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New details on the Polaris, set to open in late March/early April

When word got out that downtown Atlanta’s Hyatt Regency was working to reopen the Polaris—the blue-dome saucer that was immediately a skyline hallmark when it opened in 1967—the city buzzed with excitement. Details on the redesign have been kept under wraps since, and so I was excited when I got to meet the designers at The Johnson Studio and see the space last week.

Bill Johnson Has Set the Stage for Atlanta’s Most Iconic Restaurants

No one has designed more high-profile Atlanta restaurants than architect Bill Johnson. Some of his early projects from the late 1970s and the early 1980s—including Peachtree Cafe, where Buckhead learned to love Chardonnay at the pastel-colored fern bar—predate the creation in 1988 of the Johnson Studio, the Downtown architectural firm responsible for the atmospheres of upscale titans of the 1990s and 2000s, including Seeger’s, Joël, Bluepointe, Nava, Ciboulette, Dick and Harry’s in Roswell, and MidCity Cuisine.

Who deserves to run the new Hyatt Polaris restaurant?

Amy Wenk at the Atlanta Business Chronicle is reporting that plans are in motion to reopen the Hyatt's iconic, spaceship-shaped Polaris restaurant. You'll need to be a subcriber or pick up the print edition (like we do) to get the full story, but here's a few juicy details:

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