March delivered a churn month for metro Atlanta dining: roughly 14 openings landed across the region, and the closure column very nearly kept pace. For every comeback story there was a farewell, and a few large, well-located spaces suddenly came back on the market.
The most downtown-relevant debut was the Jagger Suite, a rooftop bar that opened March 5 atop the Moxy Atlanta Downtown at 329 Marietta St. NW. Run by The Restaurant People — the Miami-based group behind Rosa Sky in Miami and Nube in Fort Lauderdale — the indoor-outdoor space leans hard into spectacle, headlined by a 12-foot-tall "disco unicorn" sculpture and immersive lighting. It adds a late-night anchor to a stretch of Marietta Street that keeps gaining reasons to linger after dark.
Elsewhere in the city, the month's openings ranged from polished to comfort-driven. Ashland, the new signature steak-and-sushi restaurant at the renovated Loews Atlanta Hotel in Midtown, opened in early March. New Orleans cocktail bar Barrel Proof landed in Westside Provisions District, and Rosso — a self-described red sauce joint — took over the former Alici space on Monroe Drive. Inman Park welcomed Mushi Ni's first full-service restaurant, an upgrade from its Chattahoochee Food Works stall with a bigger menu and full bar.
The comeback file was busy too. Rumi's Kitchen reopened its original Sandy Springs home, and Eats returned from its October closure on Ponce de Leon Avenue, resurfacing inside Wild Heaven West End with longtime manager Levi Nichols still running the kitchen. El Tesoro also reopened nearby in West End. Farther out, Fogo de Chao cut the ribbon on a third Georgia location at the Mall of Georgia, Stillfire Brewing packed its new Smyrna taproom, and chef Todd Richards debuted barbecue-influenced Que-riosity in McDonough.
The losses stung, though. BrewDog abruptly closed its Krog District location on March 9 following the brand's U.S. bankruptcy and sale, and Hudson Grille went dark in Little Five Points — two big vacancies in high-visibility spots. Rising Son ended a 10-year run in Avondale Estates as its lease expired, Sidechick wound down in Decatur after more than eight years, and Sublime Donuts closed its Brookhaven outpost while keeping the original 10th Street shop by Georgia Tech open. Just Loaf'n shuttered its East Atlanta Village po'boy shop, citing the slow economy and construction issues, though its Grant Park location carries on.
For downtown watchers, the scoreboard matters less than the pattern: hotel-anchored concepts and operators with staying power keep betting on the core, even as the broader market keeps culling. The Jagger Suite joins a growing roster of downtown openings timed to catch the city's biggest summer in three decades.
Original reporting: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2026-04-02)
