Blog Topic: Restaurant News

Grub Notes: Hankook Taqueria to Open Downtown and More Restaurant News

By Hillary Brown | August 31, 2016 9:52am

Photo Credit: Photo via Hankook Taqueria's Facebook page.

Atlanta's Hankook Taqueria—which has a location near Cross Creek on Atlanta's west side, a partnership with the Yumbii food truck and two sister restaurants (both called Takorea, one in midtown Atlanta and one in Buckhead)—will take over the former Etienne Brasserie space at Jackson and Broad in downtown Athens, opening in November. Owner Tomas Lee has a fairly serious pedigree, and his Korean-Mexican fusion has done well in Atlanta.

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Grub Notes: Brixx and the Broad Street Dairy Queen Are Closed

By Hillary Brown | August 22, 2016 10:53am

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file

Brixx

After a little more than two years, Brixx, the franchise pizza place at the base of the West Washington Street mixed-use parking deck downtown, has closed. Should you have a gift card, other locations will honor it, and there are two in Atlanta. The Athens location has been for sale for a while now, through the Shumacher Group in Atlanta.

The Broad Street Dairy Queen has also closed and will apparently not be renovated into one of those fancy new DQs.

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Grub Notes: Hungry Howie's Opens Today, Craft Public House Is Open and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | August 10, 2016 11:53am

Photo Credit: Hungry Howie's

The Hungry Howie

Pizza chain Hungry Howie's opens for business today on Baxter Street, right by the UGA dorms, with a ribbon-cutting by the Chamber of Commerce and large one-topping pies on sale for $7.99. Its owners, Tisha and Chad Cepuran, will also be making a donation to local 501(c)(3) Children First, Inc. Hungry Howie's will be open from 10 a.m.–2 a.m. Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–3 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.–1 a.m. Sunday.

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Grub Notes: $1 Custard at Freddy's Today, More Food Events Coming Up

By Hillary Brown | August 8, 2016 10:14am

Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers

Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, out in the Epps Bridge area next to McDonald's, is offering single-scoop cones and dishes of its vanilla and chocolate "custard" (i.e. ice cream) today. Half of that dollar will go to benefit either Kids in Need Foundation (which distributes school supplies to kids who need them) or Playworks (which provides full-time recess coaches to schools). You can vote for the charity you prefer by texting the word "kids" for Kids in Need or the word "recess" for Playworks to 72727.

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Grub Notes: The Pine Is Expanding, Baxter Is Getting More Pizza and More Restaurant News

By Hillary Brown | July 22, 2016 3:11pm

Photo Credit: Randy Schafer/file

The Pine.

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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Grub Notes: The Foundry Is Offering Tuesday Date Nights This Summer

By Hillary Brown | July 19, 2016 10:10am

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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Grub Notes: Fancy Cinnamon Rolls Coming to Downtown Athens

By Hillary Brown | July 18, 2016 10:37am

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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Grub Notes: Fast-Casual Stir-Fry Coming to Epps Bridge in August

By Hillary Brown | July 11, 2016 11:23am

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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Grub Notes: Craft Public House to Open This Month on Eastside

By Hillary Brown | July 8, 2016 9:32am

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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Grub Notes: Paul's Bar-B-Q in Lexington, Tin Drum in Athens Are Closed

By Hillary Brown | July 5, 2016 11:05pm

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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