Ruby Chow's, the Asian-American restaurant that has operated just off the Eastside Beltline since 2020, is opening a second Atlanta location at 739 Trabert Ave. in Berkeley Park. The restaurant is targeting summer 2027 and will sit steps from the Westside Beltline in Northwest Atlanta, on a street that has already collected breakfast and brunch cafe The Daily, Floral Park Market, and Monday Night Brewing's The Grove.
General manager Brian Seo, whose resume includes 26 Thai, Nan Thai and the Loews Hotel, told Rough Draft Atlanta that owner Mike Blum spent the past two years scouting sites for a second Ruby Chow's. Blum's other Atlanta ventures include Yum Buns, Chow Baby, Miso Izakaya, Le Fat and Ton Ton. Seo said the group was among the first restaurant or retail operators approached about the new Beltline extension, and pointed to the trail's track record as the reason Trabert Avenue won out.
The Trabert restaurant is being designed to be more visible than the original. The Old Fourth Ward location sits at the corner of North and Glen Iris avenues and, in Seo's telling, hides in plain sight; the new building will carry glass across the entire front facade. It will also be larger, with a more developed bar program and room set aside for private events and chef's table dinners. Seo said to expect off-menu dinner series, pop-ups and ticketed programming built around occasions such as Lunar New Year, part of what he described as an ongoing effort to engage the community and celebrate Asian-American heritage.
This is not the group's first restaurant west of downtown. It opened the Vietnamese restaurant Le Fat along the Marietta Street Artery in 2015; that restaurant closed in 2024. Chef Guy Wong, who opened the original Ruby Chow's with Blum in February 2020, had built his reputation at Miso Izakaya, which ran on Edgewood Avenue from 2009 until 2018 near what would become the Eastside Beltline. Several Miso dishes carried over to Ruby Chow's, including the shoyu tamago, a Japanese soy sauce egg.
Ruby Chow's opened a month before the pandemic closed dining rooms nationwide, and still found an audience under a name borrowed from the late Chinese-American restaurateur, Seattle activist and politician Ruby Chow. Wong is no longer involved in day-to-day operations. Chef Phillip An joined in July and will run culinary operations at both restaurants. Earlier this year the group closed Miso Ko and Ton Ton Ramen Bar after nearly a decade in the Ponce City Market food hall; NoriFish and Okiburo take over those two stalls on Aug. 28. Wong now owns Big Boss Chinese on 10th Street in Midtown.
Original reporting: Rough Draft Atlanta (2026-08-26)
