Lucian Books and Wine, a wine bar and bookshop that also serves foodstuff, options to open up in mid-May in Buckhead’s new Modera apartment constructing at 3005 Peachtree Road at the intersection with Pharr Road.
Pratt Institute graduate Katie Barringer, previously of Go over Guides in Inman Park, and sommelier Jordan Smelt, Cake & Ale’s previous wine and beverage director, are the entrepreneurs. The spot is impressed by British artist Lucian Freud and demonstrates their individual “fervent interests.” Barringer and Smelt stated the concept to the Reporter.
1st of all, what do you have in thoughts for the wine bar?
Smelt: It will be in the neighborhood of 250 bottles when we open up. You will be ready to uncover chardonnay from the premier locations of the globe proper together with some thing sudden from Patagonia or South Africa or Australia. Most of the listing will be dominated by European areas, but there will be loads of points from the States, and all with organic and natural farming as a baseline.
A rotating list of by-the-glass possibilities will wholly flip above each individual two months. There will be grape-dependent spirits these types of as Brandy, Cognac, Armagnac — items that are intended to be sipped on after dinner as opposed to a comprehensive-on mixology software, and an abbreviated aperitif menu that will be saved quite uncomplicated and thoroughly clean.
You’re going to have “thoughtful and tasty meals.” What does that indicate?
Smelt: Our chef is Brian Hendrickson, [an] alum of Cakes & Ale. In a related way to Cakes & Ale you will see some Mediterranean influences. We’re likely to open with a daytime menu from when we open at 11 until eventually 4 p.m. — gentle treats that pair perfectly with wine, so you can have a glass though you browse in the bookstore, and you can piece with each other a mild lunch out of that as perfectly. We do have programs for a lunch plan but that will most likely not come till fall. Our supper menu will start off at 4 p.m.
Barringer: We want a modest concise menu ranging from elevated bar treats to full-measurement composed meal entrees. We’re striving to feel of the distinct activities that folks might occur to Lucian for. It could be a glass of wine, it could be a group of buddies, it could be a supper, so we’re seeking to provide a foods menu with possibilities for all of individuals scenarios — a assortment of sizing and composition.
Smelt: That’s part of the cause for starting dinner assistance at 4. You have selections from popping in for an early glass or two of wine, or a snack, to a total-on dinner.
Barringer: The very last point to say about the food is the sustainability variable. It’s thoughtful in the perception of the integrity of the components, and the seasonality and the tale of the food stuff prior to it having on the plate.
Can you describe what you are heading for in the reserve store?
Barringer: Nonfiction books with a sturdy emphasis on artwork architecture, style and photography. There will be a excellent assortment of cookbooks and wine and cocktail-similar publications, with a equilibrium of basic, recognizable names as properly as tiny generation artist books that you have never seen right before, and almost everything in between. There will also be a smaller sized variety of journals with a concentration on international titles on identical subjects.
Smelt: Katie is executing a mixture of recognized with unknown and I feel that perfectly sums up an component of the wine plan as perfectly. Some household names will be on the wine checklist, but also a great deal of little manufacturing wines that are unquestionably fabulous that people could not understand but ideally will arrive to enjoy as substantially as we do.
It is undoubtedly a position to explore and come across some things you’ve under no circumstances tasted or observed right before.
Barringer: Our preferred element of what we get to do is that course of action of introducing a thing and observing that method of discovery, and increasing their practical experience.
Smelt: It is extra exciting to introduce a new wine or new beverage to a person that hasn’t tried it prior to and just see their encounter light up. Whether it’s a wine or a e book, the sensation is the similar.