Cheyenne Throckmorton

ColdFusion Builder 2 Presentation - Pencast

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:05:20 GMT

So I've been testing out my Echo LiveScribe SmartPen and decided to finally put it to the test last night. It took my pen, nicknamed "MoneyPenny" to the monthly Atlanta ColdFusion User Group meeting, which tonight was presented by Josh Adams of Adobe about ColdFusion Builder 2, currently in beta.

Shorter Medical Example for my health care readers

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Whats a pencast?

Basically the pen records audio while you are taking notes with ink and paper. Later, you can then tap on your notes and the pen jumps straight to that portion of the audio when you were taking the notes.

Additionally, as you see below you can share your notes/pencast complete with audio to the world. As the audio plays you will watch me write my notes. Also when you click on the portion of my notes that you think you might find of interest; a topic, a persons name, etc. the audio will jump straight to that portion.

There are lots of other features involved, but you get the basic gist. Above is Josh Adams of Adobe presenting on ColdFusion Builder 2. Click the full screen button in the upper right to get the full feel and use of the pencast.

As a Where's Waldo bonus see if you can quickly find the hidden gem of CFBuilder (actually Eclipse) thrown out by Charlie Arehart, that was a Eureka moment for one attendee that was instantly sold on CFB2 after discovering.

Best Buy Scam - PS3 - Indiana Jones Edition

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:09:59 GMT

Buyer Beware. I GOT RICED!

In a modern day scene comparable to the scam Indiana Jones tried to play by swapping a bag of sand for an ancient gold artifact, someone did the same to my new PlayStation 3 purchased from Best Buy. Upon opening my new purchase I sadly found no extra controller, no power button, no wires, just a BIG BAG OF RICE. Ironically the brand of rice was called "Great Value", which at $300 doesn't seem to be the case.

Why buy brick and mortar over online? So you don't get SCAMMED.. not!

Apparently the new policy of Best Buy is that when they have crooks in their supply line, they pass the anti-savings onto their long-time best consumers. Upon trying to return my PS3 Indiana Jones Edition, aka bag of rice, this was the response.

"We have never heard of this happening, we will not exchange the bag of rice we sold you for the product you actually intended to buy."

Boom! I got double RICED

Guess they forgot to throw in the kicker about your Best Buy PS3 bundle actually being a, BOOM, rice pilaf and canned spam special.

They might have well as said one of two things.

"Ha, ha, sucker! We were looking for a dubious pawn to dump that fake PS3 upon. Too bad it wasn't a kids' only present at christmas."

or worse yet

"You are a fraudalent liar. I don't care how many thousands of dollars you or your company has bought without problems over the years. Count yourself lucky that we haven't called the police yet to have you arrested."

I'm very happy that it happened to me instead of a kids only christmas present with no recourse to return. The part that made me livid was the fact that they would insinuate that I was the one trying to SCAM them.

Fraud - Someone is Guilty

Best Buy says I'm the scam artist because I didn't return it the same day. In fact I waited 7 days for these reasons.

I bought it right at closing time.
I bought other A/V equipment the same day that I worked on configuring first.
I didn't dream Best Buy would accuse me of fraud after selling me rice.
Customer service is the main reason to buy local rather than on-line.
The store is next to my office, so I decided to save time and gas until I was back in the area.
Would not a scam artist try to return it the next day instead of waiting. There is no benefit to waiting.
I assumed this was a common scam and figured I'd wait until others had returned theirs and wait for a less busy time of year for Best Buy

How did the Best Buy PS3 Scam work

Here I can only speculate to when and how the scam was pulled off and then passed onto me.

Problem 1. Easy access inside without breaking the seal.

While the PS3 box does have seals, the bottom is fairly easy to open, remove the contents and put back into place without breaking the seals. I have to assume this was how Young Indy removed the PS3 and inserted the bag of rice.

Problem 2. Beat up boxes on display.

