High-end Asian restaurant to shutter in Midtown
Silk restaurant in Midtown is closing.
A Silk manger who identified himself as “Todd,” confirmed Tuesday over the phone the restaurant at 919 Peachtree Street will close in May.
“I can confirm we are closing May 1,” Todd said.
Anna Hsu, owner of Silk, denied rumors early this year that the restaurant would close (story here).
“How dare you come in here at the close of the year, asking if we are closing,” Hsu said. “As far as I know, we are not. In fact, we have reservations for 2011.”
Since Midtown can’t support a high-end Asian restaurant, any suggestions for what should fill its place?
Silk Restaurant
919 Peachtree Street Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30309
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How about a burger joint? Or a fro-yo shop? Ohhhh, maybe if they’re looking for high-end Asian, a BENIHANA!
barf.
Is it that Midtown can’t support a high-end Asian place, or is there just too much competition with better price points and service? Specifically, Steel two blocks up, and Ra down a couple blocks? We love Steel, but found Silk to be overwhelmingly pricey and a little on the formal side.
open another mediocre sports bar with bar food, atlantans love that crap. not that Silk had good food.
For one thing, the building needs to find a way to re-route the restaurant ventilation so that it doesn’t blow onto pedestrians on 8th St. That “high-end” Asian fried air was vile. It seriously deterred me from even wanting to step foot in the place. Future squatters beware.
I agree with Benji, its not that midtown can’t support it, its that we chose not to based on the quality of the food.
If the food is good and consistent, Midtown will support the higher prices. If it’s mediocre and expensive, it’s going to fail. I don’t have any ideas for the space but I hope something else opens there quickly. Hate seeing so much vacant space on Peachtree.
I tried this place once, and like most people here, felt the food was better off left in the sea. Simply nothing remarkable about this restaurant, and it was in a remarkable location. In a perfect world, Silk leaves, and is replaced by Whole Foods (who subsequently shuts down they’re poorly managed store on Ponce) or some other boutique organic market. Is also love to see Yes Home replaced by a unique boutique (no rhyme intended) with decent men’s clothing – to supplant the brokerage job Drew Lewis does (by that, I mean there is nothing original, just a bunch of brands you can get at a mall). Drew Lewis gets filled by a modern art gallery, bookstore/coffee house/newsstand. In all reality of course, Silk will probably sit empty for 12 months, then become Hudson Grill – 7th St, Yes home will get leased to Brooks Brothers or the GAP, & Drew Lewis will continue to be the midtown location of the men’s department at Bloomingdales.
I’m hoping that Antico will one day open a 2nd location and I really believe this location would be ideal. It would make this stretch of the Midtown Mile more desirable and Antico would make a butt load of money here I’m sure.
I agree that some sort of market would be great to have. Though, like Felix said, it will probably be burgers or fro-yo. Or the new obsession – hot dogs.
DEAN & DELUCA!
I second Eric. Uptown Charlotte has one, so why not Midtown? I’m all for independent stores, but this flagship corner location screams upscale national name recognition.
D&D is the best idea I’ve heard all day!
We need more Mexican joints in Midtown. Pricky Pear is the only one that I know of that is descent. There is Zocolo, but you don’t go there for Mexican food…
Mexican generally translates into crappy food and cheap beer. Atlanta has plenty of that already. Dean & Deluca would be killer…
Dean and Deluca would be great! And it’s a perfect spot for it. Good idea!
I’m not opposed to a Dean and Deluca, but something more local like a Midtown outpost of Star Provisions or Alon’s would be pretty amazing.
No big surprise. I don;t see how they hung in as long as they did. There was not one thing special about it.
very surprised they lasted 6 years…In its place, No sports bar, burger joint, Mexican or Italian restaurants please…and there is already enough Asian restaurants in Midtown…other than that…lol
Bookstore! Atlanta needs a good bookstore. Please don’t waste your time telling me to check out A Capella or Eagle Eye; and Outwrite is excellent, but obviously narrow in range. Yes Home or Silk would be a great space for it.
Wasn’t Dean and Deluca slated to open in the “never going to happen” Streets of Buckhead.
I say tear the whole f*cking building down and rebuild the Stein Club.
It will just sit there with paper on the windows…waiting for things to improve…