Concentrics Hosting Restaurant Week; Corks and Fork

CITYWIDE: Concentrics is holding its Restaurant Week from September 4th-11th. The restaurant group is offering a 3-course (appetizer, main, and dessert) prix-fixe menu for $25 at the following restaurants: ONE. midtown kitchen, TWO urban licks, TAP, PARISH, Murphy's, Lobby at Twelve, and ROOM at Twelve. See the menus at www.concentrics.com.

GRANT PARK: The Grant Park Summer Shade Festival is bringing back "Corks and Forks," a food and wine event featuring the food of many Atlanta restaurants such as Abattoir and Spice Market. The event is on August 27th and you can buy tickets on this site. [EaterWire]

BUCKHEAD: On August 27th, Restaurant Eugene will join other restaurants around the country to support "Eating for Education," an initiative to help fund edible education. The restaurant group has also announced, in a recent e-newsletter, that Ian Mendelsohn has been hired as a new "Wine concierge" at H&F Bottle Shop. [EaterWire]

DOWNTOWN: BLT Steak Atlanta is kicking off a series of five-course, educational dinners centered around the whole animal on October 6th. Each dinner will focus on an animal with the first event centered around pork. The dinners cost $60 and wine pairings are an extra $40. Reservations available by calling 404-577-7601. [EaterWire]

UNDERGROUND: Push Start Kitchen is the latest underground supper club to hit the Atlanta scene and its getting a lot of local buzz. Visit their website to sign up or check out their menus on Facebook. [EaterWire]

PONCEY-HIGHLANDS: On August 27th from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., Farmer Will Harris of Harris Family Heritage in Bluffton, GA and Chef Shaun Doty of Yeah! Burger will be in the Ponce store discussing grass-fed beef, which Harris grows, and cooking up some samples.