Local caterer lands Woodruff Arts Center concessions
The Woodruff Arts Center has announced it plans to give long-term control of its concessions and food service to a team that includes a well-known local caterer.
Not only will the new group handle events, food carts and intermission bars at the arts complex, but it also will decide the direction of its troubled centerpiece restaurant, Table 1280.
Legendary Partners of Atlanta will operate as a partnership between Atlanta's A Legendary Event and Centerplate, a Stamford, Conn.-based food-service provider to arts complexes, Super Bowls and presidential inaugurations. A Legendary Event is one the city's top event planners, and its owner, Tony Conway, is a regular on the high-society party circuit.
"We are looking forward to bringing Atlanta back to the Woodruff Arts Center for its events and dining," Conway said in a prepared statement.
"Back" is the operative word. Since it debuted in 2005 as part of the Renzo Piano-designed renovation of the High Museum of Art,Table 1280 has failed to attract the kind of Midtown dining crowd it was gunning for. Restaurant Associates of New York previously provided the food-service management.
There was no word on whether Legendary Partners has any plans to revamp Table 1280's upscale bistro menu or retain its chef, Tracey Bloom, a contestant on the current season of the "Top Chef" TV series.
