The next time you take a gallery hop around Savannah, you’ll have a new place to see artwork: Gallery Hop Atomica.
“We love puns around here,” said gallery manager, brewer, and self-proclaimed ‘master fermentation geek’ Chance Farago, “Like we had a potato dish and we called it ‘Hop Potato.’ We’re working on a little frozen pizza thing that we’re calling the ‘Hop Pocket.’
“It’s cheesy but we like it.”
Hop Atomica, a microbrewery and gastropub in Baldwin Park, opened last July at 535 East 39th Street in an area that guaranteed that it would cater almost exclusively to neighborhood residents. With the new exhibition component now integrated into the space, Farago is adding local artists to the menu.
The sun is shining, a light breeze rustles buds on leafless branches, and a family out for a Saturday stroll takes in music lilting through their neighborhood.
In the parking lot, a man sells handcrafted cutting boards, a woman sells her own variety of sugar scrubs. An array of artisans and craftspeople are set up outside Hop Atomica brewery selling their wares at the establishment’s recently launched monthly farmers market.
Hop Atomica hosts its next market on Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. with some of Savannah’s finest organic growers, small-batch food-makers, and independent craftspeople.
“Market day helps bring our neighborhood together,” said Mary Watson, the brewery’s executive chef and general manager. “We’ve been doing it about four months now, and it’s nice to see how people turn out to support these independent vendors. Of course, it’s also great we have live music on market day.”
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