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Another fast casual pizza chain is making its Atlanta debut.
Blaze Pizza will open 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7 at at 2131 N. Decatur Road in Decatur, in the former Evans Fine Food space . The Pasadena, Calif.-based chain utilizes an assembly-style setup and ovens that cook pizza within 180 seconds, both signature and build-your-own pizzas, salads and desserts.
On Friday, Sept. 8, the eatery will host a Pizza Day event from 11 a.m.-9 p.m., with anyone who likes Blaze Pizza on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat getting a free 11-inch pizza with any toppings.
Golden Eagle and Muchacho, the restaurant and coffee concept from Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall owner Michael Lennox, has announced its culinary and leadership team ahead of its opening at 904 Memorial Drive in the former H. Harper Station space.
Muchacho, the smaller of the two spaces, will feature a "nod to 70's-era Venice Beach," according to a press release. Counter service will offer breakfast and lunch tacos, toasts, grain bowls, poke and pastries, plus a drink list featuring a handful of canned beer and wine, cocktails and housemade agua frescas.
Golden Eagle is an homage to Lennox's grandparents, "with a buttoned-down, retro aesthetic that channels the diamond-in-the-rough watering holes, neighborhood corner taverns and hotel lobby bars they would frequent in their native Pittsburgh," according to the release. The spot will serve an extensive cocktail and "continental classics of yesteryear" including garlic knots, crab Rangoon, and charbroiled oysters, as well shareable vegetable plates and a few larger items such as ricotta gnocchi and a tavern steak.
Key members of the restaurants' teams include culinary director Taria Camerino, who will oversee the menus of Golden Eagle, Muchacho, and Ladybird and previously served as the owner of Sugar Coated Radical and oversaw pastry at Ford Fry Restaurants and Resurgens Hospitality; chef de cuisine Jason Simpson, who served as chef de cuisine at St. Cecilia for the past three years; beverage director Eduardo Guzman, who previously served as beverage director at Ford Fry Restaurants, leading the bar programs at JCT Kitchen, The Optimist, Beetlecat and Marcel; general manager Nicholas Bown-Crawford, who previously served as director of operations at Le Fat, Ton Ton and One Rooster; and coffee director Sarah Harlan, who previously worked at Condesa Coffee and New York's Everyman Espresso.
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Reformation Brewery in Woodstock is teaming up with other Georgia brewers for a donation drive to provide food and cleaning supplies to Houston-area residents. Through Saturday, Sept. 30, the brewery will take donations in its Keeping Room, with the goal to load a tractor-trailer for delivery to the Houston Food Bank. Desired good include canned meat and fish; canned green vegetables (green beans, spinach, collard greens); canned tomatoes (no salt added), canned beans (no salt added); canned tuna, salmon, chicken and sardines; canned fruits in water or juice; whole grain pasta; quinoa; brown rice; powdered milk; cereal; and peanut butter and jelly. The drive is also accepting cleaning supplies such as bleach and paper towels
The drive seeks to assemble 20 pallets of goods to send to Houston, all gathered from Georgia breweries. Looking for more ways to help? Eat at these metro Atlanta restaurants to help Hurricane Harvey victims
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