Candler Park resto to update interior with “reclaimed” bar.
Radial Café is under new ownership and is undergoing some changes.
Frank Bragg, former director of communications at Metrotainment Cafes, took over the café located at 1530 Dekalb Avenue late last year when the previous owner, Phil Palmer, took to London with his partner.
Bragg was the managing partner at Einstein’s Restaurant on Juniper Street in Midtown prior to becoming director of communications for parent-company, Metrotainment Cafes.
In an email Monday, Bragg told What Now Atlanta the Café’s renovation will utilize “reclaimed” and repurposed” materials.
“The walls are being finished with re-milled barn wood (from a barn we took down in northeast Georgia),” Bragg said. “The wood in the hallway is heart of pine flooring that come up from a home in southwest Atlanta.”
As for the rendering above, it’s pretty but it doesn’t do Bragg’s vision justice, he said.
“The look of the rendering is fairly ‘chic’ and that is not the feel it will have at all,” Bragg said. “I thank the architect for his swanky bar stools and fancy light fixtures, but that is not where I am headed.”
Radial Café, which first opened in 1999, has a “3-star Green Certification,” something the renovation compliments, according to Bragg.
So how’s Bragg doing as the new owner? Drop a line in the comments.
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