Tag: MidCity Cuisine

Shaun Doty took a break from opening new restaurants, focusing on Bantam & Biddy, private chef work, and consulting. Then, in late 2024, he got a call: The new owners of Barnsley Resort (just over an hour’s drive northwest of Atlanta, outside Rome) wanted to hire him as the property’s culinary adviser. “The resort has always been very successful at weddings and corporate retreats, but they wanted to rebrand it for leisure travel,” Doty says. “It needed to have the edginess of a restaurateur that competes in the Atlanta market.”

Shaun Doty is back in the kitchen again, and the only question you might have after dining at the Federal is, “What took so long?” Opening the Federal last November has been his greatest gift yet—to Atlanta and, perhaps, to himself.