Busy Bee Cafe To Open Second Location

ATLANTA, GA — Busy Bee Cafe, the iconic soul food restaurant home to some of Atlanta's most-loved fried chicken, is opening a second location.

The restaurant, a mainstay on what's now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive since 1947, announced the opening of a second downtown Atlanta location over the weekend on Facebook. The post linked to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article breaking the news.

According to the article, the new Busy Bee will be at 111 Trinity Ave. It is scheduled to be open early next year. It will be much larger than the original location, where lines out the door sometimes mean waits of a couple of hours to get inside.

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The Trinity Avenue location will have nearly 200 seats — almost four times as many as the original, according to the AJC. It also will plate some "different infusions" of the Busy Bee classics and have a limited cocktail menu.

Opened by Lucy Jackson in 1947, Busy Bee Cafe was a favorite dining spot for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and has fed the likes of President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders during their visits to the city.

Photo courtesy Busy Bee Cafe