Brasserie at Parish closes in Inman Park

Restaurant on Eastside Beltline felled by pandemic.

Longtime Concentrics Restaurant eatery Brasse- rie and Neighborhood Cafe at Parish has shuttered for good.

The Eastside Be l tline restaurant had reopened in Octoberfordine-in, takeout and walkup service after closing temporarily last March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The permanent clo- sure was first reported by Atlanta Business Chronicle. Parish closed New Year’s Day weekend, according to Con- centrics co-owner Bob Amick.

“One thing COVID taught me: Evaluate everything I do,” Amick said. “It taught us a lot about efficiencies. In doing that, I had to make tough decisions.”

In its last days, Parish’s kitchen, with a reputation for brunch, was overseen by executive chef Chavez Hernandez. But many talented names spent time in the kitchen.

Parish opened in early 2008 in a century-old, stand-alone brick building at 240 North Highland Ave., as Parish Food & Goods with a Creole menu developed by Scott Serpas, who now owns Serpas restaurant in Old Fourth Ward.

Nick Melvin, who later oversaw the kitchen at Old Fourth Ward spot Venkman’s and now runs burrito pop-up Pollo Loco, took over at Parish in 2010 and pushed a menu of more traditional Southern fare.

In 2013, Zeb Stevenson — who would go on to helm the kitchen at Watershed on Peachtree and now owns Redbird in West Midtown — became the executive chef at Parish, by then known as Brasserie at Parish, and shifted the menu yet again.

Stuart Tracy, who now works on the development team for Chick-fil-A, served as an executive chef at Parish from 2015-17.

Co-founded by Amick and his business partner Todd Rushing, Concentricsalso owns Two Urban Licks on the Eastside Beltline and the adjoining Bully Boy, as well as Tap gastropub at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.