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La Mixteca Tamale House

1465 Chattahoochee Ave., Underwood Hills

A second Atlanta location of critically acclaimed La Mixteca Tamale House opened on Chattahoochee Avenue, taking over the former Cafe at Pharr space. Unlike the Piedmont Road location at ghost kitchen Buckhead Eats, the Chattahoochee Avenue location includes seating. The original of La Mixteca Tamale House opened in Suwannee in 2018 and serves a variety of tamales and Oaxacan dishes like tlayudas. 

Monday Night Brewing
670 Trabert Ave., Berkeley Park

Monday Night Brewing opened its new taproom called The Grove in August. Located less than a mile from the 14th Street and Howell Mill Road corridor, the broadened space, which sits directly on the Beltline, will provide room for 18 more taps and a counter-service restaurant offering a daily coffee service, pastries, sandwiches, and pizza. Monday Night Brewing’s original Westside taproom closed to the public and will begin hosting private events. 

Northern China Eatery
665 Auburn Ave., Old Fourth Ward

The Beltline location of Northern China Eatery opened this week in the Shoppes at Citizen building along the Eastside Trail. The original location of Northern China Eatery on Buford Highway has long been a popular spot for dumplings in Metro Atlanta. Owner Fan Zhang also opened The Dumpling Factory last summer at Westside Paper on West Marietta Street.

Necessary Purveyor
639 Glen Iris Dr., Old Fourth Ward

Miami-based gourmet market and cafe Necessary Purveyor opened on the ground floor of the Scout Living hotel on the Ponce City Market property. Starting at 7 a.m. daily, expect breakfast and lunch, along with happy hour, a raw bar with seafood towers, and dinner in the evenings. 

Side Quest
483 Edgewood Ave., Old Fourth Ward

Side Quest, a Viet-Lao food collaboration between bartender Nik Soukavong and Cynthia Hoang, launched in July above Pisces in the Old Fourth Ward. Operating Sunday and Monday evenings from 4-9 p.m., expect dishes like Vietnamese-spiced fried quail with a five-spice dipping sauce, cheesy crab toast, and conch poached in ginger sauce. Cocktails incorporate spirits like soju and cachaça and ingredients like mango, fermented melon, and pandan. Side Quest is walk-in only, but features a wait list system that contacts you when a table becomes available during busy service periods. Peek the menu here. 

Sweet Auburn Brunch
171 Auburn Ave., Sweet Auburn

Located at the Piedmont Pad Apartments complex, Sweet Auburn Brunch serves Southern-style dishes from morning until evening, including honey lobster deviled eggs, salmon BLT croissant sandwich, and catfish and grits. Cocktails, beer, and wine are also available.

Enso Izakaya
6 Olive St., Avondale Estates

Enso Izakaya, owned by Chef Leo You, opened at Olive & Pine in Avondale Estates. The restaurant serves Japanese noodle dishes, small plates, and yakitori cooked over binchotan charcoal. Check out the menu here. 

The Pool Turtle
3409 Covington Hwy, Avondale Estates

The pool hall, bar, and restaurant opened in August and features more than 20 pool tables, along with darts, cornhole, board games, and video games.

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Tipsy Thaiger
605 Atlanta St., Roswell

The Thai restaurant and bar opened in the former Public House space on Atlanta Street across from Roswell’s historic town square. Check out the dinner and cocktail menus here. 

Thai Candle Seafood & Bar
 7140 Avalon Blvd, Alpharetta

The new Thai restaurant at Avalon resides next door to the Hotel at Avalon and focuses on Northern Thai dishes.

Fusion & Grill By Biryani World
1705 Jones Bridge Road, Johns Creek

Expect curries, biryani, grilled entrees, and other South Asian and fusion cuisine here, along with a lunch buffet.

Imix Hot Pot
3350 Steve Reynolds Blvd, Duluth

In addition to Chinese-style hot pot, the menu at Imix also features stir-fries, dumplings, and noodle dishes.

VN Sandwich
821 Concord Road, Smyrna

This Vietnamese restaurant serves bánh mì, pho, wings, and boba and fruit teas.

