Month: August 2018

East Cobb Restaurant Scores: Taqueria Tsunami, Kale Me Crazy, Sage Woodfire Tavern, Cuban Diner & more

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Sage Woodfire Tavern, East Cobb restaurant scores

The following East Cobb restaurant scores from July 5-Aug. 3 have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link below each listing to view details of the inspection.

Arby’s East Lake 
2161 Roswell Road
August 1, 2018 Score: 96, Grade: A

Cuban Diner
1484 Roswell Road
August 1, 2018 Score: 93, Grade: A

Daily Donuts 
2555 Delk Road, Suite A-11
July 25, 2018 Score: 100, Grade: A

Domino’s Pizza
4724 Lower Roswell Road, Suite 101
August 1, 2018 Score: 85, Grade: B

Great Wall Chinese & Sushi Bar 
1275 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 180
July 25, 2018 Score: 88, Grade: B

Hibachi Stop
2856 Delk Road, Suite 305
August 3, 2018 Score: 99, Grade: A

Home Base Dominican Restaurant 
279 Powers Ferry Road, Suite B
August 2, 2018 Score: 86, Grade: B

Kale Me Crazy
4475 Roswell Road, Suite 1620
July 27, 2018 Score: 91, Grade: A

Karachi Broast & Grill
1475 Terrell Mill Road, Suite 110
July 5, 2018 Score: 70, Grade: C
August 3, 2018 Score: 89, Grade: B

Kouzina Christos 
1453 Terrell Mill Road, Suite 125
July 25, 2018 Score: 75, Grade: C

Movie Tavern at Sandy Plains Village
4651 Woodstock Road, Roswell
July 12, 2018 Score: 87, Grade: B

Mr. Wok 
1750 Bells Ferry Road, Suite B
July 12, 2018 Score: 86, Grade: B

Sage Woodfire Tavern Windy Hill
3050 Windy Hill Road
July 10, 2018 Score: 88, Grade: B

Scholtzky’s Deli
3000 Windy Hill Road, Suite A-10
July 17, 2018 Score: 91, Grade: A

Sedalia Park Elementary School 
2230 Lower Roswell Road
August 3, 2018 Score: 100, Grade: A

Taqueria Tsunami
1275 Johnson Ferry Road
August 2, 2018 Score: 91, Grade: A

Tropical Smoothie Cafe
2960 Shallowford Road, Suite 102
July 16, 2018 Score: 95, Grade: A

Waffle House
2805 Delk Road
August 1, 2018 Score: 80, Grade: B

Zaxby’s 
2080 Lower Roswell Road
August 3, 2018 Score: 81, Grade: B

 

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EAST COBB WEEKEND EVENTS: East Cobb Rotary Dog Days Run; Lutzie 43 Road Race; Wasted Potential concert; football events; and more

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East Cobb Rotary Dog Days Run, East Cobb Weekend Events

As we’re typing these words, the sun has come out! It’s expected to stay out, at least partially, as this weekend’s sports-heavy lineup leads off Saturday with the 13 annual East Cobb Rotary Dog Days Run.

It gets underway at 7:30 a.m. at the East Cobb-McCleskey Family YMCA (1055 E. Piedmont Road). Race-day registration is $30, and the proceeds benefit a number of East Cobb charities, including School Mates Literacy Project, Canine Assistance, Aids Awareness, The Center for Family Resources, Cobb County Public Safety and Kids2Leaders Inc.

At the same time, the Lutzie 43 Foundation Road Race is taking place at Lutzie Field at Lassiter High School (2601 Shallowford Road), with proceeds going to the non-profit set up in the memory of Phil Lutzenkirchen, the former Trojans football star. It helps teach young people leadership skills and how to make good decisions. There’s a 1-mile fun run for kids in addition to the 5K. Race-day registration is $30 for students and $43 for adults.

Not far away, another school community is celebrating its upcoming football season. The Pope Football Pancake Breakfast goes from 9-11 in the cafeteria at the school (3001 Hembree Road), and is a Pope Touchdown Club fundraiser. For $11 a person or $26 a family (players eat free!), you’ll get pancakes, sausage, bagels, fruit and juices; stick around for the team picture day to follow.

Wasted Potential Brass Band
The Wasted Potential Brass Band returns to The Art Place Saturday.

Saturday also is Sandy Plains Softball Fun Day from 11-1 at Field 1 at Sandy Plains Park (2977 Gordy Parkway), and it includes walk-up registration for the fall season.

On Saturday evening, bring your blankets and lawn chairs to The Art Place (3320 Sandy Plains Road) and enjoy the sounds of the Wasted Potential Brass Band. The popular Atlanta group is appearing as part of the Mountain View Arts Alliance’s Summer Stars Concert Series. Concessions are in exchange for a donation to MVAA, or you can bring your own food (but no alcohol is allowed).

More prep football on Sunday takes place 2-4. It’s Walton Raider Day at the Raider Valley stadium (1590 Bill Murdock Road). Admission is free, and the jamboree-style event includes kids games, a coaches dunk tank, face-painting, trampoline-jumping and a meet-and-greet with all the Raiders teams. Wear your Walton Spirit gear, since there will be drone group photo taken during the day.

Also on Sunday, the Good Mews Cat Shelter (3805 Robinson Road) is having another microchip and vaccination clinic from 10-3. Additional services include nail clippings, and appointments are encouraged but not required. Dogs are welcome too, and all pets must be in a carrier or on a leash when they arrive.

Check our full calendar listings for more things to do in East Cobb this weekend, and beyond.

Did we miss anything? Do you have a calendar item you’d like to share with the community? Send it to us, and we’ll spread the word! E-mail: calendar@eastcobbnews.com, and you can include a photo or flyer if you like.

