Photograph by Ben Rollins
When Tom Murphy opened his namesake restaurant in Virginia-Highland in 1980, the area was ripe with new restaurateurs. The neighborhood had fought off the Georgia Highway Department which had planned to plow an interstate right through its heart and home values were soaring. The Dessert Place and Capo’s Cafe had joined stalwarts like Atkins Park, George’s, and Moe’s and Joe’s as neighborhood hotspots. The original Taco Mac had opened the year before, foregoing the expense of a new sign in return for a better kitchen.
Longtime Atlantans may remember Capo’s owner John Capozzoli roaming the dining room occasionally with a joint tucked behind his ear stopping to chat with regulars as they feasted on fettuccine Alfredo and his signature chicken diablo. Down the street, at the Dessert Place, cofounders Sheryl Meddin and Bennett Frisch baked moist carrot cake and addictive cheesecake brownies.
Kinship Butcher & Sundry targets a February 1 opening in Virginia-Highland
The shop will offer fresh meat, sandwiches, coffee, and basic pantry items
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Kinship owners Rachael Pack and Myles Moody in front of the historic building that will house their butchery and market.
Courtesy of Gene Kansas | Commercial Real Estate
Myles Moody and Rachael Pack are fine-dining hospitality professionals who moved to Atlanta in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. They had big plans to start a restaurant group, but as Pack says, “I can’t think of a more inappropriate thing to do than open a fine-dining restaurant right now.”
Instead, they thought about the idea of hospitality and how they could become more engaged with the community on a different level. The result is Kinship Butcher & Sundry. Located in the former home of Goin’ Coastal’s bar area, Kinship will serve as a market and meeting place for neighbors to purchase fresh meat, sandwiches, coffee, and basic pantry items, eac
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Shop from Linton Hopkinsâs pantry at the Butteryâs new retail location
Now open off Cheshire Bridge Road
Courtesy of the Buttery
Thirty cheeses, 15 types of ham, five varieties of bacon, four kinds of butter, fresh shrimp stock, pastas from the White Bull, and fresh sandwiches and salads. These are just a sampling of the items available from a new market located behind Nakato off Cheshire Bridge Road (2137 Manchester Street). The 500-square-foot store, which sources from local farmers, purveyors, and artisans, is a brick-and-mortar extension of chef Linton Hopkinsâs online marketplace the Buttery ATL.
In August, Hopkins, founder of Hopkins & Co.âwhich includes C. Elletâs, Holeman & Finch Public House, H&F Burger, Holeman & Finch Bottle Shop, and Hopâs Chickenâlaunched the Buttery ATL as a way to utilize the talent and materials from his restaurant empire in a pandemic-friendly way. It allows Atlantans to order more than 160 ite