Fitness center to add pool, basketball and racquetball court. LA Fitness is moving forward with plans to renovate its Buckhead location. An employee at the fitness center, located at 3232 Peachtree Road NW, told What Now Atlanta earlier this year, the gym will get an updated look and new amenities to match future LA Fitness [...]
Scoop: Ben & Jerry’s closes in Virginia-Highland
Ice cream shop shutters after 15 years. Ben & Jerry’s has shuttered its Virgina-Highland location. The ice cream shop, at 800 N. Highland Avenue, had its last service on Oct. 31. A sign posted to the entrance of Ben & Jerry’s announced it would close. “After 15 wonderful years, Ben & Jerry’s Highland will be [...]
Blue Frog Cantina croaks
Mexican restaurant closes in East Atlanta. Blue Frog Cantina closed for good, after dinner service Sunday. The Mexican restaurant located on Flat Shoals Road in the East Atlanta Village, announced it would close in a Facebook post earlier this week, according to Creative Loafing. Blue Frog’s Facebook page has since been deleted. Creative Loafing reports [...]
MF Sushibar closes in Midtown
Sushi restaurant and sister concept, NAM, both swimming with the fishes. MF Sushibar has closed its Midtown location, according to Lisa Schoolcraft with the Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC). The sushi restaurant’s last day open was Wednesday, according to the report. Plans to close the restaurant located at 265 Ponce de Leon Avenue have been in [...]
Flying Biscuit to open its ninth Georgia location Monday
Non-stop breakfast restaurant in search of franchise partners for its newest location. The Flying Biscuit Café, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast all day, is opening its newest location in Brookhaven. Located in the Town Boulevard Shopping Center at Brookhaven, The Flying Biscuit Café will open on Monday, Nov. 14, according to a press release. [...]
Taco Buggy, Atlanta’s first Volkswagen Beetle foodtruck, coming soon
Serving tacos from a ‘lunchbox trailer,’ the un-foodtruck. The Taco Buggy, Atlanta’s first Volkswagen Beetle foodtruck, is coming soon. Part VW Beetle, part “lunchbox trailer,” the foodtruck will serve soft tacos with international flavor, according to Dean Gebert, The Taco Buggy co-owner. “The concept is unique, just like the vehicle,” Gebert told What Now Atlanta [...]
Chef Ford Fry spending $500,000 on new Westside eatery
JCT Kitchen owner files permit for ‘GA Fish Camp.’ UPDATE (Nov. 17, 2011): Ford Fry’s new Westside concept to be called The Optimist Rumors of what Chef Ford Fry will call his new Westside restaurant have been swimming around since What Now Atlanta broke the news in July. Early reports, including Atlanta Magazine’s, said Fry’s [...]
American Deli to open Metropolitan Parkway location
Deli franchise to open Downtown location. America Deli is opening a new location Downtown. The American-style quick serve restaurant is opening on Metropolitan Parkway in the same shopping center as Kroger. American Deli filed a permit with City of Atlanta last week to covert the space (formerly a bank) to the restaurant. The estimated cost [...]
Official confirmation: Watershed to reopen in Buckhead
Decatur restaurant leases space at The Brookwood Watershed restaurant is relocating to Buckhead as originally noted in several unconfirmed reports. Those reports claimed the Decatur restaurant of 13 years would specifically relocate to The Brookwood. Today, What Now Atlanta received official confirmation from an ST Residential (developer of The Brookwood) spokeswoman that Watershed recently signed [...]
Park’s Edge gets Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ makeover, then fails health inspection
Inman Park restaurant gets a 44/100 health score, shortly after celebrity chef visits. Did “world-renowned” chef Gordon Ramsay fix one Atlanta restaurant’s problems or create a whole new set of nightmares for it? In September, Park’s Edge restaurant participated in filming the fourth season of “Kitchen Nightmares,” only to fail its health inspection a few [...]
Corner Tavern, Market, Azio and more Fulton County restaurants that failed health inspections in October
Other failed inspections include Park’s Edge, Pacific Grill and Corner Bakery Cafe. What’s considered failing? Failing scores change from one health inspector to the next but the industry standard is that anything below a 70 (out of 100) is failing, according to April Majors, public information officer for the Fulton County Environmental Health Services Department. [...]
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