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Citizen Soul will bring West Coast-style dishes (and plenty of beer) to Alpharetta

Come September, the new Alpharetta City Center will be home to a West Coast tavern called Citizen Soul. Created by Phillip Cooper, the man behind VIN25 bistro and wine bar in Roswell, Citizen Soul will serve California casual cuisine in an upscale environment.

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No genre of restaurant may be trickier to pull off in Atlanta than the wine bar. It doesn't quite jibe with our character. In walking cities like New York and San Francisco, where wine bars flourish, they pop up as small, intimate hangouts—boozy versions of coffeehouses—or transform into cheffy showcases that glamorize charcuterie and dote on obscure wine varietals from France and Italy.

In driving cultures like Atlanta, where we tend to hunker down at one establishment for the night, light bites like salumi and cheese plates alongside glasses of Prosecco or Pinot Noir don’t suffice: We require heftier sustenance. Even Inman Park’s tiny Krog Bar, which serves forty to fifty wines by the glass, began in 2005 with a simple menu including chicken liver pâté and finger sandwiches but eventually wove stouter dishes like seared duck and garlic shrimp into the mix as well.

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