Does Metro Atlanta need another South Indian restaurant? The buzz around a Bay Area favorite making its way into Metro Atlanta says yes.
After nearly two decades of building one of the most trusted and enduring South Indian restaurant operations on the West Coast, Jay Jayaraman is making Atlanta his next chapter. The Mylapore family of brands spans thirteen Bay Area locations and includes its dine-in restaurants called Mylapore and Idly Express, its quick-service counter. He expands to the opposite coast by first setting up a 6,500 square-foot facility in Suwanee under the Idly Express name, from where he has been quietly operating for the last few months, followed by the Mylapore dine-in restaurant in Alpharetta.
At 6,500 square feet, the facility is the engine behind everything he is building here. Its real purpose is to function as a central kitchen feeding up to eight Atlanta locations, by his own projection, producing batters, masalas, and prepared components that go out to each restaurant daily. Every future location draws from the same kitchen, same batter, and same masala. The taste that brings someone back the first time is the same taste that brings them back the tenth…