Highly Anticipated Restaurant Openings in Atlanta
Here are the most exciting restaurant openings we're waiting on with bated breath.
Bacchanalia founder chef Anne Quatrano is opening a new daytime restaurant called Summerland this fall. It is headed to Atlanta's newest indoor farmers market, Upper West Market. Much like Quatrano's Star Provisions, Summerland will feature fresh-baked goods, savory takeaway items, a coffee counter, a light-filled dining room, and an al fresco patio. The menu will also offer about a dozen dishes, including baked cottage cheese with eggs and a fine-herb salad, Carolina Gold rice porridge with roasted leeks, crispy onion, and soft egg, and chicken schnitzel with raw peanuts, pickled coriander, arugula, and lemon.
White Oak Pastures, Hop City, and Brash Coffee Roasters are some of the other food vendors joining the upcoming Upper West Market.
Popular Midtown Mexican restaurant El Valle will now have a new location in Brookhaven, according to chef Luis Damian, who is also behind Casa Balam in Decatur and Oaxaca in Chamblee. The restaurant is expected to open this August at the mixed-use development, Parkside on Dresden. El Valle is best known for its Baja tacos, ceviche, fine dining mains like pork tenderloin with mango salsa and braised wagyu short rib with black garlic mole, and an extensive Mexican wine list.
Chef Brian So and sommelier Daniel Crawford of one-Michelin-starred Spring have been dangling a carrot in front of us for a while on the opening of Spring 2nd Branch. The Korean eatery is now expected to open mid-August in Marietta Square, says So. Unlike Spring, which is a fine dining restaurant, the sister Spring 2nd Branch will be far more casual, where So will work with traditional Korean flavors.
Jason Furst and Sam Pinner recently opened Sammy's, a sandwich shop in Adair Park, which quickly became one of the best new restaurants in Atlanta. They are now slated to open Broad Street BBQ in South Downtown on 96 Broad Street. It is expected to open in the spring of next year. The barbecue joint will house a smokehouse, and if Sammy's is any indication of the food, expect meaty sandwiches here, too. See More: Atlanta Restaurant News
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