Four years after opening Midtown burrito stand and ceviche bar El Burro Pollo days before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chef Hector Santiago announced its closure over the weekend.
El Burro Pollo closed on Saturday, June 1, at the Collective at Coda food hall on West Peachtree Street, according to an Instagram post. But the closure might not spell the end of El Burro Pollo.
“As of June 1st, we’ll be putting a pause on our current operations . . . We started El Burro Pollo in the streets of Atlanta,” the post read. “The way the city has embraced us and our team is our driving force! This isn’t a farewell. Instead, we are saying, ‘Hasta luego!’”
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Born from Santiago’s Juarez-style burrito and West Coast-style ceviche pop-ups held at Latin sandwich stall El Super Pan in Ponce City Market, El Burro Pollo served a variety of hearty burritos, chihuahua cheese-stuffed quesadillas, and Acapulco-style ceviches. The stall also served beer, margaritas, and rum-based cocktails.
This is the second closure to hit the Midtown food hall over the last two months. In March, David Smith and Paul Jones closed their sandwich stall SmoQ’n Hot Grill at the Collective. Smith and Jones, who own vegan pizzeria Pizza Verdura Sincera in Little Five Points, plan to reopen SmoQ’n Hot Grill elsewhere.
Sandwich shop Humble Mumble, cocktail bar By Weight and Measure, Poke Burri, and Halal Mediterranean food stall Aviva by Kameel continue to operate at Collective at Coda.
Later this summer, Santiago will open Spanish tapas bar La Metro at Ponce City Market, joining El Super Pan in the central food hall. The menu will feature fresh, cured, and tinned seafood, charcuterie and cheese, and a selection of “pintxos” (bite-sized snacks). Expect beer, cava, Spanish wines, and Basque ciders, as well as cocktails with Spanish twists from the bar at La Metro.
A location of El Super Pan is also open at Battery Atlanta in Cobb County.
