7,000-square-foot tavern expected to open early winter 2013.
HKN Restaurants in a press release Wednesday announced it will open Ink & Elm in early winter 2013.
Located in the Emory Village, Ink & Elm is a lounge, restaurant, and tavern inspired by the history of Atlanta’s Druid Hills including the neighborhood’s designer Frederick Law Olmsted who is also responsible for New York City’s Central Park and the neighborhood’s Linear Parks [editor’s note: Legacy Restaurants was also inspired by Frederick Law Olmsted and has opened “Olmsted” in Midtown].
Ink & Elm will feature “elevated Southern dining in an open and relaxing environment,” according to the release.
Designed by Atlanta-based design firm ai3, the 7,000-square-foot Ink & Elm consists of four distinct spaces: the central lounge, the dining room, an intimate private dining room for group dining or meetings in front of the private fireplace or the large windows overlooking the new park at Emory Village, and the dark tavern, loosely based on a turn-of-the-century landscape design studio and features oversized stools, comfortable booths, and a wide variety of scotches, bourbons, and whiskies.
During the day, the tavern features sandwiches, soups, and salads. In the evening, the tavern features an elevated bar menu of appetizers, pub fare, and main dishes reflective of the same regionally inspired, locally sourced entrees in the dining room. For those hungry later after dark, the tavern makes Southern provisions available for a midnight meal or a late-night snack.
HKN Restaurants was founded in 2012 by Nick Chaivarlis who comes from a background of operating family-owned restaurants, Keith Osborne, a sommelier with over 20 years of experience operating and managing restaurants, bars, and hotels throughout the United States, and T. Hunter Jefferson, a former attorney at Alston & Bird, LLP.
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Will be very interested to see how this does. What space is this in exactly? I heard the old Park Bench space — what space is that? That pre-dates me I guess. I like what they’ve been doing with Emory Village a lot. I hope the students appreciate how much better it is now than 5 years ago.