Take a tour of East Atlanta's Global Grub Collective
BY ELIZABETH LENHARD
Did you hear? East Atlanta Village has gotten itself a food hall.
Perhaps you’re picturing gleaming subway tile and pallet walls. Consequently, you might be worrying that this eternally scruffy crossroads just south of I-20 is going to lose its edge.
You’ll stop worrying when you check out the T-shirt worn most days by Q Trinh. She’s both the food hall’s crackling-with-energy matriarch and a chef whose Vietnamese street food has a cult following.
On the back of Trinh’s green, baseball-style jersey, iron-on letters spell out Pho Q. If you know how to correctly pronounce the classic beefy noodle soup called pho — well, there’s your edge.
Likewise, the food hall, which is more a charmingly cramped food hallway, isn’t called East Atlanta Market, a la Krog and Ponce. Its name is as oddball and upstarty as the village itself: A Global Grub Collective.
The grub is good, y’all, and cheap, with a vast majority of the dishes selling for less than $10. The space’s cherry red picnic tables, string lights and roughly painted tree mural are homey and cozy. But, it’s a gritty kind of cozy, like a purple-haired, tattooed girl who likes to knit.
Read more about A Global Grub Collective and what you should try if you visit, and scroll down to get a taste of what to expect.
A Global Grub Collective, 479-B Flat Shoals Ave. S.E., Atlanta.
About the Author
Yvonne Zusel has been with the AJC since 2010. She worked on the digital news and food and dining teams before joining the arts & entertainment team.
