Thursday, December 27, 2012
Blue Tarp Brewing Company will celebrate its opening with a party at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Brick Store Pub. A keg of its first beer will be tapped.
Decatur's reputation as a beer Mecca strengthens with the opening of two new breweries--Three Taverns Brewing, and Blue Tarp Brewing Company. Blue Tarp will celebrate its opening at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at the Brick Store Pub. A keg of Blue Tarp's first beer will be tapped. Three Taverns is expected to open in the spring. The website Atlanta Cuisine talked to Blue Tarp founder Tom Stahl and Three Tavern founder Brian Purcell about their new businesses. Stahl said, My wife and I spent a lot of time at the Brick Store Pub and my father had been a builder in Decatur, so I knew the area well. We moved here in 2008 and finally found our current location in 2011 in the City of Decatur (which has been very accommodating).... Our plans are …
Monday, October 29, 2012
The owners of the Brick Store Pub plan to name it the Kimball House and open in spring 2013.
Good news for a section of Decatur that's had its ups and downs in recent years. The owners of the Brick Store Pub plan to open a restaurant/bar named the Kimball House in the old Decatur Depot on East Howard Street, near the Dairy Queen. The development has been talked about privately for months but Decatur Metro first reported it this morning with a statement from Dave Blanchard, one of the owners of the Brick Store and Leon's Full Service. The statement said, in part, Much has been done to improve the Atlanta drink scene in the last ten years, especially with beer and cocktails. We hope to contribute to this storyline and offer something new and old along the way. We hope to add to the culinary landscape and cook with the seasons while …
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
They even picked Natasha Trethewey "best local poet."
Creativing Loafing put out its annual Best of Atanta issue last week and Decatur warranted numerous mentions in the staff picks. Here they are: Best street character. Larkin Taylor-Parker, a student at Agnes Scott College student who enjoys playing her tuba in the street while wearing top hat and tux. Best reinvention of reading series. The Write Club, held the second Wedesday of each month at the Red Room at 627 E. College Ave. Best local poet. Her name is Nathasha Trethewey and she's the U.S. Poet Laureate. Best east/west grain bowl duo. The grain bowl at the Bakery at Cakes & Ale, along with Yet Tuh's barley bowl. Best legendary beer bar in your backyard. The Brick Store Pub. Best place for a first date. Leon's Full Service. Best …
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Five restaurants will battle for grilled cheese supremacy and raise money for SkaterAid.
Chefs from five Atlanta restaurants -- the Brick Store Pub, Cakes & Ale, H. Harper Station, Victory Sandwich, and Empire State South -- will go spatula to spatula Monday, Sept. 10, for the Great Decatur Grilled Cheese Off. The event has already sold out, though organizers are taking names for a waiting list in case of any last-minute dropouts. Tickets are $55 each and the action begins at 6 p.m. in the Brick Store Pub in Decatur. Proceeds will benefit SkaterAid, an organization that benefits the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children. Chefs will choose beers from local craft breweries and pair them with grilled cheese sandwiches. Organizers say the winner of the judges' panel will "take home a grilled cheese totem made by local artist Tom …
Monday, June 18, 2012
A week-long birthday party starts Sunday with a fundraiser to benefit the DeKalb History Center.
The Brick Store Pub will celebrate its 15th birthday next week, starting Sunday, June 24, with a reservations-only party. The event on Sunday will benefit the DeKalb History Center and only 100 tickets are being sold. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple. The party will include appetizers and special beers. The Joe Gransden Trio will perform and the history center's Athos Menaboni mural will be unveiled in the pub. The eggshell mural is now on loan to the Brick Store after hanging on the walls of two banks. The event will run 2 to 4 p.m. and the bar will reopen to the public at 5 p.m. To buy tickets, follow this link to a PayPal button or call 404-373-1088, extension 22. If you buy tickets, they will be held at the door. During the…
Friday, March 9, 2012
Decatur residents can come to the Brick Store Pub to discuss the city budget process.
This is a new way of feeling the public pulse. Decatur city officials are inviting residents to the Brick Store Pub from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. March 14 to talk with Andrea Arnold, an assistant city manager, about the city's budgeting process. This is a change. Normally, the city hears the voice of the people in legally required public hearings at city hall. The setting is formal, the atmosphere sleep inducing, the refreshments nonexistent. As the Decatur Minute says of the Brick Store meeting, This is your chance to find out how the budget process works and give your input. This is the first of three meetings using this new format. The next meeting will be held in April in Oakhurst and the third one will be at City Hall in May. Click here to…
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Part of the restaurants' proceeds will go to the program.
Decatur's Farm to School Program (DF2S) has been getting some good press lately. Atlanta magazine just ran an article (writtten by Decatur resident Deborah Geering) about farm to school programs in the region and mentioned the success in Decatur, saying In fact, the Decatur school district has been one of the metro area’s most proactive systems. At College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center, parent volunteers noticed the enriched Super Donuts served in the preschool’s cafeteria. Katherine Falen, whose son is now in the second grade, says, “It’s a very nutritious doughnut, but our concern was that our children were eating a doughnut for breakfast and were getting the wrong message. When they got out into the real world, the doughnuts …
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Arrests made in the burglary of a Sycamore Place residence.
The following information comes from Decatur Police Department reports. Decatur police investigated thefts from two downtown businesses – the Subway on East Ponce de Leon Avenue and Burnt Fork Barbecue on Church Street. Two males and a female, all appearing to be about 16 years old, entered the Subway about 10:50 a.m. Dec. 18. One of the youths grabbed a plastic container containing parking tokens off the counter and ran out the door. A short time later, police detained four suspects in the 400 block of Church Street. The man who reported the theft identified two suspects -- a female juvenile and an adult man. The juvenile was turned over to her mother and the man was charged with theft by taking and booked into the DeKalb County Jail. …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Best-selling authors from a range of genres will be wandering around Decatur over labor day as part of the sixth annual Decatur Book Festival.
if you're a bookworm, chances are good that a favorite author will be in Decatur during the Labor Day weekend at the sixth annual AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical. Among the festivals more than 300 authors are New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson of Georgia, author of Backseat Saints; National Book Foundation winner Karen Russell, named as one of the nation’s outstanding young writers and author of Swamplandia!; Guggenheim Fellow Clyde Edgerton; who has had five novels among the New York Times Notable Books; New York Times best-selling children’s author Gordon Korman, who wrote his first book when he was 12; Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Robert Olen Butler, whose latest novel is A Small Hotel; former …
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