A mainstay in The Shops Around Lenox (3400 Around Lenox Road) for more than two decades, Dantanna's will on December 6 close its Buckhead restaurant.
Employees at the restaurant started to inform customers of the impending closure in recent days.
Before Dantanna's opened in 2003, the space had been home to a Bennigan's restaurant.
The restaurant famously faced a legal fight with the similarly named Dan Tana's, an Italian trattoria based in Hollywood, California, in 2008. Despite being in business decades before the Atlanta eatery, it was not until 2005 that the California restaurant tried to register the restaurant’s name with the Patent and Trademark Office. Tana's application was denied because the name had already been claimed by Dantanna’s. A more than two year legal battle ensued, after which a federal appeals court judge in Atlanta upheld an earlier decision allowing Dantanna’s to keep its name.
After its Buckhead debut, the Atlanta-based eatery later opened locations at CNN Center (now The Center) in a former Jocks & Jills in Downtown Atlanta (2009) and in Abernathy Square in a former Applebee's in Sandy Springs (2014). The Sandy Springs restaurant closed in January 2018 followed by the Downtown location in June 2020.
Dantanna's has been one of the longest running, continuously operating tenants in the Buckhead center, outlasting others including CompUSA, American Apparel, Blue Genes, Bally Total Fitness, Tower Records, Hashiguchi Jr, Bhojanic, and Y-3, among others.
That said, spaces in the center do not stay vacant for long. Gorjana recently opened in a space previously home to Kendra Scott, while Faherty previously opened in place of Draper James and Born Baby opened in place of etu home. Madewell left Lenox Square to take the former South Moon Under and Johnny Was left Phipps Plaza to backfill the former The Impeccable Pig.
Remaining eateries in the center currently include Flower Child and Seven Lamps.
Were you a fan of Dantanna's? What would you like to see open in place of Dantanna's in Buckhead? What is your favorite restaurant in Buckhead?
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6 comments:
That’s too bad. I always liked the place the few times I’d eaten there.
Lenox is such a disaster. Only a matter of time until the hotels start "rebranding."
Yes, I have been waiting for over 25 years to see all of them rebrand, but they just keep staying open and keeping the same names like Westin, Hyatt and JW Marriott. But I bet any day now they’ll become Days Inn and Motel 6!
Where was the Bally's located? (I do not recall the space) - I do remember Bally's at Lindbergh Plaza!
Do they have any other locations aside from Buckhead? Are they moving to a new location or just shutting down?
Flower Child has been such a great addition to that area and has brought in a great crowd. A British Pub is something Atlanta doesn’t really have (unless you count Irish bars like Fado’s)
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