Italian bistro with handmade pastas & sharp cocktail program


























"Jerry and Krista Slater should be familiar names to longtime Atlanta diners. The duo ran Reynoldstown restaurant and cocktail hot spot H. Harper Station (now Muchacho) for years, before closing it in 2016 and moving to the Athens area. Now the couple owns and operates another beloved restaurant, the Expat on South Lumpkin. Coffee lovers were bereft in 2017 when Two Story’s Five Points location announced its closure, but there’s comfort in knowing the Expat makes a worthy successor. The menu steers towards Italian cuisine made with local ingredients, while the bar has national renown, thanks to barman Jerry Slater. Make sure to visit wine shop and tasting room the Lark on Prince, where sommelier Krista Slater walks customers through her selection of natural and minimal intervention wines. Check out the couple’s other Athens restaurant, Slater’s Steakhouse, also located in the Five Points neighborhood, and the Slater’s newest cocktail lounge Nighthawks in the Newtown neighborhood." - Sarra Sedghi

"The restaurant’s owners partnered with the Southern Foodways Alliance to present a cocktail-making series streamed on Instagram and Facebook Live, offering viewers guided tutorials and a schedule of upcoming virtual mixology sessions." - Beth McKibben

"Chef Savannah Sasser is now at the helm of The Expat in Athens, a venture by Jerry and Krista Slater of H. Harper Station." - Beth McKibben

"An all-day restaurant in Athens’ Five Points occupying the former Two Story Coffeehouse space, featuring a main dining room and an upstairs cocktail lounge with stirred cocktails, bar snacks, and vinyl records; Chef Savannah Sasser (formerly of Hampton + Hudson) is leading the kitchen." - Beth McKibben

"A soon-to-open restaurant and cocktail bar in the Five Points neighborhood is hosting a preview party to showcase chef-driven food and cocktails; the event, presented by the venue’s former H. Harper Station owners and featuring a chef with credentials from notable local restaurants, sells $30 tickets with 100% of proceeds benefiting a disaster-relief kitchen charity." - Beth McKibben