The first metro Atlanta location of Nashville-based health food concept E+Rose Wellness is now open.
Located at 1100 Howell Mill Road in the Westside Provisions District, the cafe is the first of three planned for the area, with locations in Midtown on Peachtree Street and in Old Fourth Ward set to open later this year.
The “plant-forward” menu offers a variety of superfood smoothies, açaí bowls, toasts, organic cold-pressed juices, and coffee drinks. Grab-and-go items include wraps, salads and grains.
Founded in 2015 by registered dietitian Robbie Nowinski in Nashville, E+Rose operates eight locations throughout Nashville.
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Longtime Atlanta nightclub MJQ Concourse will host its last party at its original location at 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. this weekend, before reopening in the former Dante’s Down the Hatch space at Underground Atlanta. Read more here.
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Credit: (Courtesy of the Colonnade)
Credit: (Courtesy of the Colonnade)
The Colonnade, one of the oldest restaurants in Atlanta, will be open daily starting Feb. 1.
The eatery, which serves dishes including fried chicken, turkey and dressing and salmon croquettes, is currently closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
The new hours will be 5-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; noon-9 p.m. Saturdays; and noon-8 p.m. Sundays. The menu is the same for lunch and dinner service.
Located at 1879 Cheshire Bridge Road, the Colonnade was purchased last year by regulars Paul Donahue and Lewis Jeffries, who also own Lingering Shade Social Club on the Eastside Beltline.
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Credit: Courtesy of Green Olive Media
Credit: Courtesy of Green Olive Media
C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar is now open in the Galleria on the Park development at 600 Galleria Parkway SE.
The menu features a variety of raw bar options, hors d’oeuvres, steaks, fish and entrée specials. Signature dishes include RC’s chargrilled oysters, clam chowder, lobster roll, and New York strip. The beverage program features a selection of wines, craft cocktails and seasonal drinks.
Spanning over 6,000 square feet, the new space features 130 interior dining seats, a 20-seat bar, a private dining room for 50, and a wine room with a chef’s table for six. The restaurant also has a large, multi-level patio.
Designed by Z-Space Design Inc., the interior of this new C&S location has an Art Deco influence with a marble floor inspired by the Chrysler Building, the atmosphere, sculpted ceilings and hand-painted tile mural in the private dining room.
Starting Jan. 27, C&S’ hours will be 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays; 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays; 4-10 p.m. Saturdays; and 4-9 p.m. Sundays.
Rich Clark and Jon Schwenk opened the first C&S Seafood and Oyster Bar in 2007 in Vinings, with a second following in Sandy Springs in 2020 and a third location in Brookhaven in 2023. The Vinings location closed last year, with plans to relocate to Galleria on the Park near Battery Atlanta and Truist Park.
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Credit: Angela Hansberger
Credit: Angela Hansberger
Two dessert concepts are now open at Midtown mixed-use development Atlantic Station.
Located next to Atlantic Grill and across from Old Navy, cookie shop Munster Cravings offers classic cookies including chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodle alongside specialty flavors like peanut butter and jelly, peach cobbler, butter waffle and cinnamon roll.
The menu also features seasonal flavors, mini cookies and vegan options.
This marks the third metro Atlanta brick-and-mortar location of Munster Cravings, which Veronica Dalzon founded as a pop-up. The first opened in 2021 in the Chattahoochee Food Works food hall in Atlanta’s Upper Westside area, with a second following in 2022 in Tucker.
Located next to Regal Cinemas, the first Georgia location of Florida-based Yonutz serves its Smashed Donught and a Smashed Shake, combining doughnuts and ice cream with flavors including Reese’s peanut butter, Biscoff cookie butter and yellow Twinkie. Other menu offerings include mini doughnuts, ice cream, gluten-friendly options and mini doughnut decorating kits.
In addition, bowling alley and sports bar Bowlero is rebranding to Lucky Strike Entertainment early this year.
Other food and beverage concepts at Atlantic Station include Illy Coffee, California Pizza Kitchen, HOBNOB Neighborhood Tavern, Yard House, Angry Crab Shack, Azotea Cantina, Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, Toscano Ristorante Italiano and SriThai Kitchen.
Open since 2005 at 1380 Atlantic Drive NW, the 138-acre Atlantic Station neighborhood comes from real estate development firm Hines and includes retail, entertainment, restaurants, office space, hotels and housing.
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Growing dumpling franchise Dumpling Master, which has locations in Peachtree City and Alpharetta, is reportedly set to open more locations in Chamblee, Snellville, Decatur, Buford and Athens.
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New York-based Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is set to open its first Georgia location this year at Ponce City Market, Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. A second location is also in the works for Dunwoody.
The company, founded in New York City in 2008 by brothers Ben and Pete Van Leeuwen and Laura O’Neill, has more 50 locations across 10 states.
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Florida-based breakfast chain Keke’s Breakfast Cafe has opened at 2090 Baker Road in Kennesaw, the Marietta Daily Journal reports, with a second location slated for later this year in Roswell.
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Wine cafe Postino has closed at 1000 Marietta St. in the Brickworks development, Tomorrow’s News Today reports. The Phoenix-based chain’s location on Roswell Road remains open.
In addition, the west Midtown location of breakfast restaurant Snooze an a.m. Eatery will shutter Jan. 31 at 980 Howell Mill Road in the Osprey development. Six other metro Atlanta locations will remain open.
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Mobile coffee business Stellow Coffee and Flora is set to open its first brick-and-mortar space at 3466 Chamblee Dunwoody Way in Chamblee, What Now Atlanta reports.
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