Sage Woodfire Tavern seems to have quietly closed its last remaining Atlanta area restaurant. The Dunwoody outpost, located in Park Place ( 4505 Ashford Dunwoody Road ) is now marked "permanently closed" on Google and its website is down. The upscale eatery occupied a roughly 8,300 square foot space in the center previously home to Houlihan's. Sage opened in the space in 2010.
The locally owned restaurant once had several locations around metro Atlanta but had just four at the time of its 2018 bankruptcy filing. At that time, Sage restaurants were located on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta, on Windy Hill Road not far from Truist Park, on Peachtree Road in Buckhead, and the Dunwoody restaurant on Ashford Dunwoody Road across from Perimeter Mall.
The Windy Hill and Alpharetta locations closed in 2018 shortly after the bankruptcy filing. In 2019, the Buckhead location (which had opened in place of the longstanding Morton's Steakhouse) just a year prior also closed. A location in East Cobb closed in 2017.
The Orient, a local Asian restaurant, opened in place of the Windy Hill Sage in early 2021 followed by 5Church, another local restaurant, opening in place of the former Buckhead location in 2022. ToNeTo Atlanta exclusively reported in January 2021 that Eddie V's Prime Seafood, an upscale restaurant from Darden, plans to demolish the former Alpharetta Sage and open a new restaurant in its place.
The East Cobb location was later briefly occupied by Jason's Deli but is vacant today.
Sage Woodfire Tavern's Dunwoody restaurant was in the news this past February after gunfire erupted in the restaurant’s parking lot. The suspects, Bernard Anthony Jones and Jailyn Reese, allegedly tried to leave the restaurant by "dining and dashing" and when a security guard [from Sage] confronted them in the parking lot and tried to get them to pay, an alternation occurred and Jones allegedly shot the guard three times, hitting him in the hand and shoulder. The guard survived and Anthony and Reese were subsequently charged and arrested on multiple charges in March, according to the City of Dunwoody.
Edens, the real estate firm that owns North DeKalb Mall (now Lulah Hills), Toco Hills, Merchants Walk, and Buckhead Market Place, among other centers, purchased Park Place in December 2021. Popular local restaurants Cafe Intermezzo, Eclipse di Luna, and McKendrick's Steakhouse remain open in the center. Alon's, however, another local favorite, closed their longstanding outpost in the center in early 2023, and more recently, Allen Edmonds, the luxury men's shoe retailer, moved from the center to nearby High Street. Existing restaurant franchise The Brass Tap, a Park Place tenant since February 2016, earlier this month dropped the franchise and rebranded as Cowboys & Caviar. The new restaurant reportedly offers a similar but enhanced food and cocktail menu with the addition of live music, too, in partnership with new business partner, Billy Allen.
What would you like to see open in place of Alon's, Sage or Allen Edmonds at Park Place? Have you been to Cowboys & Caviar? What is your favorite Dunwoody area restaurant?
Please share your thoughts below.
20 comments:
Terrible place. Can't believe it lasted this long.
They had terrible customer service and had too many rules.
Honestly not familiar w the cowboy place and I’m a clogger lol. Sage was a matter of time. No surprise there. We need LIDL or ALDI “somewhere!” not there, just sayin… We don’t even have a decent Chinese place! Why only pricy places here? Mac grill was great.
Cowboys and Caviar is a very off-putting name, so I haven’t tried it. I can’t find their menu online so can’t even see if they have something I want to try.
Exactly ! Management was so rude
When a restaurant needs to have security detail, maybe it's not a place to go to?
Rules? Like what?
Edens is high rent - so it will attract national chains and restaurants with high price points to bring in that kind of revenue. Hope they don't run off McKendricks.
Not sure we need a Lidl or Aldi. There's already a ton of grocery stores in Dunwoody. You can probably get to 10 stores within a 10 minute drive from the high school.
Rules? They probably enforced a proper dress code. That's what he/she means by rules. Other "rules" they don't like is no yelling into your cell phone so everyone around you can hear, and no watching videos on your cell phone so it disturbs people all around you.
Looks like the demographics did them in. That was predictable.
Always had kind of a split personality. Going for lunch/early dinner it was decent back in the day. But then the nightlife turn it into a club I never really understood. It never quite knew what it wanted to be...
It was awful! We had dinner with a group of friends and a few of us got sick. We all shared appetizers so not sure what dishes cause us to "party in the bathroom"! Food was okay at best and expensive. Called them and they said they would have a manager call me back and no one called. I'm glad they are gone now. Bye!
no we do not
Yep, we filled their toilets to the rim.
I agree Romano Macaroni Grill was perfect. I still don’t understand why they went under. It has to be just complete mismanagement. We had been going there for years even in other cities.
If you’re into high-quality steak and seafood, I would definitely give NcKendricks a shot, if you haven’t already. That place is truly beloved and makes you feel like you’re at home. They have great sides, great fish and great steaks memorable is there is a three or 4 foot tomahawk ribeye that completely falls off the plate. I would only get that if I was really hungry and if someone else was paying :-) I’d like to order my steaks, Oscar style, which comes with asparagus, seafood sauce, and blue? lump crab on top of the steak. I prefer McKendricks over Flemings, Ruth’s CHRIS, capital Grill, etc.
My manager loved this establishment even with poor service and food quality.
I dreaded the quarterly meetings and lunch at this restaurant.
Hopefully the staff has been compensated by management and they have found employment.
We went with another family with young kids after a high school football game, last year. We were the only white people there, and they put us in a completely separate room with previously closed doors. After walking through the "rowdy" crowds that smelled like a marijuana dispensary on the way into the restaurant and back & forth to the bathroom, we were definitely OK with the families vs. partygoers segregation, but it was extremely bizarre because it felt like they were doing it for our own safety. Again, it was appreciated, but needless to say, we never went back.
Same thing happened to me and my family with young children at Mckendricks. We're black and the "rowdy" crowd was caucasian. We were cordoned off with a couple of elderly families in a separate room too. I don't think our safety was in jeopardy. Think about it!
Sounds like a racist comment. Just because you were the only Caucasians doesn't make it dangerous. I always found that Black people, for the most part are more reserved than Caucasians when going out. There were plenty of Blacks placed in separate rooms as well.
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