All of the PS3 boxes at the Atlanta, GA Best Buy Perimeter store were pretty beat up and damaged. Ironically, I picked up a different box first and then swapped it with the one I purchased just because that box looked so beat up and damaged, that I didn't want a faulty PS3. I assumed with the end of Christmas season Best Buy must have been a madhouse and thats why all the boxes were in such bad shape.

Problem 3. Best Buy Return Practices.

If it was a customer that returned the the rice job, then Best Buy employees are supposed to check the contents of the box. Perhaps, it was just crazy busy, understandable, or the clerk working returns that day was in on it.

Problem 4. Sony cheaper packaging problem

In talking with a former Best Buy employee about my problem, they stated that the old packaging had a window direct to the PlayStation that allowed employees to scan direct to the machine at point of sale, rather than just the box. This is no longer the case, probably cheaper, which is what makes this Rice Scam possible.

Best Way to Avoid Best Buy Scams

I guess the moral of the story here, is that you have to treat Best Buy just like any other street vendor possibly running a scam. Hold up the lines and open every purchase while they watch. Otherwise you are walking away with just a box and no guarantees your new PS3 isn't a bag of rice or that your Xbox360 isn't a bag of coffee grounds.

Sony Rice Station 3 Game - It only does everything

Well since the Sony PS3 team has made the slogan that "It only does everything", feel free to leave comments about what my new bag of rice can do since Best Buy felt it better to pass the fraudulant blame onto the consumer.

Here is a list my friends on Facebook and MohawksRock.com have already started

More flavor to savor.
Less filling. Tastes Great.
Beat reality gaming experience for Grand Theft.

Thanks for listening, please pass on (Twitter, FB, Digg etc)

Fortunately we do now have a voice that can be heard now, thanks to social media.

Experts Exchange for Free: Hacking without Login Account or Password

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:47:24 GMT

Need Expert Exchange Free, Fast & w/o Login or Password?

Use this trick to reverse their SEO hack and get your expert answers free.

Normally, I would not give out the process for freely subverting a companies password security system. However, experts exchange is highly annoying teasing you with answers in search results, then wasting your time when you land upon their page. They do this all by using hacks that should have them banned from search engines. If you work in technology you will love this trick.

Experts-Exchange practices black hat SEO tricks to annoy you. Now you get to use their own tricks against them to get the answers you need now, no logins, no accounts, no passwords, just some new Mad Ninja Skills.

Ever wonder why you hate Experts Exchange so much? You search some random technical question and BAM! there they are like the Wikipedia of strange IT questions. You click, then you sink realizing you've come to the answer barren boneyard of locked accounts and passwords. Making matters worse, no way can you get an approval past the financial guys to buy an account called "Experts Exchange" when you are suppose to be the expert.

How do they get up there in the Google results anyhow? Isn't Google's job to help me find relevant information I can use right now, no passwords needed? They are using a technique banned by Google and yet somehow still have ranking. They are showing you the user one page and the Google SEO bot a different page (hint: the one with the freaking answers!). In the long run, this is good for us, because we will be exploiting their blackhat technique to get what we need; the answers, now, fast and free.

Ninja Steps for Accessing Experts Exchange for Free

1) Use Ninja Skills:
Hide in Googlebot sheeps clothing.
2) Hide Faster:
Install this Firefox Extension Double Secret User Agent Switcher
3) Become Like Night:
Go to "Tools" -> "User Agent Switcher" -> "Search Robots" -> "GoogleBot 2.1"
4) Infiltrate Enemy Lines:
Go to Experts Exchange and find an interesting question.
5) Slip Through Backdoor:
Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the solutions.

The extension cloaks your browser to tell their servers that you are a Googlebot looking for their content. They want these spiders to see the solutions so that they will rank higher in the search engines. So instead of hiding them from you so you have to sign up for their account and get a login and password, they now freely hand you the keys to the castle cloaked in your double secret ninja user agent outfit.

Yes, the link I gave them does give them free SEO keyword juice, but I figured even ninjas have to have hearts at times. Hopefully, one day, expert exchange will come up with a fair business model not based upon tricking Google and annoying visitors.

Enjoy Experts Exchange for Free.

