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Atlanta restaurant review: Public Kitchen & Bar delivers style over personality at Phipps Plaza

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Savannah restaurant groups waiting to see what impact they will feel from pandemic-related unemployment benefits stopping By Sean Evans | May 13, 2021 at 5:21 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 1:26 AM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - In recent months we’ve heard from Savannah’s tourism and hospitality industry about a workforce shortage, with some pointing out pandemic-related unemployment benefits as being one of the root causes. WTOC talked with restaurant groups, owners and local tourism indus...

On a Wednesday afternoon, Angela Yeo, owner of Le Café Gourmet, tamped down coffee grounds as a worker manned the cash register in the small Parisian-style cafe. Like many businesses lately, the downtown eatery is stretching to accommodate eager customers while being severely short staffed. Yeo and her husband are working with a skeleton crew of four, which isn’t enough to keep them open for their usual seven days a week — and barely gets them through their opening hours. As a result, ...

NW Gabbey For SavannahNow.com The last time anyone ate at The Public Kitchen & Bar was in mid-March, moments before the COVID pandemic hit. In July, I caught up with Jamie Durrence, managing partner of Daniel Reed Hospitality, whose properties and personnel had endured a summer month of more salt poured into an already raw wound: six restaurants closed due to the pandemic, one of which was destroyed during a night of civic unrest, another consumed in a kitchen fire, another burglarized, and ano...

For those craving a grass-fed burger or a fan favorite, shrimp and grits, your wait for the reopening of the Public Kitchen and Bar is almost over. The Public, located at the corner of Bull and Liberty streets, will reopen its doors to customers on Monday, Jan. 25, after being closed for seven months due to a kitchen fire.  That bit of good news isnt all thats happening food-wise at the Public Kitchens downtown location, however, as the familiar restaurant is flanked by two more offerings ow...