Jenny Cubbon, owner of the Good Food restaurantat 2044 Lower Roswell Road (across from the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center), announced that it’s closed, as of today.
Good Food opened a little more than a year ago in The Shoppes at NewMarket Center and served up a variety of what she called comfort food in a cafeteria-style setting.
Here’s the message Cubbon sent out, and she also indicated she may regroup after the holidays for catering purposes:
Unfortunately, though very successful for a first year start up, we simply can not support the rent for this space and the landlord is unwilling to work with us in any reasonable way.
He won’t even allow me to put up a proper building sign. I guess he’d rather have empty spaces than work with us on rent. It’s hard to walk away from a thriving restaurant that I know has been a welcome addition to our community, but I’m left with no choice.
Thanks for the love,
Jenny and the Good Food Crew.
All catering orders will be honored as contracted.
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Back in August the owner of the Sage Woodfire Tavern Windy Hill had put the restaurant up for sale less than a year after opening. A reader passed by recently and alerted us that it that it looked like it had closed.
The restaurant did reach its first-year anniversary in October, but closed not long after that. According to a posting on its Facebook page, Sage Woodfire Tavern shuttered its doors on Oct. 28.
There was no word on whether the property has been sold, or what might come in its place. It opened in October 2017 in the spot of the former Houston’s restaurant.
The parcel at 3050 Windy Hill Road, at the intersection of Powers Ferry Road, is adjacent to, but not part of, a block of land that made up “Restaurant Row.” Those mostly vacant restaurant buildings will make way for a mixed-use development approved by Cobb commissioners that will include the remaining restaurant, the Rose & Crown Tavern.
The Sage closing is the second in the East Cobb area in the last couple years for the Sage Woodfire Tavern group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it sought a buyer for the Windy Hill property.
The Sage Social Kitchen was open for only a few months at Merchants Festival. The space is now occupied by Jason’s Deli, which opened earlier this month.
Just before it closed, the Windy Hill restaurant was promoting a new Sunday jazz brunch menu, as well as a new happy hour menu and live music performances.
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After getting some reader inquiries about the subject, we’ve got an answer to a question we’ve heard asked a lot in recent weeks: The Chick-fil-A Woodlawn Square reopening (1201 Johnson Ferry Road) is set for January.
That’s the word we got from Chick-fil-A representative Callie Bowers, who said there isn’t a specific date that’s been determined but is likely in the range of early- to mid-January.
The location has been closed since July for the construction of a new building and parking lot, including a double drive-through. When it closed, company officials were hoping to reopen in November.
When we last drove by a week or so ago, the new building was nearly completed, but everything around it is a pile of mud and dirt.
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Late Friday afternoon the owners of the Teriyaki Madness restaurant in East Cobb announced the location was closing for good:
We want to graciously thank all the customers that have passed through our doors over the past year and a half. We’ve enjoyed serving each of you. We have other Teriyaki Madness locations opening in the Atlanta area in 2019 – please visit teriyakimadness.com to see where the next TMAD will be in the Atlanta area. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
On Thursday, they were posting usual messages on social media, including a spirit night event for Addison Elementary School, as well as promoting promoting Uber Eats, Grub Hub and Door Dash delivery options.
Teriyaki Madness, based in Denver, operates 77 restaurants across the country.
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We got word this afternoon from Greg Felter, the restaurant’s managing partner, that the East Cobb Jason’s Deli opening will be this Monday, Nov. 12.
It was supposed to be Oct. 22 but renovation delays pushed that back. Hours are 10-10 seven days a week.
The Houston-based fast casual eatery chain operates 275 restaurants in 28 states, including 16 in Georgia and two in Cobb, near Cumberland and Town Center malls.
In addition to traditional deli-style menu options, Jason’s Deli also serves burgers, salads (and a salad bar), vegetarian dishes, soups, pasta entrees and a kid’s menu.
The Jason’s Deli space at Merchants Exchange (1401 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 334) has been the home for Sage Social Kitchen, Chequers Seafood and Steak and Houlihan’s.
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We got a message today saying that the East Cobb Jason’s Deli opening has been pushed back again, to mid-November.
We noted on Monday, which was to have been the opening, that construction delays resulted in a delay to Nov. 5.
Greg Feltner, the managing partner for the East Cobb Jason’s Deli, said in an e-mail this afternoon that the renovations are taking longer than expected, and here’s why:
“The building is more than 30 years old, so we basically had to gut the inside and start from scratch. The construction crew did not realize how long that would take.”
