Been wondering what’s headed into the space at 625 Barber Street in the Atlas Building near Hidden Gem? T Silva, Katie Gasperec and Jon Andrews, who co-own Hi-Lo Lounge, plus Lauren Owens (Hi-Lo’s bar manager) are working on a small brewpub. Currently known as Nové Město (although Andrews says that could change), after an area and town in the Czech Republic, it’ll focus on Central European food (be still my heart!) and beer.
Hi-Lo’s menu used to have more of this type of thing, like a fried cheese sandwich (a big slab of cheese battered and fried, then tucked into some bread), but at the moment it doesn’t show up all that often. Andrews says there will be Czech, Polish, German and Austrian stuff on offer: pierogies, schnitzel, goulash, primarily lagers for beer, plus Austrian/German wines. He says that Owens and Silva will focus on cocktails, Gasperec on the kitchen. Andrew and Silva “will be in the brewhouse.” The goal is to be open by 2025, but they’re being reasonable about timelines and understand that things often move slowly.
bb.q Chicken, a franchise serving Korean fried chicken, is open on Newton Street, at the base of the student apartment building previously known as the William and recently rechristened the Maxxen.
A Touchdown Wings is coming to the Willowood Plaza shopping center at Lexington and Gaines School roads on the Eastside (the one with the Goodwill), and plans have been filed for a branch of Foxtail Coffee on Hancock Avenue downtown, in the fancy Hancock House luxury apartments, and a Panera Bread Co. at 101 N. Lumpkin Street, in the currently renovating Suntrust bank building.
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