What Should Go Here?: Australian Bakery Café
Why can't the EAV hang on to a breakfast place?
When it comes to an everyday breakfast place, the EAV can't seem to hang on to a neighborhood favorite.
Candler Park has the Flying Biscuit Café; Reynoldstowm has Home Grown; Kirkwood has Le Petit Marché, and Grant Park has Ria's Bluebird.
But here in East Atlanta, we haven't been as lucky.
First, there was the Good News Café — where My Sister's Room is now.
But the couldn't-be-bothered attitude of a mostly surly wait staff, coupled with ho-hum food wasn't a winning recipe for success. So it closed.
Then there was Honey's Kitchen in the storefront on the southwestern corner of Flat Shoals and Glenwood avenues. The food was good but internal squabbling between the eatery's business partners led to its closure.
The most recent hope came by way of the Land Down Under.
Mark Allen and business partner Neville Steel, who come from opened the Australian Bakery Café opened up in 2004 at 463 Flat Shoals.
The pair, who also operate a sister location in Marietta Square, had a pretty long run in East Atlanta.
But after eight years, the East Atlanta spot closed last year when its lease wasn't renewed.
Now, the spot sits empty.
Would it be a good spot for another breakfast place or should something else go there?
What's your vision for this vacancy?
Stacie Jean Antich-Rodriguez
2:14 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012
Looks like the space is already taken.
"After eight years in the East Atlanta Village the Australian Bakery will be closing its doors at the end of the year. Proprietor Mark Allen says the business is financially sound, but the lease of the premises will not be renewed for another year. Mr. Allen has been told that the East Atlanta Animal Clinic will be expanding into that space."
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