Whatever you’re doing this weekend, make it a great one! Enjoy!

 

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Proposed Powers Ferry Road development would replace long-vacant restaurants

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Powers Ferry Road development
Plans call to demolish four restaurant buildings on Powers Ferry Road for a nearly 500,000 square-foot, mostly residential complex near Wildwood Office Park, in upper right. (From Cobb Zoning Office case file.)

A proposed Powers Ferry Road development that would include nearly 500 residential units and restaurant and retail space comes before the Cobb Planning Commission Tuesday.

The rezoning request by Powers Ferry Road Investors, LLC, would raze a string of vacant restaurants and build 291 apartment units and 181 upscale senior active dwellings in between a 10,000-foot restaurant building, according to a filing with the Cobb Zoning Office (agenda packet item here).

The project would include three buildings totaling 438,555 feet near the Wildwood Office Park.

The 8.8 acres along Powers Ferry between Windy Hill Road and Windy Ridge Parkway currently houses only one active business, the Rose & Crown Tavern, which will remain and be “enlarged” in the new development, according to a zoning impact statement included in the case file.

Surrounding it are empty restaurant spaces that were once Sal Grosso, Famous Dave’s and TGI Friday’s. The Sage Woodfire Tavern location that opened last fall in the former Houston’s space on the corner of Powers Ferry and Windy Ridge Parkway is not part of the development.

Z-47, Powers Ferry Road development
The site plan calls for a senior living complex on the left, with a large apartment building at the right. The office/retail/restaurant space is slated for the center building. (From Cobb Zoning Office case file.)

(Earlier this week, Sage Woodfire Tavern filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but no announcements have been made on possible restaurant closings.)

The Cobb Zoning staff is recommending approval of the request to rezone the land with conditions from general commercial (GC) to regional retail commercial (RRC), which is recommended for large developments of 500,000 square feet or more.

The future land use plan calls for regional activity center (RAC).

The developer has included three variance requests that would reduce the front and a side setback from the minimum 50 to 15 feet, and reduce a recommendation of 859 parking spaces to 510.

The Cobb Zoning Staff analysis said while the requested zoning category is compatible with the area, the six-story heights are taller than nearby buildings. The staff also does “not support the reduction of the required parking spaces.”

Also on Tuesday’s Planning Commission agenda is a nearby request for another development on Powers Ferry Road that was delayed last month. It would replace the aging Powers Ferry Woods office park with a mixed-use project.

The cases are the latest major redevelopment projects slated for the Powers Ferry corridor since the opening of SunTrust PArk, and follow the  MarketPlace Terrell Mill rezoning approved earlier this year.

Here’s a summary of the cases to be heard Tuesday, and a link to all case files.

The meeting begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta.

 

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Bookmiser Roswell store closing on Sandy Plains Road in September

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Bookmiser Roswell store closing

Twenty years after first opening an independent bookstore in East Cobb, the owners of the Bookmiser Roswell store are closing it.

Owners Jim and Annell Gerson announced Tuesday that they’re closing the store at 4651 Sandy Plains Road by the end of September, and that a liquidation sale has begun for everything, including books, books on CD, fixtures and accessories.

Most items will be an additional 20 percent off during the liquidation. A specific closing date hasn’t been announced.

Their other Bookmiser store, at 3822 Roswell Road, at the intersection of Robinson Road East, is remaining open.

No more trades will be accepted at the Roswell store, which will keep its usual store hours as it prepares to close: Sunday 12-5; Mon-Fri 10-7; Sat 10-6.

Here’s more in a message sent out last night to Bookmiser customers:

Thank you all for making the Roswell location one of longest running bookstore locations in the state of Georgia.

Discounting of our inventory at the Roswell location will begin immediately, so please stop by for the extra savings. Early bird gets the worm, so stop by soon and often to take advantage of our discounts. Trade credit will still apply on any used merchandise purchased at either location.

The liquidation process does not lend itself to placing books “on hold” or searching for specific titles, so come on by and enjoy the search.

We hope all our Roswell customers will frequent our East Cobb store in the future. We will continue our off-site author events, and book clubs will meet at our East Cobb location.

Bookmiser opened in 1998, as retail brick-and-mortar book chains began faltering. The Borders location at The Avenue East Cobb closed in 2011 as the chain was liquidated. There also was a Bookstar store (part of Barnes & Noble) at the Providence Square Shopping Center in the 1990s.

Other indie book stores have come into East Cobb since then: Book Exchange on Canton Road, Once and Again Books on Shallowford Road and a Book Nook at 1547 Roswell Road.

They also have a buying and trading program, as does Half Price Books, a national chain that opened in East Cobb at Woodlawn Square on Johnson Ferry Road in 2016.

 

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Cobb under flash flood watch until 8 a.m. Friday

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Cobb flash flood watch

The start of the school year is a soggy one, and the rest of the week will be wet as well. Cobb is one of many counties in north and central Georgia under a flash flood watch until 8 a.m. Friday.

The National Weather Service in Atlanta is predicting that Cobb could get between and inch to an inch and a half of rain until then.

Under a flash flood watch, conditions exist that could lead to flash flooding of lakes, streams, creeks and rivers and could cause hazardous driving situations on roads.

The forecast for Cobb calls for cooler temperatures but high humidity over the next few days. Today’s high is expected around 80, with a low of around 70, and a 100 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms.

For Thursday, similar conditions are expected, with the rain expected to taper off to a 60 percent chance by the evening.

Friday also calls for a 60 percent chance of rain with highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s. Likewise for Saturday, with the chance of rain forecast to dwindle to a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms.

The rainy weather is expected to continue into early next week.

 

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