Celebrity Chef G. Garvin has abruptly shuttered his Midtown restaurant LowCountry Steak after about five and half years in business. The "New Southern Cuisine" restaurant, located in the street level retail of the Tens on West (1010 West Peachtree Street) apartment community, was first announced in February 2020 and ultimately opened in January 2021.
The full-service restaurant reportedly served its last guests Sunday, June 28 with employees finding out Monday afternoon - reportedly via a group chat - that they were now out of a job.
ToNeTo Atlanta first got wind that the restaurant may be closing in early June when we received a notification that their roughly 4,500 square foot space was being marketed for lease as if it were already vacant with the flyer referring to it as an "available, second-generation restaurant" space.
Garvin, a friend and frequent collaborator of Guy Fieri, was featured alongside his restaurant in a March 2024 episode of Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives titled "Smokin' Southern Decadence."
An Atlanta-native, Garvin opened the first location of LowCountry Steak on Concourse A of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in April 2013. The airport location remains open and Garvin is reportedly planning to open a new oyster and seafood restaurant called Pearl & Oaks in the Bridges at Jodeco development in the Jonesboro/Stockbridge area in the months to come.
In addition to his restaurant endeavors, Garvin was in 2023 named "Chief Culinary Officer" for the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena.
Did you ever dine at LowCountry Steak in Midtown? What would you like to see open in place of LowCountry Steak in Midtown? What is your favorite Midtown restaurant?
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Diners, Drive-ins and Dives reran that episode last week and I was able to watch it. I’m willing to bet that high rent cost, along with high raw food costs are a major contributing factor to why the restaurant closed.
I was talking with the owner of a Chinese restaurant in Roswell today. She let me know that their rent for a small strip center store had increased to over $6,000/month and that when their lease expires early next year they will either close or move to a less expensive location if they can find one. The owner told me they just had to raise prices in order to try to keep up with ever increasing costs.
The opening of the pearl and oaks just shows what anybody with half a brain knows. Henry county is open for bidness. There is tons of money in Henry county and the residents are tired of having to go to Buckhead and midtown to spend it. Let us spend our money locally.
Here’s another interesting fact that shows how Henry is friendly to bidness. If the per capita income of residents in Henry county were to grow by 140k per year than Henry would have the highest per capita income in the country
Excellent reporting! You should work for the AJC!
I used to watch his cooking show on TVOne many many years ago and cooked a couple of his recipes. He's a gifted chef.
For beef-centric restaurants like this, I bet the cost of goods is killing them.
I don’t think there’s any argument that the cost of keeping restaurants open has skyrocketed. New restaurants, especially steakhouses, are highly competitive in Atlanta regardless of the titles the chef has been awarded. I think the point of this article was how the closure was handled. A group chat with less than a day’s notice?! I don’t care how successful you are, if you can’t communicate face to face, that says a lot about your character, confidence, and values!
If the per capita income grew by $140,000, then it may be the highest in the world.
It is ~$36,000 currently and the US average is about $41,000. Buckhead is ~$85,000 for reference.
I think you may be making a joke? I can’t tell.
Restaurants are being hit hard every where right now- high rents, taxes, insurance, other pass through costs, food cost, fuel, labor, credit card fees, utilities, etc.
It’s time to adapt! The model is broken- easier said than done and I don’t have the answer, but it’s time to start to look for one.
It’s serious. I believe he’s with the Henry county chamber of commerce.
Wait, So you guys knew a MONTH ago and did or did not report it? Because you can't blame the ownership for not telling anyone when the REPORTERS who knew didn't think mentioning it was necessary. #whack
Don’t open anymore. Close all of them. Eat at home.
What is bidness? The state of being in bidding for something? Confusing and weird…
They knew it would fail, they always know.
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