Friday, February 13, 2009
News / People Chef Robb Leaves Miro
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Chef Dean Robb, who came from Birmingham last year to headline the opening of Miro District Food & Drink, has left the European-style restaurant in the Adelicia high-rise to pursue his own restaurant consulting business. Robb will remain engaged with both Miro and sister restaurant Watermark as an independent consultant. Scott Cohen, who served as chef de cuisine under Robb and also worked with him in Frank Stitt's Birmingham restaurants Bottega and Highlands Bar and Grill, will take over the role of executive chef.
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really interesting bit of nashville restaurant news
in my experience miro just never got it together
and god i so wanted it to... great menu but the food never was right. i went 4 times. no way of knowing what was going on in that kitchen... i often wondered.
dean robb seems like a really good man and i'm sure he can cook his ass off but miro's food was really missing the mark whereas watermark is just wonderful. i truly love the food there...
i wish him everything good. he was always very nice to me.
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Claudia I disagree with you. Miro tops Watermark for me by a lot. Maybe middle age makes me an easy mark for a warmer room in this unending age of chilly glass and concrete. The mussels, the burger, the fish, the pasta, I've enjoyed pretty much everything at Miro. The bar is a blast with Ned and Ryan. Watermark seems extra pricey to me, especially these days. Maybe we need to return together and put em to the test! Dean is great guy and I'm sorry to see him go.
Miro came up in conversation the other day because a friend has a four-year old who loves octopus. I thought Miro might have it as a small plate, but no. Does anyone know of a place in town that serves it? Not calamari-style, but like a grilled baby octopus.
I had one a couple of years ago at Avec in Chicago and that's sort of what we're after for this kid.
RB! i so respect your opinions on food so this is odd indeed! i adore miro's menu, but the execution was pretty much always a let down. as in surprisingly so. watermark, albeit pricier and "fancier/richer" food, delivered the goods. as for the rooms, i am not a fan of miro's decor although the bar does look warm and friendly - no doubt. and as for putting them to the test, you say when and i am so there! we are overdo for a lunch/dinner. let's do it, ok?
barbara - what you're after is my fantasy. avec is a 9+ in my book. i LOVE their food and have blogged about my 2 meals there this past summer. tandy might have it on the menu on occasion at city house. you could try giovanni's - but it's a long shot. and if you ever find it and don't tell me i'll be sad...
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We ordered every single thing on the menu, in rounds of two or three each time but it was the octopus that made it into every round. I think we ate four of them. I agree with your Avec rating; I had an extraordinary Chicago cuisine week (Alinea, Blackbird, North Pond, etc) and Avec was the only one I'd be anxious to revisit. Though there was a tiny Italian place in Ukranian Village, A Tavola, that got every single thing right as well: three entrees, three appetizers; small.
Thanks for the City House heads up - I hadn't thought of that but I bet we could just ASK Tandy and he'd do it! - as well as Giovanni's (though I'm not looking forward to a revisit there).
sorry, the only grilled octopus I can recommend was at every single parrillada I visited in Panama City (Panama, not FL). No help here.
I did have fantastic octopus yesterday at Hai Woon Dai, but, alas, that was Korean style and not grilled. (Mr. Pink, you would have loved it - I swear, the sauce was taken out of Ms. Andre's secret stash in the corner of Prince's kitchen.)
