Upscale Southern farm-to-table eatery scheduled to close in Midtown.
Dogwood Restaurant is closing.
The upscale Southern farm-to-table eatery across from Bank of America Plaza at 565 Peachtree Street will close its doors Tuesday, June 14, the Atlanta Journal Constitution first reported.
A statement from the restaurant’s publicist confirms the Dogwood’s scheduled closure.
Here’s the official statement:
Dogwood Restaurant, located at 565 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga., is closed as of Tuesday, June 14, 2011.
While Dogwood has been overwhelmed by the support of loyal customers, the current economic environment and lower than anticipated sales have led ownership to make this unfortunate decision.
Dogwood is appreciative of the remarkable service and support offered by its team of employees and put forth by all of its partners and vendors. The team remains proud of the impression Dogwood made on the Atlanta dining scene.
Dogwood Restaurant was not immediately available for comment and there is no word on what will replace the Midtown restaurant.
Dogwood Restaurant
565 Peachtree Street Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30308
19 Responses
I would’ve loved to have eaten there, but they were closed on Sunday. It would’ve been the perfect spot for Sunday brunch, and they are right next door to a church. I really didn’t understand the closed on Sunday decision.
Had this one called a long time ago. It’s always unfortunate to see something of quality close, but my first thought was ‘what took it so long?’ I wouldn’t expect anything to last long there in Crawford Long no-man’s land.
All the gross crackheads and bums don’t help that area out. If they would close that damn shelter I and a lot of other people would be more willing to walk over there.
Bad location with hundreds of crackheads roaming the block. Shutter the damn shelter, move it to a more desirable area and give those men a free bus ride. Nothing will succeed in that area until that happens.
YAY! More empty space on our “signature street”! This is getting embarrassing…
Agree on the “crackheads & bums” comments… the location here is sketchy and will always be so until they close down the Peachtree-Pine Shelter.
Need to close the shelter, but remember Mick’s lasted there for MANY years. People will go to the right restaurant. A high-end restaurant is not the right restaurant in these times.
This was one of my favorite spots to dine in Atlanta over the last couple of years. Great friends used to meet at the beautiful bar and indulge in wonderful food – very high-end Southern – and a perfect atmosphere – a beautiful space!
I do agree with one of the writers – why not Sunday brunch? I think a place like this would have lasted forever in someplace like Dunwoody or Alpharetta where there is still money and the crowd is more genteel and would support a place like this. But who knows? Atlantans are notoriously disloyal lately.
Thanks, Dogwood!
Dogwood’s location was stretched too thin. 1 active [gated] church, a crazy huge homeless shelter, a hospital where the nurses order delivery, and a lone office building are not enough to support an upscale dining establishment for dinner and weekend meals. Livingston is about as far south as a similar establishment can go.
I bet if Dogwood were open closer to 10th or 14th around Crescent or Cypress Streets, or even in the base of 903 Juniper, it would have lasted much longer and done ok.
We need to clump dining and shopping to create a critical mass that is enough to attract more people and more synergy.
Sad loss for Atlanta, though. Really.
I’m in agreement with most…this was a great restaurant, but located in a horrible place. The building Dogwood is in seems to be a pretty nice building, which I assume was some developer’s attempt to get ahead of the building cycle (remember there were major redevelopment plans for Ponce & Peachtree that got tabled a few years ago).
That said, I have no idea why this place didn’t do a Sunday brunch, but I would imagine it has something to do with the religious ideology that a lot of businesses in the south mistakingly indulge. Chick-Fil-A might be the only business that doesn’t “need” an extra day of revenue, but being closed on Sunday is just bad business if you ask me.
@ Johnny – well said.
it did not help that from the outside, this place always looked closed.
Always wanted to try Dogwood, but never got around to it. Location was definitely a factor.
agree. get that shelter out of there. such a hindrance to midtown.
I am heart broken…I think Dogwood was fab. next to the Fox, and the owner was amazing just like the food.
The homeless shelter on Pine is one of the top three problems with midtown mile. It houses 700 men — that’s right, 700– and the woman who runs it has been uncooperative and hostile to the local community. Those men are out and about all day and while most of them are probably harmless there are a core group that aggressively panhandle, break into cars, defecate in bellsouth park or have even been violent. It needs to be relocated. The only restaurant that could survive near there is Gladys Knights because it’s an institution. Dogwood had an uphill battle with that shelter so close. If they don’t do something about it, it will continue to be a drag on midtown development. And before anyone tells me ghat I am unsympathetic to their plight or exaggerating, I live right near there and speak from experience. I got stories on top of stories.
If you’re curious about the other two on my list, they are the atrocious parking lot between 6th and 805 (including he abandons space where Loca Luna used to be) and the Church on 5th which serves free lunches to the homeless on Saturdays to make themselves feel like they are engaging in charity. Maybe they should do it on Sunday when they schedule worship or better yet, their parishioners can invite them to their own homes during the rest of the week in the other parts of Atlanta where they live.
I can’t believe this place stayed open as long as it has in ‘SoNo’.
For your information volkan, on Saturday we serve breakfast to the poor of our community and on Tuesday we serve dinner. No lunch is served right now but maybe we’ll bring that up as a new ministry starting soon.
I am heartbroken. We are staying at Georgian Terrace Hotel and planned for a month to Dogwood tonight!
This was, by far, the best place near the Fox. We’ve eaten here many times and loved every meal.
Others are right — walking from Fox to Dogwood after theatre was scary, as even before the theatre, bums were everywhere. I would never have walked it alone… It was embarrassing when out of town guests were with us, but we went anyway because the restaurant was truly outstanding.
I brought many out of town business (male) guests here for dinner (it was hard to explain how to get there, by the way). But… Those little grits boats and all the food always impressed people — ‘southern’ done so so well. The bar was great, too. I always walked to the garage with someone, of course.
Service and ambiance were wonderful. Design rocked.
I will watch for their next restaurant. Buckhead would be far more convenient for me, but there is now a HUGE hole in the Fox “strip”.
I’m not from Atlanta but have a lot if investment interests here but I love your/ the city. That being said has anyone brought this up to city council? Homeless people are inevitable and need to be helped, but revenue is being lost that ultimately helps everyone including the homeless. Just saying.