After fire, Public Kitchen & Bar reopens while Franklin's starts
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 another whose front glass doors were smashed in. This month, the sun appears to be rising at long last ...