Aqua blue's $25 three-course, prix fixe dinner menu is not part of any restaurant week promotion - it's valid after 4 p.m. for the entire month of April at this Roswell favorite. Start with classic, creamy New England clam chowder or your choice of the Aqua blue house salad or Caesar salad. Mains include Parmesan chicken with cheese ravioli and tomato marinara; butcher's cut hanger steak with garlic whipped potatoes, broccoli and green peppercorn sauce; salmon with polenta, grilled asparagus and roasted red pepper sauce; or pan-seared trout with sautéed mixed vegetables and lemon-caper butter sauce. Choose vanilla bean crème brûlée or warm chocolate cake to punctuate your meal. Priced per person; not including gratuity, tax, substitutions or alcohol.

What's in a name? At Chocolate South, nomenclature reflects fine ingredients plus a thick slathering of Southern traditions. Each chocolate-laden bite renders riches of premium ingredients and liqueurs, organic cream and spices, and local finds like Georgia pecans. How to describe such bonny bonbons? Hold a "Name that Bonbon!" contest. Through May 1, stop by the shop on Atlanta's Westside, sample the yet-to-be-named confection and fill in one of the special entry cards with your suggested moniker (and your name, of course, in case you win). Chocolate South will select a winner to receive recognition on the Chocolate South Facebook page, in their newsletter and display case; a Southern Culture Box containing one each of Ray, Elvis and "Allmand" Brothers from the Southern Musician Collection and Scarlett, Scout and Stella from the Southern Literature Heroines Collection; and a $25 Chocolate South gift certificate. Whoa. Feeling the sweet rush already! (Rules: Up to two entries per person and one entry per visit. Bonbon sample is free of charge -- one sample per entry per visit. Entries will be judged on originality and appropriateness; earliest date wins if duplicates.)

Pickled, distilled, fermented, preserved. Generations of Southerners leveraged these techniques to stockpile garden-fresh bounty for off-season eating. Boy howdy, grandma's crispy pickled okra was divine! Her skills are revered again as "New South" chefs and artisans respect the past while forging ahead into a deliciously diverse and inclusive future for Southern cuisine. Ford Fry and Kevin Gillespie epitomize this resurgence. The renowned chefs are two of the more than 35 chefs, artisans, mixologists and brewers flocking -- from all over the South -- to Summerland Farm to participate in the New South Family Supper: Preserving the Future of Southern Food on Sunday, April 6. Proceeds benefit the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Tickets are $250 per person and include the full experience: food, beverage, programming and round-trip luxury coach transportation from Star Provisions in Atlanta to Summerland Farm near Cartersville. Hop on the bus at 3:30 p.m. and ride out for 4:30 p.m. cocktails and appetizers followed by an early supper (gotta eat before the cows come home). Buses roll south to Star Provisions at 7:30 p.m. After that, whether you go back to your own barn or out on the town is up to you. If you can't farm out, you can still enjoy Ford Fry's style in town at JCT. Kitchen & Bar, No. 246, The Optimist, King + Duke and St. Cecilia. Gunshow, in Glenwood Park, is the place to go for Kevin Gillespie's local and worldly wows.