He didn’t mention a specific date because the construction crew is replacing all the tile in the kitchen, “which we were told is at least a 10-day job.”
The Jason’s Deli space at Merchants Exchange (1205 Johnson Ferry Road) has been the home for Sage Social Kitchen, Chequers Seafood and Steak and Houlihan’s.
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We heard from Benny Marchuk this morning that the Jason’s Deli opening that was slated for today is being pushed back.
He’s the manager for the East Cobb location at Merchants Festival shopping center (1205 Johnson Ferry Road), and said the restaurant will open two weeks from today, on Nov. 5, due to construction delays.
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The Peruvian dining spot isn’t going too far away, from its current location at 4905 Alabama Road in Roswell, along the Fulton-Cobb border and near the convergence of Sandy Plains Road and Mabry Road.
It’s opening up in larger space and with a full bar next to the Movie Tavern (4651 Woodstock Road), in the Sandy Plains Village shopping center. That’s only a block or so away.
The Freakin’ Incan made the announcement today, and said the last day of service at its current venue will be next Wednesday, Oct. 24. The restaurant will reopen in the new space in November but a specific date wasn’t given.
The Freakin’ Incan started out as a food truck and catering venture, with owner Mikiel Arnold, a native of Peru, opening a restaurant in Roswell in 2014. He expanded to Tucker last year.
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Red Sky Tapas & Bar is extending their southern hospitality to Hurricane Michael evacuees with a special discount. The restaurant will offer 15% off food entrees beginning Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14. Customers must present a valid ID from an evacuated area.
The restaurant is located at 1255 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 16, in the Market Plaza Shopping Center.
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Update: We’ll have more later, but a Los Bravos Mexican restaurant will be replacing Zeal.
Lots of restaurant news in East Cobb this week, some good, as we noted Tuesday about the opening of Jason’s Deli, and some not: A little less than five years after opening to some fanfare on Johnson Ferry Road, Zeal Kitchen and Bar will give way to a new restaurant early next year.
East Cobb News contacted owner Scott Sawant, who said “I got an offer earlier this week and I took the offer and sold to another company, which will open another different restaurant [in] Jan. 2019.”
Sawant did not identify the buyer. He said that a failing health inspection earlier this year was a factor in his decision.
Zeal passed a follow-up inspection, but he said in an interview with East Cobb News at the time that overcoming that kind of bad publicity is tougher than a bad review.
“It feels like you failed somebody in a relationship,” Sawant said.
This week, he told us that “we thought we could continue till at least December 31st or even longer.
“After the unfortunate health score in April we tried to recover and recuperate but it was tough.”
He said he is planning other ventures, starting early next year in Roswell, but did not elaborate.
“Now we are emptying the space,” Sawant said of Zeal, which was located in the former Empress of China II space in the Market Plaza Shopping Center, adjacent to Merchant’s Walk.
When we went by, we saw a closed sign and brown paper covering the inside front doors.
Sawant is a Wheeler High School graduate who emphasized his local roots and understanding of the East Cobb dining scene as it was drawing notice from Atlanta food critics.
He opened Zeal in October 2013, two years after Doug Turbush opened Seed at Merchant’s Walk, setting off an upscale dining wave in East Cobb that has had some notable casualties in recent months.
In February, the owners of Muss and Turner’s pulled the plug on their East Cobb restaurant at Woodlawn Square further down Johnson Ferry Road.
Zeal was Sawant’s first restaurant as an owner, after he worked at nearby LaMadeleine and with that chain as a corporate trainer.
The East Cobb restaurant scene also has become more competitive in recent months with the opening nearby of Taqueria Tsunami, Black Swan Tavern, La Novia Taqueria and Stockyard Burgers and Bones.
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An update to a story we posted back in May about the forthcoming East Cobb Jason’s Deli location: There is now an opening date.
Benny Marchuk, who’s the manager of the East Cobb location, called East Cobb News today to report that the first day of business will be on Oct. 22.
Opening hours will be from 10-10 seven days a week. The managing partner is Greg Felter.
He also sent the above photo of the outside of the building at the Merchants Festival Shopping Center (1401 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 334), and said there’s still some work being done to renovate the inside.
That’s quite a dramatic difference from the space that used to be Sage Social Kitchen and Houlihan’s.
Marchuk also said he’s in the process of hiring, and is accepting applications for the positions listed below on the flyer (here’s the link to apply online).
