Tag: Buckhead

Wonderfully Made Bakery, based out of Peachtree Church in Buckhead, launched in 2024 to foster community among young adults with autism and Down syndrome, giving them a social outlet where they bake and package cookies a few days each week.

 Hermès, the almost 200-year-old brand known for its leather goods, ready-to-wear clothes, and iconic Birkin bag, opened at Phipps Plaza over the weekend. The new space highlights the brand’s 16 metiers, or categories of...

If you would have told Lisa Frank 40 years ago that the woodlands she inherited when she bought her 1950s ranch house in Buckhead would turn into a whimsical garden, she would not have believed you. Frank was a busy writer who launched public relations departments at the High Museum of Art and Atlanta Botanical Garden. In the 1990s, she started dating Terry May, the then-superintendent for grounds at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The gardener had permission to take home rare plants that the garden could not accommodate, and he started planting in Frank’s garden on a whim.

You can have your Space Needle. Your Chrysler Building. Your Burj Khalifa. Your Sears Tower, or whatever they’re calling it now. Give me Bank of America Plaza—the tallest building in Atlanta for more than 30 years, a certifiable supertall skyscraper—any day.

Nine-time Grammy winner Norah Jones brought her Visions tour to Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park on Saturday evening. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.

Architect Scott West channeled Wright’s philosophy when designing this Buckhead house for a family of four. He used natural materials like wood, stone, and concrete throughout the structure. Ipe ceilings stretch across glass transom windows and out above the terrace. Marble with dramatic veining functions as art. Glass-walled “pocket gardens” are tucked into the entry, primary suite, and even the basement garage to add organic texture.

Violinist and dancer Lindsey Stirling performed to an energized crowd at Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park on Monday night as part of her Duality tour. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.

A new children’s indoor play space, Kids Avenue was created out of a father’s love. Roi Shlomo, the entrepreneur behind Yogli Mogli and Kale Me Crazy, wanted to spend time with his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter in a safe and educational environment. He was operating an event facility in Buckhead, but he wasn’t passionate about it. “I was going to sublease the space and had a deal in place. It was a rainy weekend, and I was stuck home with my daughter without anywhere to go. I cancelled the deal and turned the space into a kids’ heaven,” he explains.

Nowak’s steakhouse owner Blaiss Nowak, son of Hal Nowak (Hal’s the Steakhouse), is converting the restaurant's Morningside location into a Mexican cantina. The team is swapping out some of the artwork and lighting and launching a menu of tacos, fajitas, quesadillas, enchiladas, burritos, nachos, and more.

Two Atlanta restaurants—Bacchanalia and The Chastain—won Michelin Green Stars in 2023. Started in 2020, the Green Star recognizes an establishment’s commitment to environmental stewardship. We talked to Christopher Grossman, owner and executive chef of The Chastain, about cooking and his secrets of sustainability.