Restaurant Openings
Underwood Hills — Chattahoochee Food Works
Sprint and Chutney
Owned by chef and Meals Community character Palak Patel, Sprint and Chutney opens August 22 at the food hall serving vegan takes on Indian road meals dishes. Search for samosa chaat and sev papdi chaat on the menu, together with vada pav (potato slider), a Mumbai grilled cheese, and road snacks like charred corn and hanvo (savory muffin with lentils). Patel has appeared on Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, and was a prime 4 contestant on season 14 of Meals Community Star. She additionally helped create menus for Dinner Lab supper membership occasions in a number of cities, together with Atlanta the place she now lives. [Official]
Virginia-Highland
Doughnut Dollies
A 3rd location of doughnut store Doughnut Dollies is now open on the nook of Virginia and North Highland avenues. The Marietta-based doughnut store, owned by chef Anna Gatti and Chris Gatti, changed Dtox Juice in Virginia-Highland. A grand opening is deliberate for Saturday, August 21, beginning at 8 a.m. Doughnut Dollies gives over two dozen traditional and seasonal yeast and cake doughnut flavors baked recent day by day, just like the Cereal Bowl topped with cereal milk frosting or the Candy Jane, a 24-hour brioche filled with vanilla pastry cream. Gluten free and alphabet letter doughnuts are additionally out there. For now, the store will solely shut on Mondays whereas the crew ramps up manufacturing. [Official]
Westside/Howell Mill
Snooze An A.M. Eatery
The primary in-town outpost of Snooze An A.M. Eatery opens September 1 on the new Osprey advanced on the nook of Howell Mill Highway and tenth Road. A Sandy Springs location of the Denver-based chain opened earlier this 12 months on the Gateway on Roswell Highway. The restaurant usually serves breakfast and brunch day by day from 6:30 a.m. till 2:30 p.m. with a menu that features a choice of egg dishes, like huevos rancheros, breakfast pot pie, benedicts, and omelettes, together with sandwiches, pancakes, and pancake flights. [Official]
Coming Sights
Brookwood Hills
The Regular
Nick’s Westside chef Nick Leahy and Sprint Hospitality founder David Abes plan to open the Regular on the Arya advanced throughout from El Azteca on Peachtree Road this fall, Atlanta journal first reported. Leahy returns to the neighborhood with a way more informal restaurant this time, after departing his Southern small plates restaurant Saltyard in 2018. The Regular will kick off its opening with dinner first, earlier than ultimately increasing to lunch and Sunday brunch. Search for dishes on the menu like cacio e pepe tater tots, smoked hen wings with Korean barbecue sauce, and pub fries with Mornay sauce, together with sandwiches reminiscent of a scorching Korean fried hen sandwich and Chicago-style scorching beef sandwich.
“The menu right here leans extra sandwiches and traditional bar-and-grill meals than Nick’s does. It’s rather less refined,” Leahy informed Atlanta of the Regular. [AM]
Duluth
Slutty Vegan
It seems Aisha “Pinky” Cole’s wildly profitable vegan burger joint Slutty Vegan is headed to Duluth subsequent. In keeping with What Now Atlanta, the fourth Atlanta-area location for the restaurant replaces Batteries Plus Bulbs on Nice Hill Highway. Cole first opened Slutty Vegan three years in the past within the Westview neighborhood. A second Slutty Vegan opened last summer in Jonesboro, Georgia, adopted by a third location on Edgewood Avenue within the Previous Fourth Ward final October. Cole is presently engaged on opening her fifth Slutty Vegan restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama. Earlier this 12 months, Cole opened Bar Vegan, an “experiential” restaurant and cocktail bar at Ponce City Market. [WNA]
Westside/Howell Mill — Star Metals
Sweetgreen
Fashionable salad and grain bowl chain Sweetgreen will apparently open a fourth Atlanta location on the rising Star Metals advanced on Howell Mill Highway, throughout from Westside Provisions District, the Atlanta Business Chronicle stories. It joins market Savi Provisions, UK-based Japanese restaurant chain Wagamama, beer and wine bar SMR Tap, and dart bar and restaurant Fight Club, all opening subsequent 12 months at Star Metals. Espresso store and roastery Prevail Roasters opened final fall on the advanced. Along with its Ponce Metropolis Market location, Sweetgreen places are additionally deliberate for Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead and at Colony Square in Midtown. [ABC]
Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport
Savi Provisions
A location of native market chain Savi Provisions is opening on Concourse B within the former Cafe Intermezzo house. Owned by Paul Nair, Savi consists of a number of places all through Atlanta and metro Atlanta and carries pantry and fridge staples, deli choices, ready meals, baked items, and beer and wine. Supply can also be out there from some places, which additionally promote ready meals and spices from Atlanta restaurant and market Bhojanic. [Official]
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