Lunch and Learn Slides - Concourse Office Park

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:45:52 GMT

Concourse Lunch n Learn Notes, Slides and URLs

A big thanks goes out to the concourse office park in Atlanta, GA for kindly hosting their "lunch and learn" series and inviting me to speak last Wednesday.

I'd also like to thank everyone that came and participated in the discussion. I've been told it was the largest "lunch and learn" group they've had and we even managed to keep everyone awake too.

If you didn't have a chance to join us last Wednesday, then I invite you to join us Thursday, April 1, 2010 at the Ravinia Club's Professional Development Series. I will be speaking upon "Online Communities, Brand Management Tips, and Productivity Tools" which will cover some of this material along with an emphasis toward online communities.

As promised at our lunch and learn, below is a listing of the URLs and tools we talked about along with the slides. This is certainly not a complete list of available tools, or even the tools that compete in each segment. It is meant to give you an idea of what is possible out there on the world wide web. If you find a particular tool or set of tools that you want to learn more about or find out what else like this is out there I suggest using this quick and handy tip below to find competitive products quickly with Google.

Video - 1:15 - Find Competitors Using Google

Presentation Outline from March 24, 2010

Security Section

Domains, Remembering Different Passwords, Phishing
Alexa.com
Compete.com

Productivity

Google Docs - docs.google.com
DropBox - dropbox.com
Delicious - delicious.com - 5 ideas to get started social bookmarking
Remember The Milk - rememberthemilk.com
Google Apps - Docs, Email, Calendar, Chat, Voice - apps.google.com

Brand Management

Search Engines - Google.com, Yahoo.com, Bing.com
Media Search - YouTube.com, Images.Google.com
Big City Social Media - FaceBook.com, LinkedIn.com, Twitter.com, MySpace.com
Twitter Search - Search.Twitter.com
Twitter Applications - TweetDeck.com
Google Alerts - alerts.google.com
RSS Reader - reader.google.com, netvibes.com

Sites Mentioned during talk

The Tall Street Journal - TheTallStreetJournal.com
Integress - MeetIntegress.com
Atlanta User Groups - AtlantaUserGroups.com
Dakota Simms - DakotaSimms.com
Mohawks Rock - MohawksRock.com

Contacting Cheyenne

www.CheyenneJack.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cheyennejack
cheyenne [at] thetallstreetjournal
Twitter.com/CheyenneJack - @CheyenneJack

We also talked about CommonCraft.com and some of their great video tutorials. The above link on social bookmarking has one of their tutorials, and I'll leave you with another on how RSS Readers work here.

Measuring Social Media ROI

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:20:02 GMT

Question: What is the ROI on Social Media?

Answer: What is the ROI of Your Phone?

How can you measure the value of having a phone for your company?
How do you evaluate the ability to have people call you about everything from customer support to new business?
Is it easier to show a "Negative ROI" for not having phone?
Would you even consider not having a phone in your business today?

Social media is as vital as a phone for the new business model while delivering greater results with more accuracy, in less time and fewer costs. If your business plan calls for a phone line, go ahead and stick in a social media plan. You will be glad you did.

However, if you or your boss is not yet convinced then take a look at this 4 minute video with plenty of "ROI numbers" to show you how the future leaders of business are scraping the old guard off the grid by utilizing a social media strategy.

Question: Where is that memo from 1996 calling email 'a flash in the pan; just something for kids and moms to send jokes and recipes; certainly not a useful tool in the business enterprise'?

Answer: The better question is which unemployment line the writer of that memo has been standing in for the last 10 years.

Got Your Revolution! Right Here, Right Now.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:53:19 GMT

The song in this informative video is by Fatboy Slim and called "Right Here, Right Now", which could not be more accurate. Sure, there is an ongoing argument about whether social media is an evolution or revolution.

You can argue what you like, but know this. It is a GAME-CHANGER, and it is "Right Here, Right Now".

"Get busy living, or get busy dying", thats the kidney shot heard 'round the world right into your business. Social engagement cannot be avoided; only embraced. How will you react?

