A fire on Mother’s Day left the Alden shut down indefinitely, several new food and beverage businesses were announced in Alpharetta, and more happenings from the metro Atlanta food and dining scene.
The Alden in limbo after Mother’s Day fire
On the afternoon of Mother’s Day, typically one of the busiest days of the year for restaurants, chef Jared Hucks and his team at the Alden began to smell an odor like burning plastic in the restaurant.
The Alden, an Atlanta 50 restaurant, was fully booked for the evening and had even opened an hour earlier than usual to make more reservations available. Hucks and his staff searched the kitchen to figure out what was causing the burning smell before realizing it was coming from outside.
In an interview this week, Hucks told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he didn’t think the smell was much more than an irritant on a busy night, at first. Then, he began to see police officers outside directing people away from the building. Soon after, their fire alarm went off. Hucks and his staff walked out of the restaurant, unaware they were exiting the Alden for the last time in its original form…