More August openings:
• Pop-up Pepper’s Hotdogs opens permanent Downtown Atlanta location
• Chef Kevin Rathbun reopens Krog Bar as an intimate pizzeria in Buckhead
• Home Grown owners purchase building, securing Southern diner’s future
• French-Italian restaurant Elise debuts at the Woodruff Arts Center
• Captain B’s Fish Camp returns to Ticonderoga Club for a residency

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Coming Attractions

White Windmill 
562 Main St., Lindbergh City Center, Buckhead

The Uptown Atlanta location of Korean-French bakery-cafe White Windmill near the Lindbergh MARTA station will open on Sept. 6, joining other new restaurants at the transit-oriented complex, including Madre Selva, Bene Korean Steakhouse, El Gordo, and J’ouvert Caribbean Kitchen. 

Eclipse di Luna
661 Auburn Ave., Old Fourth Ward

Eclipse di Luna will open on Labor Day at SPX Alley, next door to Pour Taproom on the Eastside Beltline. The tapas restaurant and bar replaces Nina & Rafi, which closed in April. Unlike the three other locations of Eclipse di Luna in Metro Atlanta, the Beltline location is part of a partnership with Rreal Tacos owner Damian Otero. Read more here.

Azalea Fresh Market
25 Peachtree St., Downtown

The owners of Savi Provisions will open Azalea Fresh Market in downtown Atlanta on in early September. Located in the former Walgreens building across from Woodruff Park, the market also includes a kiosk location of Atlanta-based Dope Coffee.

More coming attractions:
• Veteran Atlanta bartender opening cocktail bar Buddy Buddy in Midtown
• The local pop-ups participating in food festival Smorgasburg Atlanta
• Owner of Whoopsie’s opening an all-day cafe in East Lake
 

k|n at Kinship Butchery and Sundry
1019 Virginia Ave., Virginia-Highland

Over in Virginia-Highland, Chef Myles Moody and sommelier Rachael Pack, the couple behind Kinship Butchery and Sundry, just launched a new four-seat, 12-course tasting menu experience called k|n (kin). Starting in September and only taking place on select weekends each month, the two-hour-plus dinner features 12 courses with wine or non-alcoholic beverage pairings for $325 per person. There’s a catch. Reservations via Resy are currently sold out through the end of 2025. But you can add yourself to the waiting list by setting a “Notify” alert on the reservation platform. 

Bellwood Coffee
568 Boulevard, Grant Park

The East Atlanta Village location of Bellwood Coffee will close at the end of the year ahead of its relocation to Grant Park. Bellwood will take over the former Bennett’s Market space at the corner of Boulevard and Rosalia Street in early 2026. The coffee shop also includes locations in Riverside and on Peachtree Street in southern Buckhead. A location of Bellwood Coffee will open inside the expanded Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur later this year. 

Mellow Mushroom
340 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur

After the franchise location of Mellow Mushroom closed earlier this summer in Decatur, the West Ponce pizzeria will reopen this fall and be company-owned and operated. In addition to a refreshed bar and patio and new to-go window, it appears the Decatur location will also feature some new dishes before Mellow Mushroom begins rolling those out nationwide. 

Chubby Cattle
400 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody

All-you-can-eat, Japanese-style yakiniku barbecue restaurant Chubby Cattle BBQ (pictured) will open its second Metro Atlanta location soon. Located on Ashford-Dunwoody Road near Perimeter Mall, expect Japanese A5 Wagyu and American and Australian Wagyu among the meat options for the tabletop grills, along with sushi and seafood selections. Chubby Cattle also includes a location in Duluth.

J. Alexander’s
Battery Atlanta, Cobb County

A location of wood-fired grill and seafood chain J. Alexander’s will open at the Battery Atlanta next Spring. 

More 2025 restaurant openings:
• JULY openings
• JUNE openings
• MAY openings 
• APRIL openings
• MARCH openings
• FEBRUARY openings
• JANUARY openings

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Restaurant Openings

After the franchise location of Mellow Mushroom closed earlier this summer in Decatur, the West Ponce pizzeria will reopen this fall and be company-owned and operated. In addition to a refreshed bar and patio and new to-go window, it appears the Decatur location will also feature some new dishes before Mellow Mushroom begins rolling those out nationwide. 