For those of you that want to read over the statements in the video quickly or come back after watching the video to the statistic that most jumped out at you, I've written them all down below.

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
96% of Gen Y have joined a social network
Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
1 in 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
Years to reach 50million users (Radio: 38 years, TV: 13 years, Internet: 4 years, iPod: 3 years)
Facebook alone added 100 Million users in less than 9 months
iPod Application downloads hit 1Billion in 9 months
If FaceBook were a country it would be the world's 4th largest, just behind China, India and the United States
China's Qzone is larger than Facebook with 300 million using their services
2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average online students out-performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
The fastest growing segment on FaceBook is 55-65 year-old females
Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland, Norway and Panama
80% of twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences.
Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passe
In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
What happens in Vegas stays on Social Media (Flickr, YouTube, Digg, MySpace, etc)
YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
YouTube has more than 100,000,000 videos
Wiki is an Hawaiian term = Quick
Wikipedia has over 13 million articles
Studies show that it is more accurate than Encyclopedia Brittanica (not to mention refreshed faster)
78% of the articles are non-English
If you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156.23... per hour.
There are over 200,000,000 Blogs.
54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily
"Word of mouth" is being replaced by a "World of mouth"
25% of search results for the World's Top 20 largest brands are links to UGC, user-generated content (aka social media)
34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
Do you like what they are saying about your brand? [Do you even know]? You Better.
People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
78% of consumers trust peer recommendations; only 14% trust advertisements
Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
90% of people that can TiVo ads, do.
Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
70% of 18-34 year-olds have watched TV on the Web
Only 33% have ever viewed a show on DVR/TiVo
25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video... on their phone
35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle
24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation
We no longer search for the news, the news finds us
In the near future we will no longer search for products and services, they will find us via social media
Social Media isn't a fad it's a fundamental shift in the way we [mass] communicate
More than 1.5 million pieces of content (links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook, Daily
"It's the econonmy stupid." -James Carville, 1992 :: "It's a people driven economy stupid" - Erik Qualman, 2009
Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy (Listen First, Sell Second)
Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than tranditional advertisers.

The video and its source data can be found by the creators at SocialNomics.com

Social Buzzword Potpourri Poem

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:17:03 GMT

In preparation for a presentation next week to cover the social media landscape I figured it would be more fun to create a social media buzzword poem, rather than dully list hundreds of terms and sites out there.

In the spirit of collaborative community, feel free to add on some stanzas yourself!

Social Buzzword Potpourri

Twitter me this, Wiki me that,
Should I really care about a lolcat
Whyâd I get poked on my Facebook
Should I blog on my netbook?

Has YouTube killed the video star
Or made it more delicious by far
Did Microsoft StumbleUpon Bing
Should I Digg anything Ning?

Widgets to elf myself and stock tickers
On Picasa and Zooomr, what about Flickr
Can I Cha Cha with mobile or just my MySpace
SEO, Messy-O Will you just Fixya this place?

Atlanta User Groups

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:46:36 GMT

Announcing AtlantaUserGroups.com

A resource for Atlantans to find and promote quality educational events that occur in the metro atlanta area.

Serving my second term now as president for the Atlanta Cold Fusion User Group I have recognized that it was not just my group but other Adobe groups and actually just other groups in Atlanta that tend to struggle with some of the same key obstacles.

With the help of other user group organizers, we are building a social community resource at Atlanta User Groups to help solve some if not more of the common issues listed here.

promoting the meetings, especially to newer and younger audiences
finding speakers and topics of interest in Atlanta
getting sponsors and prizes
knowing what other groups are presenting upon
securing venues sometimes in other areas of town

To address some of thes points the site was created for members to

Post Events
Create Groups
Start Discussions
Share Blogs
Add Photos

Those are just a few of the options currently available, with more to come as the network matures and gains the support of more user groups around Atlanta. Currently we already have leaders from the Flex, Microsoft, Perl, SQL, Agile, ColdFusion, InDesign and PHP groups starting to form our core while we keep registration closed currently.

