Bar Avize opens March 21 next door to Avize Modern Alpine Kitchen on Brady Avenue, completing Chef Karl Gorline’s full transformation of two spaces once home to Nick’s Westside and its adjacent cocktail bar.
With a much more casual vibe and food menu, Bar Avize will continue Gorline’s focus on Alpine-inspired dishes and drinks. Expect flammekueche, truffle fries drizzled with Taleggio Cheez-Whiz, a venison brat hot dog, and chicken nuggets topped with caviar accompanied by hot honey and crème fraîche. A double-stack cheeseburger includes two cold-smoked Wagyu patties, melted onion, raclette, pickles, and special sauce. Only 20 burgers are available nightly after 9 p.m.
For $15 each, look for cocktails from bar manager Jason Swearingen, like Quit Jerkin My Gherkin, made with coconut aquavit, kümmel (Dutch caraway liqueur), clarified citrus, gherkin pickle brine, and forced carbonation. At $12 a glass, Avize Hospitality Director and Sommelier Taurean Philpott devised a wine list for the bar centered on countries throughout the Alpine region.
Gorline opened Avize last September, naming the restaurant after the Middle English term “avisen,” meaning to examine, consider, or take counsel. Some dishes on the menu at Avize are based on family recipes. His grandparents immigrated to the United States from the Bavarian region of Germany.
Other dishes at Avize nod to countries bordering the Alps, including France, Switzerland, and Italy, and use foraged ingredients and fresh vegetables, grains, and herbs from the restaurant’s farm in Bremen, Georgia.
Take a look at the menu for Bar Avize below.
Bar Avize, 956 Brady Avenue, Atlanta. Open Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, 5 -10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. until closing. Walk-ins welcome.
