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DEL.ICIO.USAll Amick, All the Time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Amick and his company, Concentrics Hospitality, are busy as bees. Adding to One Midtown Kitchen, Two Urban Licks, Trois, TAP, Piebar and Lobby at Twelve will be this fall’s opening of Room at Twelve, the dining concept inside the Twelve Hotel Centennial Park. Amick describes Room as a “modern American steakhouse” serving prime cuts of meat, sushi, slow-roasted meats and even a tandoori oven for skewered meats and fish. The look, designed by ASD (also the designer of Piebar), is bathed in charcoals and grays, with a giant mirror as a focal point. Chef Nick Oltarsh, from Lobby at Twelve, is designing the menu and will helm the kitchen as executive chef. The restaurant is slated to open in mid-September, with the hotel. Room at Twelve Centennial Park, 400 W. Peachtree Street, www.concentricshospitality.com. Meanwhile, Amick has plans to turn the old pipe fitting factory at 240 North Highland into Parish, a New Orleans-influenced restaurant/upscale grocery/juice and java bar. Birmingham designer Taylor Dawson, who also designed TAP, will help Amick restore the 1890 building, with plans to keep the original brick intact, as well as the slate roof. Scott Serpes of Two Urban Licks will design the menu, which includes an all-day breakfast (including lunch items such as po’ boys and muffulettas) downstairs and casual-but-upscale New Orleans-style eats upstairs; he will also serve as executive chef. Parish is slated to open the second week of January 2008. Until then, we can hang out and get a testosterone fill at Stats, 300 Marietta St., a casual take on the sports bar. It’s classic Amick, with three levels and each bathroom designed for a different decade. “There’s a heavy slant towards high-tech audio/visual,” said Amick by phone, “but if you don’t want to watch sports, you won’t have to.” Oltarsh is designing the menu, and 790 the Zone has plans to broadcast from the main dining room. The boys are back in town, baby.
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