East Cobb restaurant update: Westfield Tavern has opened

Westfield Tavern opens East Cobb

When we stopped by Westfield Tavern on Monday, managing partner Erik Tierney was giddy about his latest restaurant opening.

“It’s going to be this week,” he said as employees moved about the 4.200-square-foot space at Shallowford Corners Shopping Center (4401 Shallowford Road, Suite 138).

On Thursday morning, he announced that the “family-friendly community tavern” was open for business.

As for now, the hours are limited as they ramp up staffing and get the word out. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and dinner service is from 6-9 p.m.

“As we adjust, we will stay open longer and later,” Tierney said in an Instagram message to East Cobb News.

That’s where he’s also posting opening updates for the time being.

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This is the third such tavern for Tierney, an Irish native who’s the proprietor behind Whitehall Tavern in Buckhead and Creatwood Tavern in the city of Smyrna.

We spoke with him in January when he was hopeful of opening in “a couple of weeks,” but permitting, licensing, hiring an remodeling prompted some delays.

On Monday, he pointed to a flat screen TV and said Direct TV needed to be installed.

“It’s March Madness,” Tierney said, referencing the NCAA college basketball tournaments that are in progress.

Work also was finishing on an enclosed patio area on our Monday visit.

The interior looks very similar to the short-lived East Cobb Tavern and the Keegan’s Public House that occupied the same space.

But it’s been freshly painted, and the kitchen was completely remodeled to serve a wide variety of tavern fare.

“We’re all about the neighborhood, all about the family,” said Tierney, who named this spot after the nearby Westfield subdivision.

The clientele will be slightly different from the other places in that it is expected to be more family-oriented, “but I think we will be very successful.”

Westfield Tavern opens East Cobb

Westfield Tavern opening East Cobb

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