Owner of Red Door Tavern to reopen Buckhead’s Cheyenne Grille

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Peachtree Battle Shopping Center restaurant gets third owner

Cheyenne Grille, a 17-year-old restaurant in Buckhead, closed for the second time Feb. 6.

Steve Shamatta, owner of The Red Door Tavern, purchased the 5700-square-foot restaurant with plans to reopen on March 25, What Now Atlanta learned on a trip to the restaurant Tuesday.

Making the Cheyenne more of a “family friendly sports bar,” Shamatta said he needed a new challenge, something to “sink his teeth into” after owning and operating The Red Door Tavern for seven years.

We asked Shamatta if he thought parking would be a problem considering Boneheads owner, Ron Barber, claimed he closed the Peachtree Battle location located across the lot because there wasn’t enough.

“No,” Shamatta said. “There are 681 spaces for parking and most of these businesses are closed around dinner time.”

Jonathan Sheer, consultant and head chef for Cheyenne, told What Now Atlanta it’s “as if the new owners are opening a brand new restaurant.”

Cheyenne will offer “really good bar food,” according to Sheer, who added the restaurant is not “pretending to be anything else.”

Cheyenne will offer a new kids menu, but get this– menu prices are determined by the child’s height.

Using a life-sized cartoon of Stewie from Family Guy with measurements numbered out from head to toe, the restaurant will charge patrons ten cents per inch tall their child is.

“If your child is 35 inches, their meal is $3.50,” said Sheer. This will apply to kids 48 inches and less.

Ben Newton, a food salesman for Crisco working with the Buckhead restaurant, said the previous owners didn’t do a good job keeping the place clean which has caused major delay’s in their reopening.

“The kitchen was filthy,” said Newton. “What took the longest was just cleaning the place out.”

Taking the previous health score from a 56 to a 98, “everything is ready to go,” according to Newton.

Cheyenne Grille
2391 Peachtree Road NE Ste B1C
Atlanta, GA 30305

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

14 Responses

  1. 2nd owner of CG tried to pass crap on a plate as fresh local organic food. Telling me that their kitchen is one of the best and cleanest in the city. That their “chefs” came from upscale restaurant pedigree. One look and taste of that slop, that food deserved nothing less than the dumpster out front.

    Good luck CG v3.0!

  2. The food can’t possibly be any worse that CGs. That entire chain is just cynically lousy food.

  3. Steve, Congrats. For those of you that don’t know Steve, he will make the place work and will make it a true family friendly sports bar. You can’t ask for a better guy to take over the place. We will certainly be there to support him!!!!

  4. I really hope they get their act together if they want to make CG a success. I went the other night with a group of friends not realizing it was their “soft opening”. The server was extremely nice but not knowledgeable at all and seemed frazzled from being pulled in all different directions. The menu was sparse and they had no drink menu to speak of (“all that is coming” was the response we received). When we got our drinks and inquired why the glasses were only ½ full, we got a 5 minute lecture from a shabby looking guy (worker?, supervisor?, friend helping owners out?) on the dos and don’ts of how I guess every restaurant in Atlanta prepares drinks (we learned that it’s all about spillage and “a little is bound to slosh out of the glass when the server is carrying it”). I ordered a whiskey “straight up” and was served a shot shaken with ice and poured into a cocktail glass. When I sent it back, I got to enjoy the dirty looks exchanged in my direction by our server and the bartender (I was told I should’ve ordered it “neat”; I guess they subscribe to old traditions and was told I ordered the drink incorrectly). To top it all off, the bill was screwed up and had to be adjusted. Good luck to them!

  5. @JustinSG…..there’s a reason it’s called a soft opening, and usually only appreciative friends and family are envied to attend. Sounds to me like you went in here with a pin and pad looking to gig this place on everything no matter what they did. Waiter “frazzled”…. Guess what, maybe she’s nervous because she wants to do the best job possible and it is the first day they are open. Give the poor girl a break, your not at Chops. You then move on to try to say that there efforts to please you were not sufficient !?! Not only did they take the time to educate you but they remedied the “accident”……as far as a look goes…. Sounds like you were being a pretty negative person on a joyous occasion, such as a Company starting a new business…opening day! Mistakes will be made, get over it, once again SOFT OPENING. I personally know of at least 30+ people that gave been there since the grand opening, and not heard one complaint. I went there yesterday, hung out a couple hours. Great food , service, atmosphere all of the above. My advice to you, next time you head out, check your negativity at the door or stay home cause no one wants to hear it.

  6. @ The Situation – I am aware of a soft opening, and this was not the first time I’ve gone to a restaurant in the middle of one, but if it’s not advertised as such, when I go in and then I get excuse after excuse for the service I received, then I’m sorry if you think I expect too much. And yes, the server was frazzled…from running from table to table trying to keep up with everybody. The rest of the servers were running around as well while one was chasing after kids she was evidentially watching, who were for whatever reason, hanging out at the restaurant and climbing over all the empty tables. We even watched her at another table turn while taking an order and yell to the kids. The look exchanged between the people seated was priceless. No pen and no pad were needed to see that their soft opening was bumpy. I guess getting a dirty look for sending back something that I’m paying for because it was not prepared correctly is ok because it’s a “joyous occasion” for the owners, right? How about apologize, make it right without the looks, and invite me to come back to experience the service when they’re 100% up and running and have the kinks worked out? Contrary to what you believe, I am a very patient person and can go a long way at forgiving and overlooking, but flat out rudeness is unwarranted, “soft opening” or not.

    You’ve made a lot of presumptions of me, so let me to make one of you – you know the new owner(s) and are defensive because I knocked the restaurant, right? Well look at it through the eyes of somebody who does not know the owners – I had no negativity to check at the door; the negativity showed itself when – soft opening or not – I was unhappy with the service and the product I was provided and got the same excuse over and over again; and you’re trying to say they were “educating” me and my group was no such thing; it was a demeaning lecture, pure and simple. And “no one wants to hear it”…are you serious?? If that’s the case, then I really hope they have a lot of friends and family that will overlook problems and keep them in business. Finally, if Chops is what you consider to be the gold star of food and service in Atlanta, then I’m not shocked you think the food and service at Cheyenne Grille is as good as you’re claiming it to be.

  7. Actually I do not know the owner(s). My intent was to give an opinion of my experience of what I thought was a good place. I read way to many blogs such as yours that in my meager opinion are missing the point. You continue to rant about all of the “flaws”. My intent was to remind you that you were knocking a place that was open only to test themselves and their readiness. Others will decide for themselves and see this is a great place and will prosper.

  8. @The Situation – I’m past wanting to debate this issue further so last comment from me – I sincerely do hope the place prospers and wish the owners luck and no ill will, but I’m not going to sugar coat. You had a good experience, so post your take then instead of attacking somebody you do not know describing an experience you were not part of. I did not have a good experience and I posted my thoughts. Soft opening, bad night, finding their footing, whatever the case; we came away dissatisfied, even when taking into account the situation. When we tried to raise a concern, we were rebuffed. End of story.

  9. I can’t believe these comments. You all are so mean. Just a mean lot of ya’s over here. I like this place and if you don’t, well…just keep it to yourself. If you can’t say something nice, you’ll be humping fat chicks. Just sayin’. The only concern about the reopening of CG is the beer specials. They better have some.

  10. I’m truly excited that CG is re-opening. I was sad when the place closed down. I thought to myself, Miloshe, you are one handsome man that enjoys going to CG. How can they shut a place like that down? Then I realized, the staff at CG…not so good looking. Maybe now that they re-open, staff will be as good looking as Miloshe! Hey, in Russia, sports bar re-opens YOU!!

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