Baraonda Ristorante, a locally owned, full-service Italian restaurant, has closed after nearly 25 years in business. The restaurant first opened at 710 Peachtree Street in Midtown near the Fox Theater in 2000 before closing in 2021 and then reopening in 2023 at 6075 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs.
The restaurant closed permanently as of Tuesday, August 25, with signs posted to the doors confirming the closure and thanking patrons for their years of support. No reason for the closure was provided.
Related: Rumble Boxing recently closed at The Adley and its roughly 2,700 square foot space is available for lease.
The Baraonda in Sandy Springs measured about 3,800 square feet and like the former Midtown outpost, featured a spacious patio but overall was smaller and cozier than the nearly 7,000 square foot Midtown restaurant. Additionally, while the Midtown restaurant was located in the street level portion of the Crest on Peachtree apartment community, Baraonda Sandy Springs was also located on the bottom of an apartment building (Adley City Springs), but unlike Midtown, was not walking distance to The Fox.
Baraonda was owned by Costanzo Astarita and Mario Maccarrone, who are also partners in Publik Draft House on Peachtree Street in Midtown (2009), with Astarita having separately opened É Ke Pizza on New Paces Ferry Road in Vinings (2022).
The former Midtown Baraonda was subsequently occupied by "V Restaurant & Lounge" and later 'Belly Restaurant & Lounge," but is currently vacant and available for lease, according to online materials.
As for the Sandy Springs restaurant, a ToNeTo Atlanta reader tells us it could reopen as a new Korean BBQ spot, making it at least the third such business within a mile or so of the area. The Baraonda space is believed to be the "Sandy Springs Full Service Restaurant & Bar" currently listed as "Under Contract" by the Shumacher Group.
Are you surprised to see Baraonda close in Sandy Springs? What do you think of the prospect of it being replaced by another Korean barbecue eatery? What kind of restaurant do you think is most needed in Sandy Springs?
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3 comments:
This place was so good. I hate to see it go.
They should have sold the space over their sign for video ads. That seems to be the money maker.
Loved the original midtown spot, great pizza. I don't know what happened afterwards.
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