Restaurant opening in space formerly occupied by Straits at 5th and Juniper.
UPDATE (February 23, 2016): Time (Restaurant) Has Temporarily Stopped
Bottle Bar & Bistro (formerly Buckhead Bottle Bar) will reopen under a different name in its new midtown home.
The restaurant shuttered in Buckhead with plans to relocate to space formerly occupied by Ludacris’ Straits on the corner of 5th and Juniper after The Loudermilk Cos published plans on its website for a new “office with retail” mixed-use development on land where Bottle Bar & Bistro used to sit.
Renovations to the former Straits space have been underway since the announcement and just this week Bottle Bar posted graphics to the restaurant’s social media profiles indicating its new name “Time Restaurant” including an updated Facebook cover photo.
Bottle Bar’s Instagram username has since been changed to “TimeLounge” reflecting the more than 4,000 followers the Buckhead restaurant had collected on the social site since opening four years ago.
Simon Guobadia, chairman and CEO of Simcol Restaurant Concepts, the restaurant group behind Time, over the past few days started tweeting about the name change.
“Time Restaurant & Lounge – we are a multidimensional business coming soon,” Guobadia tweeted.
Bottle Bar first opened as “Buckhead Bottle Bar” under the direction of restaurateur A.D. Allushi alongside Atlanta Hawks’ Zaza Pachuli in 2010.
Time was not immediately available for comment.
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