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Chef Kevin Gillespie Explains Meaning of "Gunshow" Eatery Name

Homage to times with his dad.

GLENWOOD PARK — When celebrity Chef Kevin Gillespie announced his planned departure from Woodfire Grill last year to open an eatery here, residents were ecstatic. After all, Gillespie is a Top Chef alum and widely celebrated in the culinary arts world with multiple nominations  for the James Beard Foundation’s “Rising Star Chef of the Year” award and a nomination for Food & Wine's “The People’s Best New Chef." And he's a resident of neighboring Ormewood Park to boot. So fans are looking forward to the eatery, which has a planned spring opening in the retail space at the corner of Garrett Street and Bill Kennedy Way. What has people scratching their heads, though, is the choice of name for the restaurant: Gunshow. The Atlanta native …

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Asylum Takes New Direction

East Atlanta bar/restaurant has new majority owner and niche focus, but liquor license issue remains.

EAST ATLANTA — Since opening in July of last year in what had been the former Echo Lounge-turned-Icehouse space, the Asylum has suffered from something of an identity crisis. It's not the go-to place for the young and restless hipster set; that's 529 EAV. Nor is it the neighborhood watering hole for indie music devotées; that's the EARL. It's also not trying out-Mary Mary's. What the Asylum is trying to be is a place for everyone. The bar has undergone several behind-the-scenes transformations in recent months, including bringing in a new majority owner, a new chef and general manager. Meanwhile, it still is entangled in a row with Neighborhood Planning Unit-W over its liquor license. City codes allow an establishment to have live …

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Spring Opening Date for Gunshow

Kevin Gillespie's latest venture is to feature seasonally changing menu, with a locally-sourced focus.

The planned opening for Gunshow, the new restaurant venture of Atlanta Celebrity Chef Kevin Gillespie is early spring of 2013. Gunshow will be opening in the retail space at the corner of Garrett Street and Bill Kennedy Way in Glenwood Park. Gillespie, who lives in Ormewood Park, is leaving Woodfire Grill at the end of the year, to focus on Gunshow. "Gillespie plans to create a home-like atmosphere where guests can eat what they wish as he prepares dishes from refined to rustic and sends them out to the small dining room," his spokeswoman, Suong Nguyen, said in a statement. "Medium-sized plates will be delivered as they are ready and offered to the guests who may choose what they’d like. This unique-to-Atlanta service approach emphasizes …

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Kevin Gillespie to Open New Restaurant in Glenwood Park

"Gunshow" to take retail spot at corner of Garrett Street and Bill Kennedy Way.

Kevin Gillespie, the Atlanta chef who built a loyal foodie following at Woodfire Grill off Cheshire Bridge Road is opening a new restaurant in Glenwood Park. The "Top Chef" alum, as Atlanta Magazine reported, is leaving Woodfire Grill at the end of the year to head a new venture. "Gunshow" as the new eatery is named, will take up the empty retail space at the corner of Garrett Street and Bill Kennedy Way in Glenwood Park. A Gillespie spokeswoman confirmed the restaurant is coming to Glenwood Park but added final details are still being worked out. Gillespie told Atlanta Magazine he wants the Gunshow atmosphere to be closer to who he is as a chef. "There’s no concept behind it," he told the magazine. "I’m just opening a new restaurant, and …

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Would You Spend $100 for a Pizza Pie?

East Atlanta's Asylum restaurant has a pizza pie on the menu for $100.

To some folks, you'd have to be nuts to pay $100 for a 12-inch pizza pie. Perhaps it's fitting, then, that the "Crazy Capobianco" pizza is one of the offerings at Asylum, the restaurant and bar that opened July 13 in the old Echo Lounge-turned-Icehouse space in East Atlanta Village. Named for Franky Capobianco, Asylum's chef, the pie is his brainchild, Jonathan Hammond, the restaurant's general manager, told East Atlanta Patch. Capobianco, a New Orleans native, was the chef for Nawlin's, the now-closed eatery that operated in My Sister's Room, the EAV's lesbian bar. " 'It's called the Asylum, so we should do something crazy,' " Hammond recounted Capobianco as saying. So the meal was born with an ingredients list so decadent as to make …

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Poblanos With a Side of Philanthropy

Agave gives back to the community every chance it gets

Dining out for a cause. Sure, It’s nothing new, and many charitable restaurants in the city give back from time to time, but others do it so consistently and whole-heartedly that we just have to recognize them for their good deeds. Agave in Cabbagetown gives tens of thousands of dollars each year to worthy organizations. Last year, more than 200 charities benefited from the restaurants’ gifts, whether it was a gift card for an auction item at an event or a “dine-out” night where proceeds from patrons’ tickets go to the organization. On Wednesday, Agave hosted a dine-out event for Horizon Theatre Company, the beloved Little Five Points landmark known for bringing exciting, contemporary plays to the city and cultivating new artists and …

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