Here are two examples of top quality events by Microsoft being offered for free, that you may not have known about without having known to visit their sites, or by checking the Atlanta User Group Calendar, which, through crowdsourcing, will include a great number of Atlantas quality educational events happening every month.

June 1 â The MSDN Sourthern Fried Roadshow

Join Microsoft Evangelists Chad Brooks, Glen Gordon and Brian Hitney as they present a half day event packed full of great information for developers and architects. Spend the afternoon learning about Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure.

http://www.atlantausergroups.com/events/msdn-southern-fried-roadshow

June 11 â Windows 7 LoadFest

A great way to get a head start on the training you need RIGHT now with this FREE seminar, so you can be prepared when users call you about Windows 7. This session will enable you to hit the road running on the latest version of Windows, or at the very least, help you find out if this is really as good as you have heard!

http://www.atlantausergroups.com/events/windows-7-load-fest

Look for future articles either here or on the site explaining:

Who can benefit by joining AtlantaUserGroups.com?

Group Organizers
Entrepreneurs
Knowledge Workers
Freelancers
Sponsors
Hiring Managers
Bloggers
Venue Managers
Catering Companies
Small Business Owners

Social Media Trends in Health Care

Tue, 19 May 2009 03:07:19 GMT

What are some of the social media trends in health care today?

A brief look at these statistics and trends in health care on the social web should help organizations understand the impact of engaging with social media tools to help in spreading their message. It does not matter if you are a pharma company trying to connect with patients, or if you are a medical education provider looking for ways to utilize social bookmarking.

Social media may have its roots in the trendy tweener population but is growing trees of marketing data that the health care industry can utilize to improve their message delivery and improve the healthcare information being consumed online in the social media landscape.

This video is helping to advertise the Health Care New Media Conference in mid June. I have pulled many of the statistics about social media trends in health care from the video and included them below for easier reading and comparison.

Trends in Social Media and Health Care
60 Million consumers are using new media to interact and share their health experiences online
250 hospitals use social media
93% of e-patients said that the internet made it possible to ge the medical information that they needed
Health Care Information Technology now represents a $36.7 Billion/year market
Search Engine Trends
93% of global consumers use search engines to find and access websites
72% of e-patients searched for medical information just before or after a doctor's visit
Facebook Trends
Facebook has 175 Million active users
3.5 Million users become fans of Facebook pages each day
Roughly 1,200 Facebook communities advocate for cures for different chronic illnesses
83 hospitals have Facebook Pages
Twitter Trends
Feb 2008 - 475,000 unique visitors.
Feb 2009 - 7,000,000 unique visitors.
160 U.S. hospitals have Twitter accounts
YouTube Trends
100,000,000 Million Videos viewed on YouTube every day.
131 hospitals have YouTube Channels in the US
Other Social Media Trends
77% of active internet users read blogs - Universal McCann (March 2008)
23 Million Americans have downloaded and listened to an audio podcast in the past month - Edison Media Research

Feel free to add more stastistics and social media trends, especially for healthcare, in the comments. I will also see if I can find the sources for these statistics in the future.

Best Atlanta Tapas Restaurant - Cellar 56

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:55:43 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Last night I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down to taste test Atlanta's newest tapas restaurant, Cellar 56, in Andrews Square. My mouth enjoyed plate after plate of some of the most delightful palates and combinations of flavors from the kitchen of chef Paul Agnelli. The last time my tongue experienced such a sensory overload was dining at the famous Seegers while it was still in operation just a few blocks down the road from the Cellar 56 location.

56 East Andrews Dr NW, Atlanta, GA, 30305

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Cellar 56 earns its namesake from the cozy basement like decor and list of 56 wines to compliment the wide assortment of tapas from the garden, land and sea. My hat goes off to Chef Paul for creating a unique menu full of wonderful, sometimes soothing and often times beautiful clashing new and intricate bursts of flavor. Chef Paul formerly with the Capital Grille and Van Gogh's brings such a vibrant zest out in these dishes, that while wine is welcome it certainly is not necessary. The foods and spices alone let ones mouth dance in the pleasured assortments of flatbreads, cheeses, meats, vegetables and perfectly combined dishes of Cellar 56.

