Japanese restaurant ventures inside the perimeter to open third store. Ichiban Steak & Sushi, a Hibachi-style Japanese restaurant, is opening a metro Atlanta location. Ichiban late fall filed a permit with City of Atlanta to open a 1,852-square-foot location, at 1740 Cheshire Bridge Road. Its Cheshire Bridge location will be Ichiban’s third store and the [...]
Family Dollar spending $750K to build Cascade Road store
Dollar retail chain making sense of the recession. Another dollar retail chain is looking to cash in on Atlanta. Family Dollar Stores Inc., one of the nation’s largest chains of dollar retailers, is spending $750,000 to build its newest location from the ground up including demolition costs, according to several permits filed with City of [...]
Amuse! Closing?
Probably. But the Midtown French bistro hasn’t ‘finalized’ those plans yet. UPDATE (Dec. 9, 2011): Update: Midtown restaurant not ‘amused’ with our report of its possible closure Amuse! Restaurant Bar & Lounge is most likely going to close. After being tipped off by industry insiders, What Now Atlanta asked Haykel Arfaooui, general manager at the [...]
Ormsby’s, Hong Kong Harbor and other Fulton County restaurants that failed health inspections in November
Other failed inspections include Canton Chopsticks, Farmer’s Basket and Olympic Flame Restaurant. 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. [...]
Looks like Pine Street’s Scene Café might finally open
Restaurant and lounge sets its sights on completing construction, files necessary permits. Scene Café, which promises to be part restaurant, lounge, café and office, is more than a year past its scheduled opening. The restaurant and lounge located across the street from the Civic Center, at 150 Pine Street, was going to open its café [...]
Lenox Square Mall spending $633K to demolish its main entrance
Buckhead shopping center plans redesign to create ‘more street level retail exposure.’ Lenox Square Mall is demoing its “porte cochere,” according to a permit filed with City of Atlanta Friday. The porte cochere being demoed at Lenox is the “drive-under canopy at the main entrance of the property (shown right), a company spokesperson told What [...]
[Renderings] Philips Arena collaborating with Buckhead Life’s Pano Karatassos to open $2 million restaurant
Concert and events venue teams up with restaurant group’s president to open RED. Philips Arena, a concert and events venue, revealed plans Friday for a new $2 million restaurant. Called RED, the new restaurant will be open before, during and after Hawks games and other ticketed events beginning February 2012, according to a press release. [...]
Blue Moon Pizza opening Sandy Springs location Dec. 12
Pizzeria’s fourth Atlanta area location coming soon. Blue Moon Pizza Restaurant is opening its Sandy Springs location Dec. 12, according to a press release. The pizzeria, at 5610 Glenridge Drive, will be Blue Moon’s fourth location. It currently has locations in Buckhead, Marietta and Vinings, according to Blue Moon’s website. Blue Moon Pizza, which was [...]
Sprint to replace Viewpoint’s Clear Wireless Internet
Internet provider clears its Midtown space for cell phone company. Sprint is opening a Midtown location. The cell phone company will replace Clear Wireless Internet, in its Viewpoint space, according to Anthony Broussard, a contractor on location. “This time next week, the space will look like a Sprint store,” Broussard told What Now Atlanta on [...]
Leaked! Midtown’s STK to have ‘soft opening’ Dec. 15
Steakhouse to begin taking reservations Dec. 5. STK, the long-awaited glitzy Midtown steakhouse, is nearing its opening. Thursday night, the steakhouse held a celebrity filled grand opening preview at its unfinished space inside the Loews Hotel building at the 12th & Midtown development. What Now Atlanta ran into Devon Mosley, national director of marketing for [...]
Creative Loafing names What Now Atlanta favorite blog to follow on Twitter
Other Twitter favorites include ‘Mayor of Ponce,’ Big Boi and Lance Gummere. Creative Loafing (CL) released its Twitter issue yesterday. The newspaper questions whether or not “Twitter-friendly Atlanta” is actually one of America’s most wired cities, it its cover story. In other related Twitter headlines from Thursday’s issue, CL staffers picked What Now Atlanta as [...]
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