New American restaurant 5Church is slated to open in midtown's Colony Square in early summer. The two-floor restaurant, which has rooftop dining, will offer a variety of steak, pork, chicken, and seafood dishes, and offer craft cocktails and a 200-bottle wine list. The 6,000-square-foot main dining area seats 185, and an additional 6,000-square-foot private event space can hold as many as 200.
Atlanta's second Barcelona Wine Bar location opened at Westside Ironworks in April. Specializing in tapas, charcuterie, paella, and Spanish wines, the venue has a 3,880-square-foot interior with a main dining room that seats 167 and a private dining room that seats 60. The venue's 2,382-squre-foot patio, which boasts a fireplace, can hold 86 for a reception.
New American restaurant and wine bar Aria recently underwent a redesign and reopened in May. Overseen by Stacey Kirby of Seiber Design, the renovation included leather banquettes, backlit mirrors, white oak tabletops in the main dining area, and a white marble bar top. The 3,000-square-foot space seats 14 at the bar, 30 in the upper dining area, and 70 in the main dining area. The space is available for buyouts for private dinners or cocktail receptions of as many as 70 guests.
AC Hotel Atlanta Buckhead at Phipps Plaza from Marriott is slated to open in July. Within walking distance to Lenox Square, the European-inspired hotel has 166 rooms and dining options that include a tapas lounge. For meetings and events, the hotel has a 242-square-foot room that seats eight onference-style, and two 508-square-foot rooms that each seat 63 theater-style; those rooms can be combined to seat 126.
James Beard Award-winning chef Linton Hopkins opened his latest venture, Linton's, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in April. Part of the garden's $200 million renovation, the restaurant was designed by local architecture firm Perkins and Will and features garden greenery mixed with light and dark woods. The 10,138-square-foot space seats 240 and is available for private events.
Japanese gastropub Brush Sushi Izakaya opened in Decatur in April. Helmed by chef Jason Liang, the restaurant offers sushi with ingredients sourced locally and from Tsukiji Market in Tokyo. The menu also serves dishes made with locally sourced chicken and pork, and Wagyu beef from Japan. The 2,500-square-foot space seats 80 or accommodates 90 for reception-style events.
Top Chef alumnus Kevin Gillespie's outdoor beer garden Communion opened in April. Located in the backyard of Gillespie's Southern restaurant Revival, the space offers picnic tables and lawn chairs for seating, German-inspired eats from a food truck, and an array of European draft and bottled beers, batched cocktails, wines, and punches. Guests can buy drinks and food with tokens purchased in advance. The 3,500-square-foot space accommodates 125 reception-style, and is available for private parties six days a week through October.
Firebirds Wood Fired Grill opened its first Atlanta-area location in May at the Atwater development in Alpharetta. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based steakhouse chain specializes in steak and fish entrees, which are grilled using regionally sourced woods. The 6,600-square-foot restaurant seats 225 and offers a group dining menu.
With locations in North Carolina and Orlando, burger-sushi fusion restaurant The Cowfish opened its first Atlanta spot at the Perimeter Mall in April. Boasting red walls, natural wood tables, and a patio, the restaurant is known for its Instagram-worthy "burgushi" entrees; sushi rolls made with burger components and burgers made with sushi ingredients. The 8,000-square-foot venue seats 275.
Atwoods Pizza Café opened on the first floor of the Biltmore in April. The 56-seat restaurant offers cooked-to-order thin-crust pizzas made in a Pavesi oven, and also offers craft beer and coffee and espresso drinks from a coffee bar. The interior boasts exposed brick walls, brushed steel, and rustic wood features, with artwork that includes graphic column wraps and wall stencils designed by local artist Brian Holt.
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