Ink & Elm Tavern Coming to Emory Village
Decatur Metro | September 19, 2012 | 2:38 pm
Louis points out that there’s info floating around the interwebs that a new tavern is coming to Emory Village next year. Here’s a blurb from a PR site about the new spot, “Ink & Elm”…
Ink & Elm: Located in Emory Village, Ink & Elm is a 7,000 square foot tavern, lounge and dining room that celebrates the deep history of Atlanta’s Druid Hills neighborhood, including Frederick Law Olmsted, the neighborhood’s designer who is also behind NYC’s Central Park and the neighborhood’s Olmsted Linear Park. The location provides the perfect spot for Druid Hills’ residents as well as Emory faculty and students to gather, socialize and dine. The dark and cozy design for the tavern is loosely based on a turn of the century landscape design studio, while the dining room takes into account Olmsted’s approach toward garden and landscape design with a light and airy mood. Ink & Elm is expected to open early next year.
Urbanspoon and Yelp have the address as 1577 N. Decatur Road, which puts it down near the Panara/CVS end of Emory Village.
Rendering courtesy of Eater
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It’s going into the spaces that were occupied by Jaggers and Emory Florist.
Interesting. I assumed this was going in to the old Jagger’s/Park Bench location smack dab in the middle of the strip… Maybe the dry cleaner’s is going away?
Not sure what kind of map you’re looking at, but 1577 is the old Jagger’s/Park Bench space. It’s about time something went in there, though I’m pretty sure that “Ink and Elm” won’t be what I was hoping for. Then again, the only way I’d be happy with a bar at Emory Village is if they knocked down Panera and recreated the old Dooleys, or if they resurrected the Taco Mac shack that used to be behind the gas station
Are you sure that was Taco Mac and not the Flower Pot sandwich place I remember being somewhere in the village when I attened EU? That was pre legal drinking days in DeKalb Co!
I don’t know about any Flower Pot sandwich place so if you’re not just trippin’ on some bad acid and it really existed, that was before my time. I can tell you with 100% certainty that when I moved here for my own Emory experience in 1994, there was a Taco Mac behind the BP on North Decatur at Oxford. I’m assuming it was the second Taco Mac location to open after the original on Highland Avenue. It was certainly before they started building those shiny new family-friendly disasters.
And it seems like just yesterday that we were there swilling MGD (or was it Busch?) after a softball game and arguing over our team name for the next season when we saw the Lil Dino’s sign across the street advertising $2 Pitchers. Thus was born both our team name and the price-matching special we talked the Taco Mac folks into giving us which probably played at least a small role in that location’s demise…
Ha. Junderscore is a youngster. The place that baked its bread in flower pots was called Good Old Days. I worked there for about 5 minutes in the summer of ’77. Don’t know when it went away, I was going to college elsewhere and only here for the summer.
Ah cool, thanks. Does anyone know why it’s taken that space so long to fill? Seems like it should have been a new bar/tavern for a long time, but instead just sat vacant.
Don’t know any specifics but I’d imagine it was a combination of an (allegedly) difficult landlord, infrastructure problems with the old building and the various plans and proposals for Emory Village that died slow deaths, making it difficult to lease the space.
Yeah, I’d have to agree J_T. The landlord for that property has a tough reputation around rental rates, and his desire to change the overall look of the property. I think that’s primarily why it’s been so hard to fill that large space.
Now we know where the ghosts from the new WalMart eat dinner.
Hah! Food and… spirits?
ah fond memories of flower pot sandwiches, bands and summer evenings….
and the Lullwater Tavern (now Panerra)
Ah, yes, the Lullwater Tavern. Many fond memories. One evening after work, I stopped by for a beer and sandwich and found my sister-in-law bartending — and one of the Kroger cashiers from across the street having a few pick-me-ups at the bar. She got her last one in a ‘to go’ cup, saying as she left “Well, time to start my shift.” As she walked out the door, my sister-in-law said to everyone else, “Folks, if you’re going Krogering tonight, ya better count your change.”
Was Lullwater Tavern the place that became Dooley’s? Before it was rebuilt as St. Louis Bread Company, now Panera?
Before Panera/St.L there was the glorious Johnny Harris.
Yep. And a gas station before that.
Dude. I waited tables at the Lullwater Tavern in the late 80s-early 90s, and I’m fairly certain I was on shift when that happened. Ah, memories!
Wow. So it really did happen and wasn’t just a figment of my imagination? Relief!
Yes Good Ole days…and they were! But that changed to JR Crickets and yes the Lullwater Tavern was awesome. But I’m sure none of you remember the Heroes sandwich shop …do you? Or the movie theatre that used to be at Emory Village. I saw Star Wars there and Alien before it burned down…good times!