Cold Beer
Permanently Closed
Stylish restaurant with patios, art, and craft cocktails
Stylish restaurant with patios, art, and craft cocktails
"Cold Beer was a stylish restaurant with two patios, including a rooftop, and an expansive dining room. It tapped into Kevin Gillespie’s love of art and architecture. The restaurant was closed in January as it no longer fit the demographic of the surrounding neighborhoods." - Beth McKibben
"Atlanta-based firm Ai3 designed chef Kevin Gillespie’s (Gunshow, Revival) latest restaurant along the Eastside trail to highlight his love of art, architecture, and nature. It’s the chef’s most ambitious and stylish restaurant yet. While the modern, minimalist interior may not appeal to everyone, the design behind Cold Beer is deeply personal for Gillespie, who describes the restaurant as “serene and simple.” Neutral tones in the dining room accentuate the natural light flowing through the two-story windows, while pops of color come from bright yellow trim, live plants, and several panels filled with preserved mosses and ferns above the bar. Perhaps the restaurant’s most striking and deliberately designed element is the large painting of a polar bear (Gillespie’s spirit animal) created by artist O.M. Norling for the chef. Entitled “A Recluse, the Journey, and a Curious Game of Skill and Chance”, the bear represents Gillespie, his life, and his recent tribulations, which includes a battle with renal cancer last year." - Beth McKibben
"Chef Kevin Gillespie describes his latest restaurant, Cold Beer, as the 'sophisticated sister' of his Glenwood Park restaurant, Gunshow. At 7,000 square feet and two stories, Cold Beer is the chef’s most ambitious and stylish restaurant yet." - Beth McKibben
"Cold Beer is Kevin Gillespie's largest and most ambitious restaurant to date, located along the Eastside Beltline next to the Edgewood Avenue bridge in Old Fourth Ward. It functions as a community gathering place with a menu of rotating dishes and cocktails, overseen by chef de cuisine Brian Baxter and bar director Mercedes O’Brien. The venue features a modern dining room with a 13-foot painting of a polar bear and two large patios. Open Tuesday - Sunday at 4 p.m., Cold Beer aims to capitalize on the vibrancy of the BeltLine." - Beth McKibben
"Kevin Gillespie plans to open his next restaurant, Cold Beer, at the Edge complex between Edgewood and Dekalb Avenues on the Eastside BeltLine in mid-2019." - Beth McKibben
