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After 14 years, Rumi’s Kitchen in Sandy Springs is getting a makeover. The Persian restaurant originated down the road in 2006 and moved to the present location (6112 Roswell Street) in 2012. Since then, further outposts have opened at Avalon, Colony Sq., Houston, and Washington, D.C. However mid-summer, all consideration is again on Sandy Springs because the area will get reimagined with an up to date look and new menus.
“I imagine in time you must replace every part so that you don’t get forgotten,” says founder and chef Ali Mesghali.
The doorways have been shut after dinner service March 23 and are slated to re-open this summer time. The revamped restaurant will function higher sound management, a much bigger kitchen, and elevated decor. Search for aged plaster partitions, marble inlay tables, and porcelain and hardwood flooring (as a substitute of concrete). Excessive-end chandeliers add to the elegant look.
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“It was time for a refresh after a lot put on and tear,” COO and wine director Stephen Kaplan says. “We utterly gutted the restaurant. This isn’t only a recent coat of paint. It’s going to be a brand-new restaurant.”
The open-air patios aren’t any extra. As a substitute, there will probably be three personal eating rooms slightly than two—one in every of which can function a solarium-style glass ceiling. “The patio area was proper by Roswell Street. It was very traffic-y and never very cozy. We needed to make it extra romantic and intimate,” he provides.
The meals choices will probably be expanded as effectively, incorporating Center Japanese flavors with the Persian specialties. Anticipate labne charred tomato and Wagyu Zabuton kabob. Entrees designed to be shared embody braised lamb neck and pomegranate quick rib.
“We’re redefining objects that weren’t promoting as a lot anymore,” Mesghali explains. “Once we first opened, nobody knew what Persian meals was. Now we need to broaden it past the kebabs and make it extra regional.”
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They’ll additionally start providing brunch on the weekends, like Rumi’s at Colony Sq. does. Choices could embody a Persian omelet (scrambled eggs with turmeric, tomato, and herbs, served with Sujuk sausage), shakshuka, steak and eggs with turmeric butter, and a Dutch child pancake with bitter cherry jam.
As well as, a brand new beverage menu will function 12 to 14 cocktails comparable to a Paper Aircraft with a Persian spin and a Calvados (French apple brandy)-based drink with orange blossom syrup. An expanded nonalcoholic record means nondrinkers can style the identical taste profiles sans alcohol. Chosen by Kaplan, who additionally serves as wine director, wines give attention to Center Japanese producers from Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, Armenia, and Georgia. These new menus deliver the Sandy Springs providing nearer to these out there on the different metro Atlanta areas.
“We’re making an attempt to be on the forefront of Center Japanese delicacies. We need to push it ahead. That requires fixed evolution,” Kaplan says.
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