A Bustling Virginia-Highland Street Corner Loses a Popular Weekend Biscuit and Breakfast Spot

The Atlanta location of Callie’s Scorching Little Biscuit closed Tuesday, Might 31, after almost seven years on Virginia Avenue within the Virginia-Highland neighborhood.

Proprietor Carrie Morey, who first based the biscuit enterprise in 2005 in Charleston, South Carolina, tells the Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle the lease was set to run out in July and with rising rents within the metropolis and working prices up by 30 %, she determined to close down the Atlanta restaurant.

Morey says that whereas the Virginia-Highland location was in style on weekends and did see an enormous enhance in weekday gross sales throughout the peak of the pandemic when many neighborhood residents have been working from dwelling, enterprise has slowed in latest months as individuals start returning to workplaces.

“The choice to shut our doorways was not a straightforward one, however it displays the present instances. Like most small restaurant companies, we’ve struggled over the previous few years, and we’re making the choice to give attention to Callie’s Scorching Little Biscuit nearer to dwelling in Charleston,” Morey says in an announcement posted to Instagram.

Each Charleston places stay open and Morey continues to promote her in style “piping scorching” biscuits on-line by means of the corporate’s web site and through supply providers equivalent to GoPuff. Batches of Callies’s biscuits are additionally obtainable retail at space Entire Meals and Publix and native outlets like Entrance Porch Market in Vinings.

No phrase but as to what may exchange Callie’s on the nook of Virginia and North Highland.