Each week, Rough Draft shares a recipe with readers from a local restaurant or created by an Atlanta chef. While always part of our weekly dining coverage, the following five recipes proved wildly popular with Rough Draft readers in 2024.
- Steak Market’s Crab Dip
The Midtown steakhouse features this popular crab dip as an appetizer and readers gave the recipe top marks for 2024. The oven-baked dip includes jumbo lump crab meat, Munster and Oaxaca cheeses, heavy cream, and cream cheese spiced with Old Bay seasoning, dill, and chives.
- Zafron’s Chicken Wings
Another reader favorite for 2024, Zafron in Sandy Springs gives chicken wings a Persian twist in this recipe. Among the ingredients to marinate 16 grilled wings are fragrant saffron stamens, low-fat yogurt, onions, lemon and lime juices, and hot sauce.
- Chef Kevin Gillespie’s Fatback Fried Silver Queen Corn
Gunshow and Nàdair chef Kevin Gillespie nabbed the number three spot in 2024 with a recipe for his fatback fried Silver Queen corn. A great dish to make during the height of summer in the South, the skillet recipe calls for five ears of Silver Queen corn, fatback, heavy cream, and onions.
- Magnolia Room Cafeteria’s Mushroom Chicken
Readers adored the mushroom chicken recipe from Tucker Southern restaurant Magnolia Room Cafeteria this year. The recipe involves making chicken flour, mushroom gravy, and a roux from scratch. You’ll also want to adjust the recipe to feed four people, as it currently reads for restaurant use. But the recipe provides a cool glimpse into what it takes to make one of Magnolia Room’s most popular dishes.
- Ray’s Caesar Salad
As the Caesar salad turned 100 in 2024, Ray’s on the River shared this classic recipe for its take on the iconic salad. The Caesar salad recipe, feeding four people, includes making the breadcrumbs and dressing from scratch.
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