Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
The son of Bob Amick, proprietor of the well-known Concentrics restaurant, Justin Amick proved himself at a few of his father’s eating places, together with Parrish in Inman Park. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and Massive Amik’s lease was expiring, he determined to shut the New Orleans-style restaurant for good. However his son — noting the rising recognition of the Beltline — wasn’t prepared to surrender the house.
“I had the thought to take it to the following degree,” says Justin Amick.
He tore out the small parking zone separating the constructing from the Beltline and put in a inexperienced zone and a tunnel connecting the 2. He expanded the constructing by 1,000 sq. toes, including giant home windows and patio ceilings. The partitions have been returned to their pure brick, the concrete ground has been warmed with hardwood and a “floating” DJ sales space has been added. Improve the size of the primary bar; Video games reminiscent of ping-pong, darts and skee-ball had been bought; And an outside bar was constructed. On October 28, it’ll open as Painted Park, developed by Painted Hospitality, the group behind Painted Pin, Painted Duck and Painted Pickle. Not like the group’s different ideas, Painted Park goals to give attention to consuming and consuming and leisure second. Amick calls it “a spot of recreation, inexperienced house and personal occasion house.” It is strictly 21 and up.
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
“We need to be the neighborhood cheers for the residents round us and the vacation spot for vacationers in their very own cities who cross the Beltline hall on the weekends,” he says.
At 10,000 sq. toes, the Painted Park is lower than half the scale of the areas Amick and enterprise accomplice William Stallworth are used to managing. Nevertheless, they used design components to divide it into areas with totally different vibes. Outdoors, the white cottage-like gazebo bar serves a restricted food and drinks menu for these within the park with their pups, by the hearth pit, and watching the large sport. Solarium offers an indoor/outside really feel with French doorways. It results in the gaming room with free board video games, shuffleboard, poker, card video games and extra. Impressed by a classic gaming parlor, it options wooden paneling and a comfy really feel. A full meals and beverage menu is obtainable via desk service.
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Upstairs is a mixture of fashionable and artwork deco decor. Polished brass bars span two eating rooms. The unique tin roof is now gloss black. Furnishings are mushy and enjoyable, together with three outsized Chesterfield cubicles and a leopard print ottoman. A lot of this may be eliminated, making means for a dance ground on weekend nights. Above the solarium is the mirror bar with a backlit white onyx prime. A fuel hearth warms the world and, like wooden, animal print wallpaper provides curiosity. Full profit is first come first served.
As an alternative of specializing in meals first and drinks second, Amick wished to begin with an incredible drinks menu. “We had been very intentional about creating an grownup expertise,” he explains. “A fantastic drink will result in an incredible chunk of meals. A fantastic chunk of meals would not all the time result in an incredible drink.” Company Beverage Director Julian Goglia has created a cocktail record categorized as signature, frozen, elegant and non-alcoholic. Many drinks are coastal-inspired to go well with Georgia’s temperate local weather 9 months of the yr. One of many signatures is the “Goonies By no means Say Die,” made with bourbon, ginger, lime and grain of paradise. Sit within the solar with a frozen strawberry daiquiri or sip on a Hurricane, a ode to Parrish’s mild choices , gimlets and caipirinhas are included. Three composed “shooty bois” photographs can be found.
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Places collectively a complicated, amicable wine record, specializing in these with excessive acidity and minerality. There are 5 reds and 5 whites by the glass crimson, plus some bubbles and a rose. A compact reserve bottle record is on the market as properly. Sweetwater has six beers on faucet, together with Painted Pilsner, all out there in Painted ideas. Bottles and cans embrace each native and nationwide manufacturers—alcoholic variations, too.
Designed by Painted Hospitality Company Government Chef Thomas Collins, the meals choices are giant and different. They vary from bar fare (fried calamari that riffs on an previous One Midtown Kitchen recipe) to sandwiches (meatball sub, grilled turkey Reuben) to salads (Cobb, kale Caesar). There is a part for “fries your means”—for pizza, buffalo rooster or truffle—and one other for health-conscious bowls like tuna poke and hibachi. The juicy Lucy burger is a throwback to Amick’s days in Spain with chef Richard Blais.
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Photograph by Heidi Harris/Our Labor of Love
Not like different Painted ideas, which primarily supply a la carte objects, Painted Park serves plates made with fries, house-made chips or a facet salad. For dessert, strive the tunnel cake, a play on the fairgrounds favourite. Weekend brunch contains pancakes, an Anson Mills grits bowl and avocado toast for millennials.
Open Monday via Thursday at 5 p.m., Friday at 3 p.m. and weekends at 11 a.m., Painted Park will supply a “refined, upscale occasion.” “There’s numerous historical past right here. I am excited to carry it full circle and take this constructing into its subsequent chapter.”
See menu beneath
commercial
