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A new pizza shop will soon open in place of The General Muir in Sandy Springs. ToNeTo Atlanta was first to report that after less than four years in business, the Jewish-style deli which closed as of Sunday September 29. We are now pleased to be able to exclusively share that its replacement is Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza.
The Flying Biscuit Cafe has closed its restaurant at Parkaire Landing in East Cobb. The restaurant was among the eateries in East Cobb that announced Friday they were closing due to weather concerns from Tropical Storm Helene. In a Facebook post announcing the Friday closure, the restaurant indicated it would, in fact, not reopen.
Pea Ridge Kitchen+Bar is for sale. The restaurant, located at 2607 Lawrenceville Highway, just north of McLendon Drive, carries a Decatur address. Pea Ridge occupies a freestanding 2,200 square foot building with inside seating for 62, bar seating for 12 and a patio that seats another 12 guests.
The owners of The General Muir took to Facebook Wednesday to announce the closure of their restaurant at City Springs in Sandy Springs. The restaurant, sibling of the original at The Point near Emory University, opened in January 2021 and never quite reached the business level needed to sustain the operation.
Aveda will close its longstanding store at Lenox Square in Buckhead as of September 24. The 776 square foot store on the mall's main level close to Bloomingdale's, informed customers of the closure late Monday and directed them to the company's other store at Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody.
Local Mediterranean eatery Bezoria Mideast Street Eats is returning to Alpharetta. Three years after closing its restaurant at The Atwater (2685 Old Milton Parkway) across from Avalon, Bezoria is opening a new restaurant at 3325 Old Milton Parkway, less than a mile away.
Starbucks is looking to open another Dunwoody Cafe, and this time, it's little more than a stone's throw from where it previously closed one. The new Starbucks is being proposed for an outparcel of Perimeter Square (132 Perimeter Center West) where currently there is just parking.
After several unexpected delays, the new downtown Alpharetta location of Hen Mother Cookhouse is almost ready to open. The new location at 50 S. Main Street replaced Holmes, which closed this past November after about five years in business. The owners of Hen Mother purchased the business from the owners of Holmes and as of last fall, planned to open this past spring.
Slim & Husky's Pizza announced Thursday that it will close its West Midtown location at 1016 Howell Mill Road on Sept. 22. WSBTV was first to report on the planned closure.
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Opa! Gus Tselios, the eccentric owner of the Marietta Diner and a host of other themed restaurants, has secured space for a second location of his popular Yeero Village restaurant. The new Yeero Village will be located in a converted former Arby's at 4865 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville.
Dirty Rascal in Buckhead has quietly closed. The Italian-American restaurant held court in the lobby level of the Thompson Atlanta - Buckhead, by Hyatt, 415 East Paces Ferry Road, in Buckhead Village. The restaurant opened shortly after the swanky hotel in January 2022.
According to several well-placed sources, Trader Joe's has joined the lineup of tenants opening at the upcoming Medley project in Johns Creek. Those who spoke to ToNeTo Atlanta did so on condition of anonymity, given the grocer's strict NDA (non-disclosure agreement) policy.
Desta Ethiopian Kitchen is on the move! The popular Ethiopian restaurant which has held court in Williamsburg Village shopping center (3086 Briarcliff Road) since 2006 is looking to move less than two miles away in the coming months.
A little more than two years after closing in Phipps Plaza, Lilly Pulitzer is returning to Buckhead, but rather than reopen in one of the area's major malls or Buckhead Village District, the preppy brand is instead setting up shop in a neighborhood shopping center.
Verde Taqueria is growing again with plans to open a new restaurant in Peachtree Hills. The new Verde is opening at 10 Kings Circle, not far from Peachtree Battle, where the taqueria will open in place of a space vacated in August by breakfast joint J. Christopher's.
ToNeTo Atlanta continues to be your number one source for updates on the Atlanta market entry of Raising Cane's and we are pleased to report that another Raising Cane's is in the works! A new Raising Cane's is planned for Kennesaw where it would replace a former retail store.
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A new QuikTrip (QT) is coming to Cobb Parkway. The new fuel center and convenience store is planned for the corner of Roswell Road and Cobb Parkway in the shadow of The Big Chicken. The new QT is being planned for a roughly two acre property created by combining two adjacent parcels.
Fledgling franchise Ponko Chicken has quietly closed yet another location as the once promising brand shrinks to just a handful of locations. The Ponko in Lenox Square in Buckhead, which opened about four years ago in September 2020, reportedly closed without warning a few weeks ago.
Toss'd Gourmet Salads & Slice Pizza Kitchen at Oglethorpe Crossing (3442 Ashford Dunwoody Road) in Brookhaven appears to have closed. The locally owned restaurant quietly debuted this past February in place of a Subway franchise that had been in the Publix-anchored center for several years.
Romano's Macaroni Grill has permanently closed its last remaining Atlanta area restaurant. Located at 3207 Buford Drive near the Mall of Georgia, the Italian restaurant seems to have quietly closed within the past few weeks. Local readers recall Romano's having opened alongside the Mall of Georgia's debut in 1999.
Struggling build-your-own pizza chain MOD Pizza has closed at least one more location in metro Atlanta. The Sandy Springs restaurant, located in The Plaza at City Springs (5840 Roswell Road) opened in January 2018 and closed in recent days, according to a source close to the project.
After 55 years of being a customer of The Colonnade, Lewis Jeffries is now the owner. A native Atlantan and longtime resident of nearby Pine Hills, Jeffries was the winner of what was reportedly a robust competition to become the next owner of The Colonnade.
One of the OG Atlanta area food trucks announced that it will close this coming November after ten years in business. Meatballerz, owned by the daughter and mother duo of Cara & Cathy Delalla made the announcement on their Facebook page.
If you thought metro Atlanta had enough choices for chicken...think again. A new franchise of Dave's Hot Chicken is coming soon to Buford. The new hot chicken joint is replacing a MOD Pizza franchise in a large mixed-use development that closed in July.
Super Chix, which opened their first Georgia restaurant at The Avenue Peachtree City in Peachtree City in March 2022 and made their metro Atlanta debut in February 2023 at Dunwoody Marketplace, will later this month open in East Cobb.
It seems Regal Cinemas Hollywood 24 will be the next cinema complex to cease operations in metro Atlanta. Located at 3265 NE Expressway and visible off I-85, the 24-theater complex opened May 19, 1999, with the debut of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.
