The Beignet Connection to open at the mixed-use development Friday
Pencil Factory Flats and Shops’ newest Creole Cajun restaurant opens March 25, according to property manager, Matthew S. Rinker.
Rinker told What Now Atlanta Thursday The Beignet Connection, located at 349 Decatur street, will open Friday starting with lunch.
The “boutique restaurant” specializes in beignets, New Orleans Creole cuisine and contemporary Nouvelle Creole fares, such as gumbos, etouffees, bisques, jambalaya, po-boys and red beans and rice.
The Beignet Connection is opening alongside several other businesses at Pencil Factory including Mia’s Caramba Café, Marlees Coffee Tea & Tapas, Melange Hair Salon and Facebar, MasterGroome Barber Shop, Tailors Art Cleaners, and Intown Market.
Hill Street Tavern, announced in March of last year, is still slated to open on the corner of Hill and Decatur Streets, according to Rinker.
Pencil Factory, which opened in May 2009, is a mixed used development with 188 apartments and retail space, managed by Perennial Properties.
The Beignet Connection
349 Decatur St SE, Bldg 1
Atlanta, GA 30312
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This is great news. I don’t know much about these restaurants, but I love the concept of the Pencil Factory: re-adaptation of an older building into rental housing, and ground floor retail. I know the retail had been largely vacant – with the exception of a small bodega – for a long time, so it’s nice to see some change. Did this go to the bank and get taken over by somebody else? Just wondering why, after so much stagnation, the leasing is now picking up speed…
Regardless of whether the restaurant is any good, this is still shaping up to be an interesting and practical mix of retail for Pencil Factory– dry cleaner, coffee, and a corner grocery (with a respectable wine and beer selection). Too bad the restaurant and coffee shop’s prices will likely be set to cover the primo rents for new construction space, and that there will be zero foot traffic.
There is foot traffic there. Much of it is homeless people coming and going to the SamaritanHouse and that homeless shelter next door, though.