Have you visited Cellar 56?
Leave your comments or click the images below to read my full menu reviews of Cellar 56 from the "Best Of" to the complete listing of their wines.

Cellar 56 Menu - Best of Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Seafood Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Garden Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Dessert Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Wine Selection

Cellar 56 - Best of Tapas Menu

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:05:32 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Part of 7-article Cellar 56 Review at CheyenneJack.com

Cellar 56 Best of Menu Review

Cellar 56 Best Overall Tapas Dish

Herb Roasted Prestige Farms Chicken, Caramelized Shallot Butter
I have eaten a lot of chicken in my lifetime. I expected a basic staple chicken dish to be offered among the more eclectic dishes. Wow, was I proved wrong. This was by far the juiciest, most delectable chicken I have ever tasted. Chicken will never be the same again after tasting this perfectly prepared bird. I really wanted to report some exotic dish as the best, but this will shock you in its simpleness and yet mind-blowing richness. Wow.

Cellar 56 Best Tapas Combination

Green Chile/Prosciutto Mac & Cheese
& Guinness Braised Short Rib, Natural Reduction
These are not served together and individually they are great dishes that I think will be amazing when combined. The Mac n Cheese is delicious with the spicy chile giving it a solid kick of flavor. The braised short rib was extremely juicy and succulent with amazing flavor falling right off the bone (hopefully into my Mac N Cheese next time). Mountain men will shower up, shave and dawn a jacket just to get at this down home combination.

Cellar 56 Best Tapas from the Sea

Jumbo Lump Crabmeat, Avocado, Grapefruit Mojo
This has the potential to be a Cellar 56 signature dish. This unique blend of flavors with the crabmeat and avocados smattered with the Mojo is a treat. Hopefully they will offer a small cracker with this dish in the future. In doing so, I think this will be a requisite dish for all new-comers to try. Even repeat visitors will enjoy consistently starting their Cellar 56 tapas dining experience with this signature "get ready to explore taste tonight" dish.

Cellar 56 Best Tapas from the Garden

Grilled Flatbread, Roma Tomatoes, Maplebrook Farms Mozzarella
So good I didn't even realize I wasn't eating a boutique pizza full of all the fattening pepperoni and meats. By far my favorite dish served atop their delicious flatbread options and the top dish from the garden menu.

Cellar 56 Best Tapas Dessert

Coconut Cream Pie
Dessert came by the time my mouth had wound its way through the dizzying array of all of Chef Paul's flavors from the garden, land and sea. I was not sure if I would be able to take on much more. Then I dived into the coconut creme pie. It was amazing and so delicious, I wanted to be like a real cow and fill my other 6 stomachs with this delightful dish. Even those that did like coconut at the table still raved about this sweet. This pie now tops my list beating out the Haupia Mud Pie found on the North Shore of Hawaii.

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Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Seafood Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Garden Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Dessert Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Wine Selection

Cellar 56 Menu - Dessert Tapas

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:43:21 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Part of 7-article Cellar 56 Review at CheyenneJack.com

Cellar 56 Sweet Menu Review - $3

Best of Dessert Tapas - Coconut Cream Pie
Dessert came by the time my mouth had wound its way through the dizzying array of all of Chef Paul's flavors from the garden, land and sea. I was not sure if I would be able to take on much more. Then I dived into the coconut creme pie. It was amazing and so delicious, I wanted to be like a real cow and fill my other 6 stomachs with this delightful dish. Even those that did like coconut at the table still raved about this sweet. This pie now tops my list beating out the Haupia Mud Pie found on the North Shore of Hawaii.

Blueberry Crumble, Gingerbread, Lemon Curd
This sounds to be a great dish. I can only speculate that it must have been superior, since by the time I had devoured the rest of plates, they unfortunately had run out of this treat. Fortunately, we made amends with another Coconut Creme Pie.

