Local burger joint opening in Tucker.
Village Burger plans to open a new location in Tucker later this summer. The restaurant, which replaces The Tucker Fountain on Main Street in downtown Tucker, will be the third location for the local restaurant. The original Village Burger opened in place of a former Bruster's in Dunwoody in 2010. A second Village Burger opened in Johns Creek during the summer of 2014 in a former Yoforia.
The Tucker Fountain, which had been a popular Main Street eatery since 2005, closed last month and has since reopened on Lilburn/Stone Mountain Road inside the Smokerise Shell station.
The Tucker Fountain space has a long history in the community having been previously occupied by Fountain Drugs and Tucker Coffee Club in the 1960s. Mike Holcomb, an Atlanta native and owner of The Tucker Fountain, made some upgrades to the space but was somewhat limited in what he as a single operator could financially handle.
The owners of Village Burger will reportedly invest heavily in the space with plans to renovate the building itself in addition to the dining area and a completely new kitchen.
The Fountain featured a menu of assorted burgers, Sabrett hot dogs, BBQ and Mayfield ice cream. Village Burger is somewhat similar. Village Burger's menu focuses largely on assorted burgers (including turkey & veggie) along with chicken sandwiches and tenders, salads, frozen custards, beer and wine.
Village Burger joins a growing list of Main Street eateries including The Local No. 7 and M572 in addition to mainstay Matthews Cafeteria.
Just north of Main Street, on Hugh Howell Road, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Magnolia Room Cafeteria have both opened since the first of the year. North Carolina-based Cook-Out, a wildly popular fast food burger joint, also opened on Hugh Howell Road last year.
While parking issues were cited by Holcomb in his decision to close, hopefully Village Burger can find success in the space even if valet parking has not made its way to Tucker the way it has to other OTP cities like Alpharetta.
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