Grub Notes
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The Pine Is Expanding, Baxter Is Getting More Pizza and More Restaurant News
The Pine, in Five Points, is adding a downstairs bar called The Root, which will open in August. Co-owner Scott Parrish said it will be open seven days a week, until midnight Sunday–Wednesday and until 1 a.m. Thursday–Saturday. Unlike the upstairs, it won't serve food, but it will have "a tap and can list, a handful of wines and craft cocktails and a sizable whiskey selection," said Parrish.
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MillerCoors Buys Majority Stake in Terrapin
Are Terrapin commercials coming soon to a Super Bowl near you?
Beer giant MillerCoors is buying a majority stake in the Athens brewery, the companies announced today. Terms were not disclosed.
Terrapin will become a unit of MillerCoors’ craft and import beer division, Tenth and Blake, the owner of brands like Blue Moon, Leinenkugel, St. Archer and Pilsner Urquell.
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The Foundry Is Offering Tuesday Date Nights This Summer
Photo Credit: Photo via The Foundry
Every Tuesday this summer, The Foundry (previously known as The Melting Point, which you probably still call it if you are an Athenian of long standing, habituated to referring to places by their previous names) is offering a pretty good deal for a date night.
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Fancy Cinnamon Rolls Coming to Downtown Athens
Shannon Radke co-founded Cinnaholic in Berkeley, CA with her husband, Florian.
Further fleshing out the ground floor of the Georgia Heights building at Broad and Hull streets downtown, a location of the small franchise Cinnaholic will be opening soon. Promising 100 percent vegan gourmet cinnamon rolls, customizable with a wide variety of toppings, it seems like the counterpart to Zombie Donuts, on the other side of College, pumping out the scent of sugar into the already complex bouquet of downtown's fragrance.
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Creature Comforts Releases 'Southern Lager' Mutualism
Creature Comforts is releasing a “Southern-style farmhouse lager” called Mutalism, a collaboration with Austin, TX-based Jester King Brewery.
The limited-edition beer is available in 750-milliliter bottles at the brewery only starting today.
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Fast-Casual Stir-Fry Coming to Epps Bridge in August
Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook
After a brief period as a near food-desert, the new Epps Bridge shopping wonderland has been adding eating options aplenty. Just to the left of Groove Burgers, Wok's Up will open in August and is currently hiring for all positions.
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Craft Public House to Open This Month on Eastside
If you've been stuck at the light at Gaines School and Cedar Shoals, you may have noticed a sign that popped up in the old Charlie Nobles space in the Ansonborough development. Craft Public House plans to open there later this month, the project of chef/owner Brandon Kelly and owner/GM Rob Longstreet. Craft is a gastropub, which is certainly something new for the Eastside.
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Paul's Bar-B-Q in Lexington, Tin Drum in Athens Are Closed
Photo Credit: Marie, Let's Eat
The only appropriate reaction to the news that Paul's Bar-B-Q, in Lexington, served its last meal this Fourth of July is, "Aw, dang."
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