Oolong Tea Crème Brulee
Creme Brulee and all its hardened sugar splendor is a fabulous dessert. This was no exception, but neither was it extraordiary from other brulees. Use the last bit of empty stomach you have wisely and delve into the distinguished pleasures of the Coconut Creame Pie or the Caramel Bread Pudding.

White Chocolate/Caramel Bread Pudding
This dish was to die for and had I eaten it first, then it may have taken top honors beating out the Coconut Creme Pie. The base of this lush explosion of sinful delight is a Krispy Kreme doughnut. I am not sure how the transformation is made but upon that first bite, that doughnut goes from to die for straight to heavenly.

Pot of Chocolate
Pound Cake, Marshmallow, Strawberry, Pineapple, Sugar Cookie
I am used to the chocolate fountains from Atlanta Chocolate Fountains, so this dessert struck me as just plain "vanilla" but a nice activity-based dish that may be an excellent choice for that perfect date.

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Cellar 56 Menu - Best of Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Sea Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Garden Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Wine Selection

Cellar 56 Menu - Garden Tapas

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:39:23 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Part of 7-article Cellar 56 Review at CheyenneJack.com

Cellar 56 Garden Menu Review - $4

Best of Garden - Grilled Flatbread, Roma Tomatoes, Maplebrook Farms Mozzarella
So good I didn't even realize I wasn't eating a boutique pizza full of all the fattening pepperoni and meats. By far my favorite dish served a top their delicious flatbread options and the top dish from the Garden menu.

Heirloom Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Sweet Grass Dairy Triple Cream
Saute of Wild Mushrooms, Locatelli Polenta
The mushrooms didn't seem to bring much flavor to the dish, and the polenta tasted liked tight-packed gritz. Obviously, I don't know much about polenta. The table did love it. Oddly enough, I think I still I liked it; perhaps it was the textures with some flavor.

Roasted Garlic Humus, Whole Peppadews
The peppadews looked like they would have more flavor than they did. The hummus was just hummus, nothing terribly notable. Granted I'm used to loving the hummus at Taverna Plaka, where you get to crush it and make it yourself at your table.

Grilled Corn, Spicy Aioli, Lime, Queso Cojita
The corn comes on the cob and is really absolutely delicious. You get two half cobs, so splitting among more than two could be difficult. We ended up just getting another order for all four of us.

Cornmeal Fried Green Tomatoes, Cilantro Buttermilk, Goat Cheese
Tasty although nothing really to write home about. This was one of my first dishes and I was quite hungry, so I may not have taken the full amount of time to appreciate this classic southern dish.

Caramelized Garlic Risotto, Aged Balsamic
A mixture of delicious flavors. I didn't even know I liked Risotto until after savoring this dish. Granted, I still may not like average risotto, but I love Cellar 56 tapas risotto anyhow.

Marinated Olives
The olives were not extraordinarily special, but they do give you a large amount. I'd suggest using them to really cleanse your palate in between each delicious dish. This would be a more pertinent dish for this factor if you forgo the large wine selections at Cellar 56.

Daily Cheeses
The variety of cheeses had wonderfully distinct experiences for your mouth. The honey comb on the plate to combine with the cheese was my favorite way of tasting the cheeses in new unknown ways to my tastebuds.

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Cellar 56 Menu - Best of Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Sea Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Sweet Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Wine Selection

Cellar 56 Menu - Seafood Tapas

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:35:06 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Part of 7-article Cellar 56 Review at CheyenneJack.com

Cellar 56 Sea Menu Review - $5

Best Sea Tapas - Jumbo Lump Crabmeat, Avocado, Grapefruit Mojo
This has the potential to be a Cellar 56 signature dish. This unique blend of flavors with the crabmeat and avocados smattered with the Mojo is a treat. Hopefully they will offer a small cracker with this dish in the future. In doing so, I think this will be a requisite dish for all new-comers to try. Even repeat visitors will enjoy consistently starting their Cellar 56 tapas dining experience with this signature, "Get Ready to Explore Taste Tonight" dish.

