Restaurant and lounge sets its sights on completing construction, files necessary permits.
Scene Café, which promises to be part restaurant, lounge, café and office, is more than a year past its scheduled opening.
The restaurant and lounge located across the street from the Civic Center, at 150 Pine Street, was going to open its café in November of last year, according to Samuel Michael Teklé, Scene Café co-owner.
The restaurant and lounge in its entirety was slated to open last January, Teklé told What Now Atlanta when we broke the news of its opening in July 2010.
But all we’ve heard is crickets until now.
Teklé filed a permit with City of Atlanta this fall to convert the space (part grocery store, part warehouse) to a restaurant. It’s costing at least $25,000 to finish the conversion.
According to city records, the restaurant’s owners are close to securing approval for the permit.
Although it has yet to open, the Atlanta restaurant has made quite a spectacle of itself.
Unfinished for more than a year, the building’s strange shape causes passersby to look twice while traveling Piedmont Avenue between Downtown and Midtown.
Here’s to hoping for a view of lights, cars and patrons in the very near future instead of just an architecturally bizarre building.
For more on Scene’s concept, click here.
