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ChocoLaté Coffee couldn’t stay awake at their Lavista Walk location in Buckhead.
Located at 1159 Lavista road, ChocoLaté Coffee closed this past Wednesday, July 14. This closure was planned.
Sources at the 2558 Shallowford Road location says the owners had to pull the plug because the Lavista Walk location simply wasn’t getting the necessary business to stay open.
Serving coffee and dessert in an environment that offers organic espresso, free wireless internet, leather chairs and couches, the first retail location of the ChocoLaté Coffee brand originally opened in 2002.
With two other thriving and jittery locations, ChocoLaté Coffee probably isn’t the only business that was nodding off at Lavista Walk. Our guess for failure is location.
What are your thoughts on this closure? Is it the ChocoLaté Coffee brand or the location?
Thanks to reader Jenna L. Shulman for tipping us off on this closure. Have a tip of your own? Email us at [email protected]
Chocolaté Coffee
1159 Lavista Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30324
4 Responses
I’m a fan of ChocoLate and go to the Shallowford location mostly since it’s not too far from my office. We went to this LaVista location a few times on the weekend and enjoyed it but it was never as busy as the Shallowford — and certainly not as busy as the always-packed North Decatur location.
I’m sorry to see this close and to lose a weekend coffee spot, but I’m not really surprised since this is kind of a wacky location. The intersection of LaVista and Cheshire here is a hot mess of traffic and (to my eyes) unattractive strip malls. This LaVista Walk mixed-use building looks great in itself, but it’s a nugget of pleasant, urban density plopped down in the middle of a generally unwalkable, traffic-choked, car-dependent area.
Actually, that last statement describes a few other similarly ill-placed, mixed-use buildings around Atlanta. Urban, walkable development is only gonna work when it’s built with pedestrian connectivity to other bits of density. I hope this experience doesn’t prevent ChocoLate from trying to expand intown. I’d love to have one closer to my Midtown home.
Darin, you took the words right out of my mouth! I love the look of LaVista Walk, but you can’t just throw up an Urban development like that and expect it to thrive in an area where nothing else around is walkable and where traffic is a nightmare. I haven’t done my research on that intersection, but I’m hoping that something else is planned to be done to increase the walk-ability of the area. And yes, there are WAY too many urban developments around Atlanta that have the same problem.
The Lindbergh Lavista corridor is working hard to make this area walkable and livable. http://www.lindberghlavista.org/ check it out!
Ahh, thanks for the info Greg!