Mule Train

What it is

Mule Train is a restaurant at 87 Broad Street SW in South Downtown, in the building that once held Miller’s Rexall Drug Store. It opened on Sept. 30, 2026. Mike and Shyretha Sheats run it after nearly a decade of cooking as The Plate Sale, a pop-up supper club. The name nods to a family gathering spot in Oglethorpe, Georgia, and to the mule train of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

Food and drink

The menu is seasonal Southern cooking built on Georgia farms, with simple treatments of vegetables and whole cuts of meat. Reporters have pointed to aged pork from a yakitori grill and candy roaster squash with a marigold vinegar lacquer. The bar keeps cocktails tightly focused, with classic sours, highballs and stirred drinks, plus natural wine.

The room

It is a roughly 40-seat dining room with walnut walls, blue seating and a view into the kitchen.

Before you go

Reservations go through Resy. The Mule Train website lists Wednesday through Friday, 12 to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 8 p.m., starting Oct. 1.

Parking

Closest free parking is South Downtown - Redbud Lot (165 Mitchell St SW), about a 2-minute walk — the first two hours are free, courtesy of South downtownATL. It is one of four South Downtown lots offering two hours of free parking across 315 spaces; beyond two hours, normal rates apply. Elm and Redbud have a four-hour limit; for longer visits, the South Downtown - Dogwood Lot is the only one of the four without it.