Seared New Bedford Scallop, Sweet Corn, Nueskeâs Applewood Bacon
You receive just one perfectly flavored scallop in this dish, but forunately it is very large and can be cut into 4 bites and shared. Be careful though, sharing may lead to many more table orders of this delightful seafood tapas dish.

Sweet Georgia White Shrimp, Tasso Gravy, Logan Turnpike Grits
Two very large, very tasty shrimp. I didn't taste too much of the extra flavorings but only because I think the shrimps flavor was so great it overpowered the rest.

Pan Fried Oysters, Cayenne Sweet Potatoes, Smithfield Gravy
I'm not an oyster fan myself, but these were quite good. The rest of the dish was extraordinarily tastey. I'm sure the carpenter and walrus to love would give it a thumb and a fin up: coo coo ca choo!.

Grilled Flatbread, BBQ Shrimp, J. Samuel Whiting Bacon
It took me until today to realize that we did not get this dish. Darn! Guess I'll have to go back sometime, starting with the lump crabmeat and avocado dish of course.

Flash Fried Calamari, Peppadew Peppers, Red Chile Aoili
This tapas is like a strange blend of authenticate mexican salsa and calamari combined. This assault of flavors threw me off at first, but started to grow on me just as the plate was replaced by more food to be sampled.

Crock of Mussels, Grilled Ciabatta
The mussels had a very good buttery flavor to them, only to be whisked away by the flavor of mussle in my mouth. I'm not really a mussle in my mouth fan, so I didn't like this dish much. However, someone who does like mussles and butter may enjoy tearing these guys out of their shells and devouring away.

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Cellar 56 Menu - Best of Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Garden Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Sweet Tapas

Cellar 56 Menu - Wine Selection

Cellar 56 Menu - Land Tapas

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:16:09 GMT

Cellar 56 - Atlanta, Georgia - Tapas and Wine Bar

Part of 7-article Cellar 56 Review at CheyenneJack.com

Cellar 56 Land Menu Review - $5

Grilled Flat Iron, Chimichurri, Arugula
The steak alone is very tasty, however do not miss the opportunity to relish in a the set of flavors induced by combining the meat with the arugula.

Chipotle Pork, Corn Relish, Arbol Vinaigrette
This is a solid piece of pork with good tenderness and flavor. The surrounding flavors are nothing to write home about. This is the type of staple dish I would expect of any tapas restaurant. That is what I excepted of the chicken until it absolutely blew me away.

Grilled Lamb Chops
A steak knife would have helped to separate the meat from bone. You get two pieces of meat each with two bones. I did not find this particular plate to be greatly satisfying for your $5, as it just tasted like a small portion of lamb chops.

Grilled Flatbread, Duck Confit, Fig Jam, Point Reyes Blue
This combination of flavors on top of their delicious flatbread did not dissapoint. Duck lovers should really enjoy this and make them wonder why duck isn't an option at Papa Johns.

Grilled Flatbread, Slow Roasted Pork, Sweet Grass Dairy Heat
This was this least flavorable of the flatbreads. Something along the way was missing. Definitely try one of the other two flat breads first. If you are a diehard pork lover, then just go for the chipotle pork, which packs better flavor for your fiver.

Best of Entire Menu - Herb Roasted Prestige Farms Chicken, Caramelized Shallot Butter

I've eaten a lot of chicken in my lifetime. I expected a basic staple chicken dish to be offered among the more eclectic dishes. Wow, was I proved wrong. This was by far the juiciest, most delectable chicken I have ever tasted. Chicken will never be the same again after tasting this perfectly prepared bird. I really wanted to report some exotic dish as the best, but this will shock you in its simpleness and yet mind-blowing richness. Wow.

Best Combination - Green Chile/Prosciutto Mac & Cheese
& Guinness Braised Short Rib, Natural Reduction

These are not served together and individually they are great dishes that I know will be amazing when combined. The Mac n Cheese is delicious with the spicy chile giving it a solid kick of flavor. The braised short rib was extremely juicy and succulent with amazing flavor falling right off the bone (hopefully into my Mac N Cheese next time). Mountain men will shower up, shave and dawn a jacket just to get at this down home combination.

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