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?
Please share your thoughts below.
25 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!
So sad. If they could’ve only held on a couple of months I think things would’ve turned around. Once the big beautiful bill kicks in and president trump gives everyone a 2k dividend tge consumer economy will take off like no one’s ever seen. Gas is already under 2 per gallon so the economy is on the right track and prices are coming down.
Do they have any other locations aside from Buckhead? Are they moving to a new location or just shutting down?
The Trump recession kills another business
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)
Under what was Tower Records
Bally's was sort of subterranean, underneath what was later Tower Records. I remember there being a Bally's at Lindbergh, but I don't remember where that space was.
you are delusional
Already happened to the Ritz-Carlton, W, Mandarin Oriental and Klimpton.
Ah yes, I do remember now.
The Marriott is now a Wyndham
Irony is that the Colee (old W) was actually once a Days Inn
Don't forget that butter is $10 a pound, and a can of Coca-Cola at .83 cents a can. Yeah, the economy is certainly on the right track,
I’ll just remortgage my house for 50 years and use the extra $18.79 a month on butter and cokes!
"Dantanna's Going Dark . . ."
True, but Buckhead and Lenox went "Dark" first.
Turn them all into Travelodge! The last time I was at the Westin my room had a slimy dildo in the night stand drawer and cig butts behind the curtains in the window sill.
He shoots, he scores!!!!
Nailed it!
Love you morons who keep predicting the death of Lenox (and Phipps). "I haven't been there in YEARS, and I tell all my friends not to go there!" Good. No one wants you there, and you probably shouldn't be spending your limited income anyway. Stay home and complain to your family, since they're slightly less likely to run away from you or look at you in disgust. And don't forget to blame everything you don't like on the President, cause that's an effective strategy. In the meantime, the malls are crowded and people are doing their Christmas shopping.
I worked at Saks until last year, and I have but one question for you all. Why would someone take Marta to Buckhead from the projects, buy a $2,000 Gucci handbag with all cash, and take the bus back to the projects carrying the Gucci handbag inside a Kroger grocery bag? Anyone….anyone…..?????
They wouldn’t.
If you felt that way you should have relinquished your commission on the sale. But you gladly kept it.
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