Decatur Indian restaurant featured on Netflix’s ‘Ugly Delicious’ and more dining news from the week
Netflix has quickly become a major player in the food media landscape with shows like "Chef's Table," "Salt Fat Acid Heat" and "Ugly Delicious." The latter is premiering it's new season today and features fast-casual Indian restaurant Curry Up Now in its second episode.
The restaurant chain, which has a location in Decatur, hosted the show’s star and James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang, along with food writers Sonia Chopra and Osayi Endolyn, for a discussion of Indian food and it’s intersectionality with Hispanic culture in the U.S. Curry Up Now is known for menu items like the Tikka Masala Burrito, Quesadillix and Indian street tacos.
The new season of “Ugly Delicious” is streaming now, and you can try the food featured in the episode at Curry Up Now’s downtown Decatur location.
More dining news from the week:
- The Square Pub is closing. Its final service will be Saturday, March 7. The Decatur square restaurant and bar was open for nearly 10 years and was known for its Southwestern-inflected pub food. Read more here.
- Elemental Spirits Co., a boutique bottle shop adjacent to Manuel's Tavern, is now open, as reported by What Now Atlanta. The store specializes in relatively small beverage brands, including local craft beer, natural wines and small-batch spirits.
- Creature Comforts announced that it will release a limited-run beer honoring the late Atlanta chef Ria Pell. As part of the brewery's Brew for One initiative, proceeds from the sale of its Ria Pell Ale will provide support for a client of the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, an organization that chef Pell avidly supported during her lifetime.
- Linton and Gina Hopkins have decided to search for a new location for their forthcoming restaurant Eugene & Elizabeth's. Originally planned to take over the former Restaurant Eugene space, the couple will put the new restaurant on hold while they consider more walkable neighborhoods or even building their own space. The move ends the couple's 16-year tenure in the Aramore building in south Buckhead where they operated Restaurant Eugene and Holeman + Finch side by side. Read more here.
- Hudson Grille has closed its Brookhaven location. The restaurant's ownership group, Metrotainment Cafes, also closed the sports bar's soccer-centric sister restaurant in Brookhaven, Hudson FC, a few months ago. Read more here.
- In this week's First Look, a Georgia native brings a second location of his successful Las Vegas restaurant to Alpharetta. Read more about Carson Kitchen here.
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