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Off-price retailer Burlington has won the lease assignments of several JOANN Fabric & Crafts stores, including two in Georgia. The craft store, which filed bankruptcy in January, reportedly shuttered 112 locations April 28 with the remaining portion of the once nearly 900 unit chain slated to close by the end of May.
About fifteen months after its Buckhead opening, trendy plant-based restaurant PLANTA Queen has closed. The restaurant, located in Buckhead Village District (3013 Bolling Way), debuted December 26, 2023, but was listed for sale early this past December after less than a year in operation.
It's been nearly eight years since we first reported on TJX Company's then new concept store, Homesense. This past May, we reported that they were finally entering the Georgia market, and now that first store is about to open!
A new bagel shop will soon rise from the remains of another. Yaba's Bagels plans to open later this June in Ashford Place (4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road) in place of 101 Bagel Cafe which closed last July in the roughly 1,800 square foot space.
After hitting the market last year, trendy pizza shop Nina+Rafi has been sold. The upscale restaurant, located in SPX Alley (661 Auburn Avenue, Suite 220), first opened in November 2018. Owners Anthony Spina and Billy Streck named the restaurant after their grandmothers Nina and Rafi, respectively.
After several unexplained delays, Layne's Chicken Fingers is reportedly opening their debut Atlanta area location in Roswell. The new eatery, announced this past July, was at the time expected to open in late October or early November before later being pushed to December.
A new spot for sweet treats is coming to Reynoldstown. Planning materials confirm that a new Kilwins franchise is coming to the Publix-anchored Madison Yards shopping center where it will occupy a 1,000 square foot space along Bill Kennedy Way.
Another day, another Arby's closure in metro Atlanta. This time, it's the Arby's at 5160 Windward Parkway in Milton. ToNeTo Atlanta readers suggest that the restaurant closed quietly earlier this week without advance warning to patrons.
Not only is the Braves lineup changing as the team returns to Atlanta, but the newly launched "Outfield Market" food hall is, too. NFA Burger, the popular Dunwoody area eatery that opened alongside seven other "stalls," has closed.
One of the many restaurant vacancies along Howell Mill Road is getting a new tenant. Big Bad Breakfast (BBB), a chain growing across the southeast, is coming to town with its first location in Georgia!
R. Thomas Deluxe Grill, an Atlanta staple for four decades, is for sale. The restaurant, known for its healthy fare, fresh-squeezed juices, and tropical birds, first opened in 1985 and was once open 24 hours a day.
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| R. Thomas Deluxe Grill - Official |
The Roswell outpost of Taqueria Tsunami Latin-Asian Kitchen is on the move. Roswell planning documents suggest and an employee at the restaurant confirms that the locally owned eatery is looking to move about three miles away later this summer.
NaanStop confirmed Wednesday that it has closed its Buckhead restaurant after a decade in business. The quick-serve Indian eatery was located at 3420 Piedmont Road, beside Chipotle and above Scoville Hot Chicken.
Planning documents confirm that Dutch Bros Coffee is looking to add to its metro Atlanta pipeline with a new location planned for Roswell. The .46 acre site, 705 Holcomb Bridge Road, was for nearly 50 years home to a Captain D's restaurant before the seafood restaurant's closure this past November.
There, a bar and eatery in Brookhaven, announced April 3 that they closed their longstanding restaurant after 14 years in business. The restaurant, located in the street level of the Windsor at Brookhaven apartment building (305 Brookhaven Avenue), occupied a 2,200 square foot space.
Mamoun's Falafel has quietly closed its lone Atlanta area location in West Midtown. The restaurant, in an endcap outparcel of West Midtown Center (1269 Northside Drive), opened January 25, 2020, and closed in recent weeks, according to sources in the area.
As the brand continues to narrow its focus, Snooze an A.M. Eatery will soon close its restaurant along Roswell Road in Chastain Park. The restaurant, situated in a freestanding building at 4600 Roswell Road, was the brand's first location in Atlanta and opened February 17, 2021.
A few weeks ago we received word that Slutty Vegan had closed its short-lived location in Harlem. We attempted to reach out to the restaurant to no avail. They suggest that one text them via their website but seem not to be monitoring the provided number. More closures followed, and then on Tuesday came a story in People that indicated the business had gone through a "restructuring" in February.
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| Shuttered Slutty Vegan on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth |
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, which ended 2024 with about 3,100 locations, is at it again with several more locations planned for Georgia. The Peach State is already home to about 270 restaurants, but we are tracking at least three additional locations slated to open in the coming months.
A longtime Einstein Bros. Bagels will soon close. The Einstein Bros. at 2240 North Druid Hills Road is slated to close Saturday April 5 after more than twenty years in business. There was no reason provided for the closure, but the constant roadwork likely hurt their business, as did the reworked entrance due to the new Children's Health Care of Atlanta campus.
Finally! In-N-Out will make its Atlanta debut with a location planned for Buckhead. Sources close to the project tell ToNeTo Atlanta that a new In-N-Out will open at 2929 Peachtree Road in Buckhead. The new In-N-Out will replace a longstanding McDonald's.
Cobb County property records confirm that the former Sears at Town Center at Cobb (400 Ernest W. Barrett Parkway) has been sold. The two-level store measures about 171,000 square feet across two levels and sits on about thirteen acres. Sears occupied the space from February 1986 until its closure in August 2020.
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