The building at 128 E. Andrews Drive has had the lights back on for about a month. For years it held Chido & Padre's and The Blind Pig Parlour Bar, both run by Southern Proper Hospitality. Then, in the last days of December 2025, the group closed both of them. The building now belongs to Buckhead Brewing, which opened in early October with a sandwich counter, a full dinner menu and an arcade in the back.
Buckhead's dining calendar for the next six months follows the same pattern. The most-watched restaurant arrivals between now and late spring 2027 are taking rooms that other restaurants left within the past year. Phipps Plaza is getting a new tenant in the space Davio's held for 15 years. Buckhead Center is getting one of Atlanta's best-known chefs in the space Brio Tuscan Grille used to fill. The changes are happening at addresses Buckhead residents have been walking past for a decade.
Three Rooms, Three New Tenants
Here is how the three biggest changeovers line up as of November 2026:
| Address | Previous tenant | New tenant | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128 E. Andrews Dr NW, Buckhead Village | Chido & Padre's and The Blind Pig Parlour Bar, closed late December 2025 | Buckhead Brewing | Opened early October 2026 |
| Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Rd NE | Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse, closed Dec. 28, 2025 | Cvi.Che 105 | Listed for winter 2026 |
| Buckhead Center, 2970 Peachtree Rd | Brio Tuscan Grille | Linton's Bar and Grill and The Buttery | Planned for late spring 2027 |
The two closures that kicked this off came within days of each other at the end of 2025. Tomorrow's News Today reported the Southern Proper closures on December 31, and the same outlet put the Davio's closing at December 28, ending its 15-year run at Phipps Plaza. In both cases, a successor was named within weeks or months. The table also shows the order things will happen in. East Andrews filled first, Phipps comes next, and Peachtree Road at Buckhead Center comes last.
East Andrews Filled First
Buckhead Brewing is the only one of the three you can walk into today, and its founders went with a broad menu instead of one specialty. According to What Now Atlanta, the founders are brewmaster Kenny Driggers, Tim Campau and Atlanta native Reid Olsen, whose Olsen Hospitality Partners runs restaurant and airport-concession businesses. Tomorrow's News Today reported that the partnership began at Southernside Brewing Co., which looked set to brew custom beers for the Buckhead taproom.
The schedule on Buckhead Brewing's own site splits the day into parts:
- Overall hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., every day
- Weekday sandwich shop: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a turkey club, burrata caprese, prime rib, an Italian and buffalo chicken
- Dinner: Monday through Friday from 4 to 11 p.m., and all day on weekends, with burgers, a shrimp po' boy, a steak melt, wings, salads, hummus, rotisserie chicken and a kids' menu
- The Racoon Room: an arcade where games cost $1 a play, including Golden Tee, Mario Kart, Skee-Ball, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, Space Invaders, Pac-Man Battle Royale, pinball, Jet-Pong and foosball
Before the closures, the building held two separate Southern Proper concepts. The new lineup covers a weekday lunch counter, a family dinner spot and a game room, all under one roof at one address in Buckhead Village.
Phipps Plaza Is Next
The second changeover is a few minutes up Peachtree Road. In February, What Now Atlanta reported that chef Juan Chipoco's Cvi.Che 105 had picked Phipps Plaza for its Atlanta debut. The Peruvian restaurant plans to serve ceviches, tiraditos, sushi rolls, lomo saltado and handcrafted cocktails.
On October 30, The Infatuation put Cvi.Che 105 on its list of Atlanta restaurants opening winter 2026. For Phipps regulars, the change is easy to picture. A Northern Italian steakhouse that held its corner of the mall since roughly 2010 gives way to a Peruvian seafood menu built around raw fish and citrus.
Retail at Buckhead Village is on the same winter schedule. Metro Atlanta CEO reported in October that Vince planned a boutique of about 2,400 square feet next to Billy Reid, with a winter 2026 opening. The brand's chief commercial officer, Jill Norton, said she was excited to join the village's community and retailer mix.
Buckhead Center Closes Out the Sequence
The last changeover in the sequence has the deepest Buckhead roots. Rough Draft Atlanta reported in September that James Beard award-winning chef Linton Hopkins and Hopkins & Company will open Linton's Bar and Grill in the former Brio Tuscan Grille space at Buckhead Center, 2970 Peachtree Road. They will also bring back their bakery-cafe, The Buttery, next door. What Now Atlanta reported the same late spring 2027 target.
It is a homecoming. Hopkins and his wife and business partner, Gina, opened Restaurant Eugene at The Brookwood on Peachtree Road in 2004. Holeman & Finch followed four years later in the same complex. Eater Atlanta covered Restaurant Eugene's closing in August 2019. Holeman & Finch left Buckhead in 2020 and reopened at Colony Square in Midtown in 2023. Rough Draft notes that the success of those two Buckhead restaurants earned Hopkins the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef: Southeast award in 2012 and led to the formation of Hopkins & Company. The group already runs H&F Bottle Shop in Buckhead.
The Buttery is coming back too. According to Rough Draft, it closed in 2024 after four years in the Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood.
Hopkins described Linton's to Rough Draft as a casual neighborhood place, and the plans support that. The weekday lunch menu has sandwiches and salads. For after work, there are martinis, calamari and tuna tartare on the patio, and steak dinners are by reservation. The restaurant and The Buttery will share a patio overlooking Peachtree Road, and The Buttery will have its own entrance and serve coffee, pastries, breads, croissant sandwiches and grab-and-go meals starting in the morning.
The landlord has a reason to want them there. Buckhead Center is a two-building office property owned by CP Group and Cohen & Steers, and it is in the middle of a renovation. CP Group founding partner Chris Eachus told Rough Draft that Linton's and The Buttery fit the company's goal of making the complex feel more connected to the neighborhood. In practice, an office complex on Peachtree Road is betting on a bakery that opens in the morning and a patio facing the street to bring in people who don't work there.
Peachtree Road Picked Up a Newcomer, Too
High Noon Brunchery moved to Buckhead from Douglasville this summer. Rough Draft Atlanta listed it under "Now Open" in its August openings roundup, and the AJC described the new home as a prominent spot on Peachtree Road. Unlike the restaurants above, it relocated from outside the city instead of replacing a Buckhead closure. It also lands on the same corridor where Linton's will open next spring.
Your Buckhead Dining Calendar, in Order
For anyone planning dinners and weekend lunches from now through next spring, the sequence works out like this:
- This week: Buckhead Brewing on E. Andrews Drive for a weekday sandwich, a weekend dinner or a few rounds in the Racoon Room, and High Noon Brunchery on Peachtree Road for a late-morning meal.
- This winter: Cvi.Che 105 at Phipps Plaza and Vince at Buckhead Village, both on winter 2026 schedules.
- Late spring 2027: Linton's Bar and Grill and The Buttery at 2970 Peachtree Road, with a shared patio overlooking Peachtree Road.
If you've been following the trail work around the commercial core, these openings fall along the same stretch of Peachtree Road and Buckhead Village. Our Buckhead neighborhood page keeps the bigger picture in one place.
When we talk with Buckhead homeowners, the block-by-block details matter: which corner is getting new life, and which patio will be full next spring. If you're weighing a move within Buckhead, or adding an Emerald Coast retreat for weekends, Destin Sells Destin can walk you through how these Peachtree Road and East Andrews changes affect the streets around them. Find Your Emerald Coast Home, and keep your Buckhead table reservations too.
