

rated 3.5 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked 242 of 3456 restaurants in Atlanta. “But for now, we will concentrate on navigating our Rogers Ave locations through the continued fallout of COVID-19.” Gladys Knights Chicken & Waffles Concepts, Atlanta: See 853 unbiased reviews. “As our closure was strictly connected to landlord issues and the financial stress of COVID-19 we may look for another location in the future,” Garfield says. Mustipher noted in an Instagram post that the restaurant and bar may return in a new location, “as soon as we can.” Garfield confirmed that the team hoped to come back, although weathering the economic strain from the pandemic at Mo’s and Any Thing come first. In March, Felix left the restaurants altogether, Garfield confirms to Eater.

Original founder Michael Jacobsen left the business in 2019 and Felix stepped down as co-owner but remained onboard as chef while new owner William Garfield took over the restaurants. The restaurant’s ownership has changed hands in recent years. Both the Painkiller - a rum, coconut cream, and pineapple concoction - and the bar’s Rum Punch, featuring allspice liqueur, guava, and lime, will reappear on PLG bar Any Thing’s menu. The rum bar at Glady’s also drew its own crowds: Bar director Shannon Mustipher’s rum-based cocktail creations were in high demand throughout the restaurant’s run. Glady’s has been in operation for seven years, serving up an acclaimed menu of jerk chicken and pepper shrimp crafted by former chef and previous co-owner Junior Felix. Following the closure, owner William Garfield will continue to run sister restaurant Mo’s Original - formerly known as Glady’s Jerk Center - and adjoining bar Any Thing, in Prospect-Lefferts Garden. In the announcement, the restaurant cited the “financial stress of COVID-19” and “failed negotiations” with Glady’s’ landlord as reasons for the shutdown. The well-liked neighborhood restaurant and bar finished its last night of service on Sunday, June 28. Not only does wine for cats exist, it is now a competitive market, with two start-ups jostling for get-your-cat-fake-drunk supremacy.Crown Heights Caribbean spot Glady’s is shutting its doors permanently due to insurmountable COVID-19-related financial troubles, the restaurant’s ownership has announced.The 89th Academy Awards ceremony will be held next weekend, so Food 52 takes a look at the history of Oscar-recognized actors in food commercials.Co-founder Pete Goettner tells the Chicago Tribune that the start-up failed to secure the needed funds to continue February 28 will be its last day in operation. Table8, the three-year-old reservations app tailored to snagging last-minute reservations, will soon call it quits.A New York Post piece collects some of the reactions, which include straightforward sentiments like “What the f–k?!.” New Yorkers really love their Chick-fil-A, as evidenced by the collective WTF moment when one of the chicken chain’s Midtown locations temporarily closed yesterday.The James Beard Award-winning pastry chef regaled his Instagram followers with his experience chasing a thief five blocks through the streets of Manhattan after discovering the man had stolen eight DKAs, a signature pastry that’s an acronym for “Dominique’s Kouign Amann.” The culprit had already eaten two of them by the time Ansel and his crew caught up to him presumably, the six remaining Kouign Amann did not return to the pastry case. Cronut King Dominique Ansel has many talents, and crime-fighting is now one of them.Eater Chicago reports Tanabe is the hired gun at Barrio, a “Mexican robata bar” that will fuse the food of Tanabe’s Japanese and Mexican heritages. Frequent Top Chef contestant Katsuji Tanabe - who operates MexiKosher locations in New York and Los Angeles - is heading to Chicago to helm an entirely new concept.

(As Eater Atlanta reported, Hankerson was charged in an IRS raid for "stealing over $650,000 in both sales and withholding tax.") Hankerson is no longer affiliated with the brand, which now operates two locations in the Atlanta area. In August 2016, Knight sued her son Shanga Hankerson, who founded the restaurants, in order to have her name and likeness removed from the mini-chain after it ran into legal troubles in June of that year.
