Julia LeRoy partners with owners of Fellini’s Pizza and La Fonda Latina restaurants for new fried chicken joint.
LeRoy’s Fried Chicken is opening in West Midtown, according to Covered Dish’s James Oxendine.
The “fried chicken stand” will open under Julia LeRoy (former Bookhouse Pub chef) and Clay Harper and Mike Nelson, owners of the Fellini’s Pizza and La Fonda Latina restaurants.
LeRoy first collaborated with Harper and Nelson on Three on The Tree — a gourmet frozen yogurt concept — where LeRoy served as the “guest confectioner.”
Located at 1021 Howell Mill Road, the space LeRoy’s Fried Chicken will take was originally rumored to open as a sandwich or yogurt concept under the Fellini Restaurant brand, LeRoy excluded (she was rumored to act as executive chef for Patrick La Bouff’s new 905 Juniper concept).
In an interview with Oxendine, LeRoy explained the new concept as a “take-away-only fried chicken stand.”
LeRoy told Oxendine the chicken stand will only use natural local chickens (from Springer Mountain Farms) — sounds a lot like the fried version of Delia Champion’s recently opened East Atlanta Village chicken sausage stand.
Subject to change, other menu items will include “coleslaw, mac ‘n’ cheese, collards, biscuits and hand-cut fries as well as fried chicken hearts and chicken livers.”
LeRoy’s Fried Chicken is slated to open late June.
For the rest of James Oxendine’s interview, click here.
LeRoy’s Fried Chicken
1021 Howell Mill Road NW
Atlanta GA, 30318
