Courtesy of Third & City
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The newest in a collection of recent Westside developments—the Interlock, Star Metals, the Works—Westside Paper (950 West Marietta Avenue) introduced its first 4 restaurant tenants: Boxcar Betty’s, Glide Pizza, Lady Diver, and Pancake Social. Situated throughout from the King Plow Arts Heart and adjoining to Puritan Mill, Westside Paper encompasses 15 acres with a deal with a Nineteen Fifties warehouse. Developed by Third & City and FCP, Westside Paper is a 245,000-square-foot mixed-use challenge. Right here’s what you’ll be able to anticipate:
Opening in early summer season 2022, Boxcar Betty’s is an off-the-cuff hen sandwich restaurant with areas in Charleston, Charlotte, and Chicago. At 2,000 sq. ft, the primary Atlanta location will provide counter service with about 14 seats inside and 16 on the patio.
The menu is easy: hen sandwiches, tenders, a burger, salad, and sides. All the things is produced from scratch utilizing native elements when potential. The hen is antibiotic-, hormone-, and cage-free and brined in a particular mix of sugar, salt, and spices for depth of taste.
“Our menu may be very easy and simple. We attempt to do one factor and do it rather well,” cofounder Roth Scott says.
The signature sandwich comes with pimento cheese, peach slaw, pickles, and spicy mayo atop fried or grilled hen or a pimento-stuffed portobello mushroom. The “Hen Not So Waffle” options bacon jam, maple syrup, pimento cheese, and tomato. Sides embody fried pickles, fried pickled inexperienced tomatoes, and candy potato fries.
Regardless of the title, Boxcar Betty’s shouldn’t be positioned in a transformed boxcar.
“The unique plan was to place it in an space with loads of trains, however that fell via, and we simply preferred the alliteration,” Scott explains.
The Westside Paper location, will nonetheless, replicate that spirit via using reclaimed wooden and industrial-style fixtures.
Launched in Irwin Avenue Market simply off the BeltLine’s Eastside Path, Glide Pizza presents New York-style slices and pies to-go. Opening in summer season 2022, the brand new location at Westside Paper will “nonetheless be very to-go-centric,” founder Rob Birdsong says. It can have counter service, roughly eight barstools, and a few type of takeout window, the small print of which have but to be decided.
“There are loads of places of work close by. I perceive the necessity for individuals to have accessible meals and scurry again to their desks,” Birdsong says.
Although the menu will probably be much like Glide’s present choices, Birdsong says he hopes so as to add some new pizza toppings and start providing salad. Glide Westside may even serve beer and wine—one thing not obtainable at Irwin Avenue.
The brand new location may even enable Glide to broaden its supply program, operated by bicycles.
“That is actually necessary to us. We’re all the time on the lookout for thrilling neighborhoods, and we see [the Westside] as a chance to develop that a part of our enterprise,” Birdsong says. “Our pizza holds up rather well at house. It’s a superb journey pizza.”
Glide will open a further location inside Internal Voice Brewing in Decatur in early 2022.
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Restaurateur and chef Richard Tang is opening the second location of his Vietnamese restaurant Lady Diver in mid-summer or late fall. Almost 1,000 sq. ft bigger than the Reynoldstown spot, Lady Diver Westside may have two patios and a second-floor veranda.
The meals and drinks will probably be much like that of the unique—crispy Brussels, fried beef dumplings, pad prik king, shaking beef—however the design and decor will probably be completely different.
“I’m tremendous happy with Lady Diver. It’s not your conventional Vietnamese pho home. It’s greater than that,” Tang says. “I grew up with loads of this meals—it’s my mother’s recipes.”
On the second ground, the brand new restaurant will characteristic a personal occasions area with a bar.
“[The neighborhood] is completely different. The persons are completely different. The setting is completely different. My final properties have been smaller and slightly extra boutique-y,” Tang says.
Anne Quatrano (Bacchanalia), Tony Riffel (previously of Octane Espresso), Dan Jacobson (previously of Chick-fil-A), and Steven Chan (Tin Drum Asian Kitchen) opened Pancake Social at Ponce Metropolis Market in 2019. This all-day breakfast spot serves eggs, waffles, and lunch sandwiches, along with pancakes. Come June 2022, Jacobson, Riffel, and Chan—word the lack of Quatrano, who’s specializing in her different eating places—will open a second, barely smaller location on the entrance of Westside Paper.
“We love the Westside,” Jacobson says. “It’s all the time been on our radar via Tony and the unique Octane and all the event that’s occurring there. Anne has been very profitable on the Westside, too.”
The menu at Westside Paper will probably be similar to that at Ponce Metropolis Market, with the addition of extra wholesome bowls and lunch gadgets. There may even be further beverage choices, together with iced and shaken espresso drinks, similar to macchiato, plus mocktails and juices. Brunch cocktails like mimosas and Bloody Marys will stay the identical.
“We wish to enhance the espresso expertise. We’ve all the time had the dream of being a restaurant coffeehouse,” Jacobson says. “So, we’re making the entrance a part of the restaurant really feel like a standalone—a model inside the model.”
The coffeehouse space may have a counter the place prospects can order pastries and drinks to-go or to be loved on the stools and tall tables. Additional in, the eating room will appear to be that at Ponce Metropolis Market with area for 50. Glass storage home windows could be rolled up throughout good climate to open up the area to the patio.
As for the rumored Pancake Social at Pinewood Forest? Jacobson says the timing wasn’t good, however he’s nonetheless taking a look at different areas round Atlanta.
