Blog Topic: Food Roundup

Grub Notes: Ok Café Open Downtown, Cook-Out on Epps Bridge, Old Pal in Normaltown

By Hillary Brown | September 30, 2013 12:43pm

Ok Cafe

There's something new in the tiny building attached to the side of Wuxtry that previously housed a branch of Ike & Jane. Ben Goodwin (ex-Helix) opened Ok Café there today (not to be confused with OK Coffee, which once occupied the space), with sammiches, croissants (from The Comerian), coffee and nice sodas (Blenheim Ginger Ale, Coke with real sugar).

At the moment, he's open 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, but late-night hours Thursday through Saturday are soon to come. Could this get confusing, with A-OK Cafe less than a full block away? No doubt. The new place takes credit cards as well as cash.

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Grub Notes: Donderos' Grand Opening, Other Food Events Around Town

By Hillary Brown | September 27, 2013 10:37am

Donderos' Kitchen

The new location of Donderos' Kitchen has been open to the public in a soft way for a little while now, but its official grand opening is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3:30 p.m., with members of the Packway Handle Band supplying music.

The grocery has a new phone number (706-354-8688) and new hours (Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Sunday), plus some new additions. More info after the jump.

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Grub Notes: Juice Up Coming Downtown, One Café in Old Hendershot's

By Hillary Brown | September 24, 2013 4:32pm

The space that is probably still most fondly remembered as 283 Bar and that has been a series of bars since is about to focus on healthy living instead of debauchery.

Juice Up: The Original Juice Cafe looks to open at 283 Broad St. fairly soon. Juice is the next fro-yo, and Juice Up aims to offer smoothies as well for those looking to consume their nutrition in liquid form.

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Grub Notes: Grindhouse is Open, Big City Bread's Winterville Venture

By Hillary Brown | September 12, 2013 2:57pm

After a bit of stop-and-start in construction, Atlanta's Grindhouse Killer Burgers will open on Lumpkin Street tomorrow (Friday the 13th—no coincidence).

The small chain, owned by a perfectionist who spent crazy amounts of time finding exactly the right buns to serve when he opened his original location in the Sweet Auburn Curb Market, focuses on simplicity rather than excess, with burgers that are manageable, not huge, and made with care.

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Grub Notes: Echo Opens Today, Fat & Happy Open Already

By Hillary Brown | September 3, 2013 10:39am

Echo

Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook

Broad Street Coffee, now known as Echo, didn't stay closed for long. The vegan restaurant is opening up in its new location, the former home of Farm 255 on W. Washington Street downtown, at 11 a.m. today. (Complete with doggie decor, per the restaurant's Facebook page.)

Fat & Happy BBQ, next door to Jimbo's at 699 Baxter and owned by Mark Day and Quinn Postero, is also open.

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Grub Notes: home.made No Longer Dine-in at Lunch, Streets Serving on Boulevard

By Hillary Brown | August 27, 2013 10:35am

Photo Credit: Facebook

home.made

After a few short weeks doing its new eat-in lunch program, home.made catering is having to scale back and go to pick-up and delivery only (through Bulldawg Food).

It's not that Mimi Maumus's food wasn't successful. Instead, it may have been too much so. Her neighbors weren't happy with the influx of vehicles seeking to park during the lunch hour, despite the fact that Baxter Street is in many ways a ghost town and could really use a boost. You'll just have to lay out your own tablecloth and bud vase and pretend.

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Grub Notes: Independent Baking Co. Is Open, White Tiger Ends Brunch Buffet and More

By Hillary Brown | August 21, 2013 10:34am

White Tiger is changing up its brunch a little, switching this weekend from a buffet to an a la carte service. The hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays, with lots of vegetarian and vegan options, plus BBQ Benedict (biscuit, bbq pork, sausage gravy, over-easy egg). The full menu is available after noon those days.

Thom Leonard's Independent Baking Co. opened for business for real at 7 a.m. today. They've got bread, pastries, muffins (supposedly) and 1000 Faces Coffee.

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Grub Notes: Downtown Subway is Moving, home.made Lunch and More

By Hillary Brown | August 12, 2013 4:11pm

If you just love the heck out of Subway but find its location on West Broad Street in the Gameday condos too far to walk, you'll be pleased to know it's moving into the space vacated by fro-yo hotspot Yoguri at the corner of Clayton and College sometime in September.

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Grub Notes: Hendershot's Starts Real Food, Groucho's is Open

By Hillary Brown | August 9, 2013 10:48am

One of the things that made the move of Hendershot's a net positive was the coffee shop/bar's acquisition of a real kitchen. A food menu was in place before, but it was limited. Now Ivey Hughes can stretch out and expand. That new menu starts today, with lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Grub Notes: Normaltown Cafe Reopens in Danielsville, Hugh Acheson Hooks Up with Live Nation

By Hillary Brown | July 29, 2013 4:57pm

Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood

Once upon a time, before Normaltown had cute hipster printing shops and doughnuts and there wasn't a big hole in the air where Allen's once was, there was a modest restaurant there called Normaltown Cafe. Then it operated on Tallassee for a while, in the space that's now Sr. Sol. Old Athens folks will appreciate that it is reopening, although this time in Danielsville, at 200 General Daniels Rd., near the Hardee's.

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