Speakeasy Cocktail Fest; John Currence on Paula Deen

TASTE OF ATLANTA— It's not too late to get tickets for Taste of Atlanta this weekend. Taste Revival is tonight until 10 p.m., and the main event will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. [EaterWire]

COMING ATTRACTIONS— Tomorrow's News Today reports that two new restaurants are headed into the area: Texas-based Grub Burger Bar is coming to Cobb Parkway in early 2014 and Momma Goldberg's Deli will open at 12th and West Peachtree in Midtown. [TNT]

EATER INTERVIEWS— Eater National interviewed Oxford, MS chef John Currence about this new cookbook. He talks about Southern cooking, and says this about Savannah's finest: "I rail on Paula Deen pretty regularly for furthering a stereotype for Southerners that I find offensive. I feel like it continues to undermine the work that a number of us have done to bring a legitimacy or intellectual credibility to the food of the South, so I wanted to do everything I could to put something on paper that expressed a voice of the South that was a seat at the table in the conversation on American food." [EN]

MIDTOWN— The Speakeasy Cocktail Festival is tomorrow, Saturday, October 29 at Opera. Learn more and purchase tickets to sessions from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. or 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. right here. [EATERWIRE]