Tag: Kraig Torres
Is patio dining the future of restaurants?
Some say it’s always patio season in Atlanta—and, with COVID-19 concerns plaguing indoor dining rooms, they could be right.
New from the Hop City team, Boxcar restaurant promises 1,000 beers and 800 wines
The Hop City Craft Beer & Wine team is opening its second restaurant in West End's Lee + White development in March. Boxcar will allow Barleygarden chef Matt Hutchins to "create things that [are] a little more sophisticated."
The best beer and wine pairings for your favorite football snacks, according to Atlanta experts
If you’ve been washing your favorite tailgate snacks down with watery beer, stop. We chatted with Perrine Prieur Gallardo, founder of Perrine’s Wine Shop in West Midtown, and Kraig Torres, owner of Hop City Craft Beer and Wine, about which beverages go best with game day food.
This is what you’ll find at Avalon’s new expansion
Two and a half years after it first opened, Alpharetta's Avalon development will double in size with the grand opening of its next phase, Boulevard East, on April 13.
Spotted Trotter’s Kevin Ouzts is in as exec chef at Avalon’s Barleygarden Kitchen and Craft Bar
“I’m pulling together what I’ve learned at the market. I was able to walk away [from the Cockentrice] with a great deal of education about what folks are looking for,” Ouzts says of his new role at Barleygarden, a new restaurant from Hop City's Kraig Torres.
The Ultimate Hop City Drinking Guide to Krog Street Market: Part I
Collectively, Krog Street Market's tenants make for good eating and drinking, which brings me to the point of this series: Which beers make for the best food pairings? In this first installment, Hop City owner Kraig Torres, with the help of his bar manager, Trevor Jones, picked the best pours for dishes from Fred’s Meat and Bread, Yalla, and Grand Champion BBQ.