Watershed Comes to Buckhead May 24

Watershed, the Decatur restaurant well known for its southern fried chicken and brunch, will reopen May 24 in Buckhead, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday.

The restaurant will operate out of the Brookwood building at 1820 Peachtree Road.

operated for more than a decade out of a converted service station on West Ponce de Leon Avenue. that location Aug. 6.

The restaurant served a modern version of traditional Southern food and helped for out-of-towners.

The AJC said:

You’ll also find a new menu at Watershed on Peachtree. [Managing partner Ross] Jones confirmed that chef Joe Truex remains at the helm and “has been working on the menu all winter long.” She says that they are not completely reinventing the menu, but that they’ve opened the door for creativity. The menu will change more frequently and will be more inventive than traditional — not as “old-school Southern.” Yet Jones says, “it will resonate with what we’ve always done.”

Some of your old favorites from Watershed’s menu may rotate through as specials. Watershed’s famous fried chicken nights will return, but on Wednesdays at this location.

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