A renamed Buckhead shopping center will soon welcome a first-to-market restaurant. Buckhead Landing, previously known to many as the "Disco Kroger" shopping center, will in 2024 welcome Burtons Grill & Bar, a "polished casual" restaurant. Based in Andover, Massachusetts, Burtons got its start in 2005 and today includes nineteen locations across eight states. In the south, the chain has a pair of locations in North Carolina and single units in South Carolina and Florida.
Voted "#1 most allergy-friendly restaurant" 2017-2020 by AllergyEats, Burtons prides itself on accommodating food allergies, sensitivities to gluten, or vegetarian, paleo and other diets.
The restaurant has been described as "Houston's-like" and features a menu centered on burgers, steaks, salads and seafood. Burtons will no doubt look to capture some of the business left behind by BrickTop's, another Houston's-like concept, which previously closed in the bottom of Terminus, a stone's throw from Buckhead Landing.
Several of Burtons' co-founders were involved with Outback Steakhouse in the 1990s, including venture capitalist Don Burton, himself an early investor in Outback and the man who gave the restaurant its name. The original founders sold the business in 2022 to a new group of investors who installed John Haggai, another former Outback Steakhouse alum, as CEO.
Locations were planned for Palm Beach and Tampa, Florida in 2020 and 2021, respectively, but never opened. The Buckhead outpost will likely mark the brand's third new unit under the current ownership and leadership. A new Burtons Grill opened June 20 at Carytown Exchange, another Regency Centers-owned center in Richmond, Virginia.
A new franchise of Waxing The City also recently signed on to open in the Buckhead center. Renovations at Buckhead Landing are already underway with leasing materials suggesting that the center and its new tenants will arrive in three phases. An updated site plan indicates that the center has more than a dozen spaces available, including those previously vacated by Jason's Deli and World Market.
The biggest arrival at the center will be a new Publix grocery store which will replace the "Disco Kroger" which closed at the end of 2022 after nearly 50 years in business. The new Publix, on which ToNeTo Atlanta was first to report in 2021, is expected to open in the third quarter of 2024. Burtons should open by summer 2024.
Have you ever been to Burtons Grill & Bar? Do you think Burtons Grill & Bar will do well in Buckhead? Does the idea of a restaurant that caters to specific dietary needs interest you?
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8 comments:
It will be a crime scene immediately.
Won't last in Buckhead without hookah. No cap.
That’s what she said to you.
I predict it will start off great with good staff and good reviews. Soon however, low tips and demanding clientele will run off the wait staff and service will become mediocre.
@ 7:05, Good one, but I'm a chick.
Burton's is OK. Would be better if a Kelly's opened up down here instead of the ATL area getting crappy Whataburger and other southern-centric chains. Southerners don't know food.
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I am never able to not be anonymous on with this system, so let me say I’m Steve from Dunwoody. We have been to the Burtons in Mount Pleasant, SC and found it underwhelming. Meh food at white linen prices.
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