Taste Closes in Decatur and Reopens at Phipps Plaza
Decatur Metro | January 9, 2014 | 10:33 am
Bo sent along this note from the folks at Taste on Church Street…
Dear Friends:
We hope you had a happy and healthy holiday season, and are looking forward to a great 2014!
We wanted to let you know that we have closed closed the Decatur Taste store this week, but we are happy to be well ensconced at Phipps Plaza, on the second floor above Tiffany’s. All of our holiday items are on sale, including our artisan flour sack towels, gourmet chocolates and hot chocolates, hot toddy mixes and other gourmet items.
We’ve got some great events coming up in in the next 2 months, and will be back in touch when those dates and time are firmed up.
Stay warm, and best to all! Hope to see you soon at Phipps!
Best,
Marcy
Photo courtesy of Atlanta Foodie Tours
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Well, that explains why they were so sparsely stocked over the holidays.
Had same thought. I enjoyed their many incarnations when they were well-stocked but am not surprised to hear they are moving.
Doesn’t explain why hey were so sparsely stocked over the 2012 holidays.
Over the last ?8? years, I have never understood when they were in transition from one incarnation to another. But they often seemed about to close for lack of merchandise and then they would spring back up.
I get sad when establishments I like leave us for another part of Atlanta, e.g. Taste, e.g. Watershed. Somehow the symbiosis of seller/consumer wasn’t in balance. I’m change averse…..unless something I like even better comes in. I have been in mourning for the original Freight Room for years but I have to admit that the Kimball House may finally be the ticket for that spot.
Can I miss them if I have never set foot in their store? Just what is an artisan flour sack towel? Of course, my wife says I will never be confused for being metrosexual, so that that may have something to do with it.
“What is an artisan flour sack towel?”
I’m not familiar with that term, but we love guessing around here. I do know that a flour sack towel is so called because they were originally made from flour sacks. So, an artisan one could be one made from a flour sack that once contained artisan flour, or be a regular flour sack transformed into a towel by an artisan.
Interesting that their website has not been updated to reflect the change in location. Creating customer confusion may not be the best transition plan….
…and the space is already re-leased. New place reported to be ice cream or desert or some such thing.
Might even have fro-yo… We need more options of that. O.o
Are you serious or being tongue in cheek, like people quip about Trader Joe’s?
Given their target customer base and all of the high-end-oriented development occurring in that area of Buckhead, it seems like a good fit. I’m sure they’ll do well.
Is anyone else concerned that Decatur’s downtown has primarily become rows of bars and restaurants, with frozen yoghurt for the kids, aka an adult version of a college strip? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy going out sometimes and you’ve probably seen me bouncing around before. But after a conversation I had recently with one business owner friend in the area, I just wonder if many shops could make it in downtown without alcohol, whether it be attracting customers or covering their rent / overhead?
“I just wonder if many shops could make it in downtown without alcohol, whether it be attracting customers or covering their rent / overhead?”
I wonder the same thing. It has to be very difficult to make a go of brick and mortar retail if competing with online merchants.
Yes and no. I’m sure booze help pay the bills and they’re on every menu, but there are successful spots where that’s not the actual focus. I’m not in love with Noodle but the food is pretty good and always consistent which is why it stays in our rotation. It seems like people are opening spaces with unrealistic expectations simply because of the perceived affluence of the surrounding area. If the food/prices are right, a real restaurant can work, but not if it’s mediocre, (Hola) for example.
In my fantasy world there would be some way where foodie entrepreneurs wouldn’t have to quit their day jobs and could try their dream on before investing their life savings into a place that wouldn’t work. Make a permanent artist type market/kitchen (not truck) for food downtown, and allow the tenants to reserve it and change from week to week. One week let X restaurant entrepreneur rent it, the next Y, the next week Z, and let potential owners actually find out if they could manage it, and what people really thought of the food quality vs. prices before deciding to take the plunge.
Or you could just charge $9.50 for a glass of weird-named beer and watch people start lining up. I can’t wait til my new Smelly Sock Dirty Diaper beer makes it to the market next year, I will have a cult following.
Brianc: Good point about online competition, I also wonder if the commercial landlords want too much for rent. It seemed something similar happened with the formerly proposed second Candler Park Market location in Oakhurst.
Daydreamer: A couple locations are doing something similar in East Atlanta; running one restaurant during the day and a totally different one late-night. I can’t remember the names; anyone feel free to fill in the details.
Rogue has the Beard Beer brewed with yeast from the brewmaster John Maier’s beard, so you never know. Let me invest in said dirty nappy elixir before it hits the market.
Not to worry. The withdrawal of the Candler Park Market had nothing to do with commercial rents. Chalk it up to a development partnership that simply didn’t work out.
Soba morphs into the Octopus Grill at 10:00.
If you’re not joking, it better be Morelli’s moving in there.
Has the DM site been hacked or infected somehow? The weird random blue links in Rus’s comment also appeared in mine above until I edited it.
And now it appears to be back…
Nevermind what I just said about the links. Looks like it was some kind of extension that sneaked past my malware protection. Time to update all that good stuff.
It better be a mini-Walmart
Anyone been to the neo-head shop across the street?
I might have. Can’t exactly remember.
Went in Monday night with my brother, who needed whatever juice his e-cigarette burns. That seems to be, IMO, their big selling point – if you use an e-cig, they have all kinds of supplies.
(Other than that? Pipes and patchouli. )
Anyone confirm if Calle Latina is open or closed? Maybe this has already been discussed and I missed it. Hopefully just on holiday when I went by.
I’ve wondered the same thing. They’ve been closed every time I walked by the last month or two. I don’t see anything on their Facebook page, so maybe someone in the know has info.