Plant Based Pizzeria, which last year became the first all-vegan pizzeria to open in Atlanta, is preparing to open a second metro location. The new restaurant, coming to Sandy Springs, is opening in a seemingly cursed restaurant space that has gone through at least seven different concepts in the past dozen or so years. Anchoring Huntridge Center at 8540 Roswell Road, the new eatery is located between Northridge Road and Hightower Trail, just south of the Chattahoochee River.
Since its opening, Plant Based Pizzeria has reportedly served pizza to celebrities such as Jermaine Dupri and Keri Hilson, as well as thousands of other vegans and "flexitarians" alike. The restaurant has an overall 4 1/2 star rating with more than 230 reviews on Yelp.com.
In addition to assorted pizzas, the restaurant also features several flatbreads, calzones and even a few burgers, which, like the "meat lovers pizza," are made with Beyond Meat products. The restaurant also features some more adventurous meat and cheese alternatives like "walnut meat" and "cashew cheese."
As we mentioned, Plant Based Pizzeria is at least the eighth eatery that will have occupied the anchor space in the multi-unit center along Roswell Road over the past several years. B Social Supper Club was the most recent occupant. Other previous occupants of the space include CasAgave, Rock 'N' Taco, Moderna, taqueria + teatro, The Old Crow Grill & Tavern, Foxy's Sports Bar & Chop House and Driggers Sports Grill, among others. [Rock 'N' Taco late last year "relocated" from Buckhead to the former Pastis space on Canton Street in Historic Downtown Roswell.
At least three different brokerages have leased the center, too, including Green-Koh Commercial Real Estate, Hale Retail Group and Perimeter Commercial Real Estate, among others.
Plant Based Pizzeria, like fellow vegan eatery "The Slutty Vegan," is a black-owned business. Pinky Cole started selling her trendy "slutty" burgers via Instagram during the summer of 2018, after which she eventually got a food truck to optimize efficiency. Cole opened the first Slutty Vegan brick and mortar location on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in southwest Atlanta in October 2018, and has since expanded the business to include a second location in Jonesboro and a third coming soon to Edgewood Avenue in southeast Atlanta.
Sources close to Plant Based Pizzeria indicate that it will open in "less than 60 days."
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