Foxtail Coffee Co., a Florida-based chain, has opened on West Hancock Avenue in the bottom of the Hancock House apartment building. In addition to serving a traditional coffee shop fare, Foxtail’s menu includes beer, wine and 10 flavors of gelato.
After a long time being “temporarily closed,” Ponko Chicken on Baxter Street closed for real (is it possible that the only chicken fingers that can succeed within a stone’s throw of UGA’s high-rise dorms are those made at Raising Cane’s?). The space now houses Three Buddies, a fast-casual halal concept that opened recently and does burgers, Philly cheese steaks, tacos, a tikka paneer sandwich, wings, nachos, corn ribs, fried pickles, pasta, deli sandwiches, ice cream, kids meals and, of course, chicken fingers. The restaurant has another location in Chamblee.
The space that was most recently Philanthropy Fresh, on Broad Street downtown, is due to become Tres Amigos, yet another Mexican restaurant. It has another location in Barnesville, if you’re looking for a sneak preview of the menu (it doesn’t seem to promise anything unusual).
The former Pizza Factory on Alps Road in the North Alps Square strip is set to become a Wingstop, not to be confused with the former Red Lobster becoming a Buffalo Wild Wing not far away. And the former Alps service station at Alps and Baxter is renovating into a location of Smalls Sliders, a franchise with a concept similar to Baddie’s (small smashburgers, fries, not a ton else on the menu). In the same area, Gusto! has closed.
Swirlee’s, an ice cream shop with its original location in Jackson County, has replaced Lil’ Ice Cream Dude’s Cool World in the Ansonborough mixed-use development on the Eastside, serving Hershey’s ice cream, milkshakes, sundaes, splits, “ice cream nachos,” ices and so on.
Stoner’s Pizza Joint, a franchise focused on 420 jokes and that keeps late-night hours, is open in the former Munch Hut on Broad Street downtown, just down from College Avenue. It offers garlic knots, wings and beer as well as pizza and is open until 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 a.m. all other days.
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