Tag: KR SteakBar

In Atlanta’s steakhouse landscape, KR SteakBar sits firmly in modern times. With its sleek, illuminated wall panels, bottle-shaped pendant lights, and stylish crowd, it could easily pass for a new restaurant, though it first welcomed diners in 2013.

If you asked me to name Atlanta’s favorite protein, two meats would come to mind: pork and chicken. I probably wouldn’t say beef. But I should. In the 30 years since the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta has quietly become one of America’s best cities for steakhouses.

Reinvented as a coal-fired pizza place in Peachtree Hills, Krog Bar 2.0 started serving salads and pies last week in the ADAC West development where Rathbun’s KR SteakBar resides. Expect 12- and 16-inch, thin and crispy pies with a bit of char.

Chef Kevin Rathbun's 17-year-old flagship American restaurant and nearby wine bar were due to shut down in early 2021 regardless because of a lease dispute, but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed up the timeline.

The Big Green Egg derives from a simple idea with an ancient lineage, as evidenced by pottery shards of cooking vessels in middens around the world. More specifically, it’s an updated iteration of a commonplace Asian rice cooker: the kamado, a Japanese word that translates as “place for the cauldron.”

In our car-centric city, the Atlanta BeltLine has been a game changer, and restaurant owners know that more than anyone. On Thursday, chef Kevin Rathbun (Kevin Rathbun Steak, Rathbun’s, Krog Bar, and KR Steakbar), Michael Lennox (Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall), and BeltLine designer Ryan Gravel of Perkins Will will lead a discussion about the impact of urban development on restaurant design at a sold-out event called Dining + Design.

It’s been a long road to glory for pasta in Atlanta. Without the large Italian population that blessed other American cities, we never had a community to teach us how to revere fragrant bowls of noodles.

As the saying goes, you win some, and you lose some. This year we saw famed mixologists leave their longtime outposts, award-winning chefs open new “it” spots, and the restaurant community band together to help one of their own. As we welcome in the new year, we pause to take a look back at what happened in 2013.

After being closed for more than two months, Rathbun’s will reopen September 23 at 5 p.m. The restaurant has been “brought back to life,” says owner and chef Kevin Rathbun, after a small kitchen fire broke out on July 4. Rathbun, who also owns Kevin Rathbun Steak, Krog Bar and KR SteakBar, revamped the ten-year-old restaurant’s menu, removing the “second mortgage” section and bringing back classic dishes from past menus. New cocktails are in the works, too.

For his first new restaurant in six years, Kevin Rathbun returns to Buckhead, where he started his Atlanta career as executive chef of Nava in 1994.