The Texas-based fast casual eatery chain operates 275 restaurants in 28 states, including 16 in Georgia and two in Cobb, near Cumberland and Town Center malls.
In addition to traditional deli-style menu options, Jason’s Deli also serves burgers, salads (and a salad bar), vegetarian dishes, soups, pasta entrees and a kid’s menu.
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Vine-ripe tomatoes are among the popular produce items that have drawn customers to Burger’s Market since the 1970s. (East Cobb News photos and slideshow by Wendy Parker)
On Sept. 1, the Burger’s Market is closing on Canton Road, where it has operated for more than four decades as a haven for fans of fresh produce.
Co-owners Sharilyn Burger Turner and Tina Burger Perry, sisters who took over the business from their parents in 2002, have found a buyer for their property at 1395 Canton Road. They put the market up for sale earlier this year.
Sharilyn Burger Turner said the decision to sell was bittersweet, but their parents, who are still active in the market, want to retire. A family business through-and-through, it’s been a hard business to maintain, despite the market’s success, and she said it was time to call time on what’s also been an abiding passion.
Sharilyn Burger Turner (right) and her mother (at left) meet with customers after announcing the market will close Sept. 1.
“It was a very hard decision,” Turner said Wednesday afternoon, not long after announcing the closure. “We love all of our customers and friends. We’ve been praying hard about it, that God would lead us in the right direction.”
Truman Burger, her father, opened a fresh produce market a little further up on Canton Road in 1973, then moved it to its present location at the intersection of Dickson Road in 1978.
Produce hailing from local sources, Georgia and the Southeast has been the centerpiece of the market, which has expanded to include jams, breads, artisanal and homemade food goods, as well as fresh herbs and plants.
Sharilyn and her mother were visiting with long-time customers, even exchanging a few hugs after breaking the news. For the week and a half that Burger’s will remain open, she says they will continue to do business as usual (the hours are 9-6 Monday-Saturday).
Truman Burger makes daily trips to the state farmer’s market in Forest Park, and other produce-procuring routines also will continue, including occasional visits to the Western North Carolina Farmers Market in Asheville.
Huge fans kept shoppers cool, with full supplies of what has drawn fresh-food lovers to Burger’s for decades. Vine-ripe tomatoes, very big and very red ones, are piled high in baskets.
“We built this business on vine-ripe tomatoes,” Sharilyn says. But that is hardly all.
Shelled peas, beans, zucchini and squash, okra, cucumbers, broccoli, turnips and collards, peppers, lettuce, cauliflower, peanuts, corn, onions and potatoes are organized neatly.
So are melons, bananas, oranges, pears, apples and other fruits. There’s plenty of elbow room, and so much to choose from. Out front, fresh plants sit in overflow fashion on tables.
This is all Sharilyn, Tina, their siblings and their own families have known.
“We grew up in banana boxes here,” says Sharilyn, whose children also have been raised around the market.
“It’s scary when you’ve never done anything else. But you have to think of this as a new adventure. God closes one door, and opens another one.”
The new owner has not said what might occupy the place where Burger’s Market is now.
Sharilyn said she’s unsure what her next step will be. She majored in psychology in college, and has thought of possibly putting that background to use in an assisted living environment.
“I love helping people,” she says, “but I’d like to think that we’ve been doing that here” at the market. “We just have wanted to make a difference with what we’ve been doing every single day.”
She admits saying goodbye to customers will be as hard as shutting the doors for good.
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Less than a year after it opened, the Sage Woodfire Tavern Windy Hill restaurant is on the auction block.
ToNeTo Atlanta, which covers Atlanta-area restaurant and retail doings, reported Tuesday that the restaurant at 3050 Windy Hill Road and Powers Ferry Road has been listed for sale with a selling price of around $250,000 and a monthly lease of just under $25,000.
Last month the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported that the Sage Woodfire Tavern group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but there was no indication if any of its restaurants would be individually closed or put up for sale.
The Windy Hill location is adjacent to what’s known as Restaurant Row along Powers Ferry Road, and which has a rezoning case for a mixed-use development coming before the Cobb Board of Commissioners next week.
That project would include apartments and an active senior living community and retain the Rose & Crown Tavern, the only existing business surrounded by vacant restaurant space.
The Sage Woodfire Tavern property, which was once the site of a Houston’s restaurant, is not part of that assemblage.
The Sage Woodfire group also briefly operated the Sage Social Kitchen at the Merchants Festival. It closed last fall after only a few months in business.
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