Tex-Mex restaurant’s first Atlanta location coming to Midtown.
Mi Cocina, a Tex-Mex restaurant, is opening its first Atlanta location in Midtown, Lisa Schoolcraft with the Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC) first reported.
The Texas-based restaurant is coming to the 12th & Midtown development near 12th and Peachtree streets, according to the ABC’s report.
It is expected to open in late October or early November 2012.
Mi Cocina will open at the 1010 Midtown building, which houses Ri Ra Irish Pub, Ra Sushi, Piola, CB2, Bank of America and the now shuttered Noon Cafe and Bar, at the $2 billion mixed-use project.
Cafe Intermezzo is also slated to open at 1010 Midtown in April 2012.
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Can somebody open something else than restaurants in this city(midtown)?
So much creativity!!
Bobby Berk Home just opened in our condo (805 Peachtree) yesterday & it is really slick! Great home furnishing & accessories! I think it is going to do quite well!
Hey, more chain crap coming to Atlanta…what a surprise!
@Urbanist; you’re dead wrong. And, your lame negative opinions have grown old. In fact, your own predictability contradicts your disdain for chain restaurants. Example, people who go to Applebee’s expect to get the same drab crap. Every time you comment, we expect the same drab crap.
Have you ever been to a Mi Cocina? Doubtful. Your negative opinions without experiencing for yourself simply proves you’re on-going irrelevance and verifies your ignorance. Congrats.
Happens to be a solid restaurant that’s a great addition to the advancement of the neighborhood. Looking forward to their arrival!
@CMK I thought the exact same thing while reading the post “let’s scroll down and see what pre-fabed anti chain rant Urbanist will post on this one. Will he insult the residents tastes? Perhaps the city’s leadership? Or maybe his ever prevalent not enough developers rant. Fact is since he has stated any group with mulitple locations even our local only restaurant groups are chains, you’d be really hard pressed to find anything in this country that Urbanist would not consider a chain. Even in that mecca of culture and culinary class NYC. Oh also Urbanist, I went to Kenessaw State and I’m in a higher tax bracket than you, come down from that ledge…on second thought, don’t.
@ CMK – Do you want to explain to me how this place is not a chain?
That’s funny too, trying to draw a comparison behind my relatively frequent criticisms of the banality of this city, and the vast majority of its dining scene, and the chain restaurants themselves. I’d really like to have something more positive to say, but I respond to the news that’s provided.
I have been to a Mi Cocina…actually just recently, as I have family in the Dallas area, that after several years of avoiding them during holidays, I decided to suck it up and visit in the burbs for a couple of days. It was terrible, as was the food at Mi Cocina.
It happens to be a piss poor restaurant with a boring formula for mediocrity that this city will no doubt love…
Are we approaching a restaurant bubble? On another note…highly successful restaurants make great tenants from an owner’s perspective – they often pay higher rent and help to expand retailers’ operating hours by keeping people in a development past 6:00. If there is a breakpoint in the lease, high volume could mean additional rental income.
I think Steve Baile said not too long ago to expect restaurant tenants for ground level retail space at 77 12th, too. It is getting kind of ridiculous. Why are people in Atlanta so ready and willing to pay expensive valets or parking fees to eat out, but not prepared to do the same for city shopping?
Urbanist,
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all. Especially about your family!
– Johnny Simmons
On another note, Fifth Group is opening their new seafood restaurant Lure in the old Vickery’s space on Crescent. We must really really really be approaching a restaurant bubble!
http://fifthgrouprestaurants.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/does-this-lure-you-in/
thisis wonderful news, we need to keep midtown, strong, vibrant and prosperous. if you want more businesses open one. i will come shop, buy and support.