Creative Loafing Decatur Restaurant News
Decatur Metro | July 20, 2011Seems like Creative Loafing’s Cliff Bostock’s got Decatur on the brain this week.
First, Cliff reports he’s heard rumblings that Watershed’s owners are scouting locations for a new restaurant, where Joe Treux will head the kitchen. Treux was named Watershed’s chef last May, after Scott Peacock left to do some documentary film making about Southern cooking.
Secondly, Mr. Bostock ventured to Decatur’s new No. 246 on Tuesday and had quite the grand experience.
My wife and I did a little celebrating at No. 246 last night. What a great addition to the Square! Service was friendly and attentive. The agnolotti pasta dish was outrageously delicious, as was the heirloom tomatoes appetizer and the chocolate tart desert. Branzino fish was beautiful and plentiful, though a bit bland. One word of warning: the place is really loud — to the point that speaking to our server was difficult.
That last point makes me sound really old, which has become more and more true. How about this: One additional comment: the place has a festive vibe — you might find yourself having to speak really loud to your server to make yourself heard!
Is Watershed slated to remain open but with a new chef?
The Bostock post makes it sound like Watershed would remain open, doesn’t it?
That is great news (if true) about Joe Treux opening up a new restaurant. Repast had delicious, interesting cuisine in a terrible location. Treux was never a good match for Watershed because the typical Watershed customer is looking for nostalgic comfort food, not innovation. I can imagine him pulling his hair out on fried chicken Tuesday. Best of luck to him and the Watershed owners on the new endeavor!
My mother was in town on tuesday, so we had a late lunch at 246.
the food was AMAZING.
While I know that skirt steak isn’t normally the best cut of beef one could get from a cow,
the skirt steak I had at 246 is one of the best steaks i’ve ever had in my life. Given that I’ve been to some insanely good and insanely expensive yet some good and some not worth it steakhouses, that means a lot.
The skirt steak was a decent size, i’d estimate 5-7oz but my god was it tasty.
My mother had the Porchetta sandwich with the garlicky fries and she loved it!
It was between 245 and 345 so there was only 1 other table in there at the same time, but that just gave us a better view of the finished interior. It looks great. The wait staff for our table, I’m thinking his name was…phil maybe.. I’m horrible with names, but he was great.
awesome service, kept the drinks filled w/o asking, etc.
I’ll def be back with the wife this weekend!
Went there wtih the spousal unit Sunday evening– although I can’t eat pork, I took a forkful of his pappardelle carbonara (being careful not to spear a cube of piglet), and swooned. Deliciously porky, eggy, buttery goodness! The spaghetti with white shrimp was fab, as were the toasts (the roasted fig & the housemade ricotta). Drinks were very good, too. The only quibble was with the dessert: I don’t particularly care for my espresso ice cream to be salty (that’s a better flavor mesh with chocolate or caramel– with espresso, it just kinda hit my palate wrong). Would’ve gotten the blackberry, but they were out, so we’ll try that next time! Overall, loved it, and will definitely be back!
246- agree with above…delicious food, but was too loud. We sat at a table for two by the bar. For our celebratory dinner, the table location was very distracting. Good service, but at times, a little too attentive. We will definitely go back, but request to sit in the main dining room. Nice addition to Decatur!
Watershed has become a bit tired, don’t you think? Who really goes there anymore particularly now with newer and better options like Cakes and Ale and now 246. Watershed fell out of my rotation years ago.
Maybe it is time to just let Treux do his thing there at that location rather than keep Watershed,a nd the ghost of Scott Peacock, going?
Watershed’s brunch has taken a few steps back in recent months – too bad as it was one of our go-to joints. The omeletted looked like it was about 1/2 normal size and the cranberry juice was brown. I would welcome a change back to the way it was before
No 246 – here’s hoping it’s easy to navigate the menu with a gluten-free eater in the house.
I had lunch there with my daughter last weekend, and it was perfect. We had the two pasta dishes, and 3 of the toast selections. All were delicious. We also had an interesting cocktail, topped with an orange slice, very good. The interior is beautiful, we can’t wait to go back. Our waiter provided very good service and info about the menu. We honestly can’t say enough about it–it’s wonderful! Being lunch, it wasn’t terribly crowded, so it was not noisy then. But, y’all in Decatur need to be thrilled that your restaurants, pubs and other businesses are so popular they are crowded. It’s a high class problem!