Wild Wing Cafe in Dunwoody has closed. The restaurant, located in Ashford Place (4788 Ashford Dunwoody Road), opened in February 2015 and closed as of May 31, according to a post on the restaurant's Facebook page. When the restaurant opened, it replaced Romano's Macaroni Grill which had closed in August 2013.
Atlanta native Cecil Crowley and his wife Diane opened the chain's first location in Hilton Head, South Carolina in June 1990. Today based in Charlotte, Wild Wing Cafe includes 37 locations with three more coming soon, across eight states. Georgia, with fourteen locations, is the chain's largest market by store count.
Local entrepreneur and restaurant industry veterans Bipin Changela and Tiku Shroff opened the Dunwoody restaurant and planned to open additional units in McDonough, Kennesaw and Marietta. Shroff partnered with Sandip Patel and Sam Patel to open a McDonough restaurant in early 2017, but neither the Kennesaw nor Marietta outposts came to fruition.
Following its closure, Ashford Place still has two casual sit down restaurants: Chili's and Memphis BBQ Co.
As ToNeTo Atlanta has reportedly previously, Dunwoody has several new restaurants in the immediate pipeline including sit down options Buffalo Wild Wings, Atlanta Bread, North Italia, Grana, Superica, 26 Thai Kitchen & Bar and(the return of)P.F. Chang's, along with Super Chix, Chicken Salad Chick, Sweetgreen, and Panda Express, among others.
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