city, even on hot summer nights. A charcuterie plate includes especially good pâté, and the kitchen maintains solid skill with fish. Feel like a getaway to a tropical island? Try Anis at lunch. 2974 Grandview Ave. 404-233-9889. www.anisbistro.com.

Au Pied de Cochon

A glossy brasserie inside the InterContinental Buckhead, the seafood bar is the primary reason to dine here. If you order Le Royal, the medium-sized raw bar platter option for $88, a server lugs over a two-tiered presentation of red baskets packed with raw oysters and cooked but chilled crab, shrimp and mussels. For all you night owls, this restaurant is open 24 hours. 3315 Peachtree Road. 404-946-9000.

Au Rendez Vous

This Brookhaven charmer is the ideal place to bring a book and a half-bottle of wine (it’s BYO-whatever) to settle in for a couple hours. For some of the best prices in town, you get a classic French bistro meal — complete with the relaxed Parisian service. Perennial favorites include fish in apple cider-cream sauce and coq saute aux champignon. Don’t skip the dessert crepes. 1328 Windsor Parkway. 404-303-1968.

Brasserie Le Coze

In the middle of Lenox Square but very much its own environment, Brasserie strikes just the right tone of relaxed sophistication. The classics here — onion soup, mussels in cream, skate wing, lamb sandwich with tapenade — never fail to please. Observing the eccentric customers is one of the integral pleasures of dining here. 3393 Peachtree Road. 404-266-1440.

Joël

The psychological distance to purgatorial Vinings shouldn’t deter either intowners or suburbanites from making the short trek to one of the city’s finest restaurants. James Beard award-winning chef Joël Antunes has honed a heady, personal style that respects his French heritage while leaving wiggle room for the imaginative and unexpected. Enjoy Antunes’ precise cuisine with wine chosen by his dangerously trustworthy sommelier, Philippe Buttin. 3290 Northside Parkway, Suite 120. 404-233-3500. www.joelrestaurant.com.






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