Shea R. Embry is an Atlanta-based real estate investor with a mission to invigorate Cascade Heights. According to her website, Embry is in the process of renovating and restoring the historic area in order to bring in new tenants. Not only that, Embry plans to bring two of her own projects to the area as well.
Embry will open two restaurants, currently named Aunt Mary Opal’s Speakeasy and The Gulf Seafood and Burgers, early next year at 2310 Benjamin E Mays Drive and 2287 Cascade Road, respectively. Embry, who co-owns both buildings the restaurants will be located in, tells What Now Atlanta the names will change, but they have yet to be announced.
“I am honored to bring on the Executive Chef Deborah VanTrece—she’s the owner of Twisted Soul and an internationally recognized chef—as well as top 100 most influential people in the beverage industry, Tiffanie Barriere,” Embry shared with What Now Atlanta. Chef VanTrece will design the menus for both and Barriere will design the speakeasy’s interior space and personality, as well as it’s cocktail menu.
Chef VanTrece has over 25 years of ‘globe-trotting culinary adventures’ on the books, while Barriere has been awarded some of the beverage industry’s highest honors and is, among other roles, a member of the James Beard Advisory Board.
“To be able to bring Deborah and Tiffanie to Cascade Heights is a place of honor to the community…In doing so it will bring not just local, not just state, not just national attention, but international attention to Cascade Heights,” says Embry.
Both eateries are currently in the licensing stage, but Embry shares she hopes they will be open by January of next year, February at the latest.