Pho Cue will return to the restaurant scene in Atlanta, taking over the kitchen at Smith’s Olde Bar in Piedmont Heights. Owned by Julian Wissman and Brian Holloway, Pho Cue started as a pop-up melding Vietnamese flavors with Texas-style barbecue (think smoked brisket and pork used in pho, egg rolls, banh mi, and dumplings). Pho Cue operated as a restaurant in Glenwood Park for two years before closing in 2024 and then picking up where the pop-up left off. 

A second Atlanta location of critically acclaimed La Mixteca Tamale House opened on Chattahoochee Avenue last week, taking over the former Cafe at Pharr space. Unlike the Piedmont Road location at ghost kitchen Buckhead Eats, the Chattahoochee Avenue location includes seating. The original of La Mixteca Tamale House opened in Suwannee in 2018 and serves a variety of tamales and Oaxacan dishes like tlayudas. 

Enso Izakaya, owned by Chef Leo You, is open at Olive & Pine in Avondale Estates. The restaurant serves Japanese noodle dishes, small plates, and yakitori cooked over binchotan charcoal. Check out the menu here. 

Miami-based gourmet market and cafe Necessary Purveyor opened yesterday on the ground floor of the Scout Living hotel on the Ponce City Market property. Starting at 7 a.m. daily, expect breakfast and lunch, along with happy hour, a raw bar with seafood towers, and dinner in the evenings. 

Restaurant Closures

Longtime Inman Park restaurant Julianna’s Coffee & Crepes permanently closed in July. A sign posted to the front door indicated the closure was due to failure to pay rent. A cozy spot for breakfast and lunch in the neighborhood, Julianna’s endured in Inman Park despite the area’s explosive development, numerous restaurant openings, and steep housing prices spurred on by the arrival of the Beltline over a decade ago. Julianna’s, located on the ground floor of a century-old house, was one block east of Krog Street Market and the Eastside Trail. 

Julianna’s owner, Andrew Turoczi, immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1980s, bringing an old family recipe for Hungarian-style crepes called palacsintas. The recipe paved the way for Turoczi to open Julianna’s in 2013, naming the restaurant after his late mother.

Nearby, vegan restaurant chain Planta, which replaced Watchman’s at Krog Street Market in 2023, also closed in July. 

News to Know

It appears Elise (pictured), the new French-Italian restaurant from Chef Craig Richards, is getting closer to its debut at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown. The digital sign at the corner of 15th and Peachtree on the campus recently displayed an “Opening Soon” ad for the restaurant, and teasers featuring the interior are popping up on Instagram. 

Elise is one of Rough Draft’s most anticipated restaurants of the year, so we’re watching this opening closely. The restaurant’s name, Elise, nods to Beethoven’s famous piano composition: “Für Elise.” Taking over the former Table 1280 space across from the High Museum on the Woodruff Arts Center campus, Elise will feature a menu melding French and Italian dishes, including the hand-made pastas for which Richards has become known at Lyla Lila.

Over in Virginia-Highland, Chef Myles Moody and sommelier Rachael Pack, the couple behind Kinship Butchery and Sundry, just launched a new four-seat, 12-course tasting menu experience called k|n (kin). Starting in September and only taking place on select weekends each month, the two-hour-plus dinner features 12 courses with wine or non-alcoholic beverage pairings for $325 per person. There’s a catch. Reservations via Resy are currently sold out through the end of 2025. But you can add yourself to the waiting list by setting a “Notify” alert on the reservation platform. 

Add to Your Calendar

Peachtree Road Farmers Market will host an ice cream social fundraiser on Saturday to benefit Rescued Crops to Feed Our Neighbors. Two tastings take place at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. inside Child Hall at The Cathedral of St. Philip on Peachtree. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for kids.

On Aug. 13, from 6-8 p.m., MODA (Museum of Design Atlanta) in Midtown will host Xocolatl Small Batch Chocolate owners Elaine Read and Matt Weynadt for a talk on the chocolate company’s beginnings, sustainability mission, and how design factors into the business. The event is part of MODA’s current exhibit Bittersweet: The Design of Chocolate. Tickets for the Xocolatl event are $10 for MODA members and $15 for non-members.

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