Popular Middle Eastern restaurant Delbar, owned by Chef Fares Kargar, opens on Monday, Nov. 18, in Buckhead.
Taking over the space once home to Ford Fry’s King & Duke on Peachtree Road, the Buckhead location of Delbar will serve a similar menu to the Inman Park and Alpharetta locations. However, this location does offer a handful of new dishes exclusive to Buckhead, including lamb and baghali tahchin (lamb shoulder with fava beans, yogurt, egg, and onions encased in crispy basmati rice) and a rainbow roasted carrot salad. Dessert in Buckhead also features tahini and honey soft serve and Persian tea flan.
In addition to the main dining room and bar, Delbar in Buckhead includes a covered patio with its own bar and cocktail menu, as well as two private event spaces.
Open daily for dinner and weekend brunch, Kargar plans to launch a weekday lunch service at the Buckhead restaurant in December.
Kargar left Iran in 2006 when he was 17. He fled to Turkey as a refugee to avoid the Iranian compulsory military service requirement. The chef eventually made his way to the United States, arriving in Atlanta and earning a degree in hospitality from Georgia State University.
The chef worked in several Atlanta restaurants before opening Delbar, including Rumi’s Kitchen in Sandy Springs. He went on to open the first location of Delbar in 2020 at Inman Quarter during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The success of Delbar led Kargar to open Persian street food stall Bibi at Ponce City Market two years later, followed by a second location of Delbar last year in Alpharetta.
Michelin recognized Delbar in its 2023 and 2024 guides to Atlanta.
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Next year, Kargar will open Eden at the Star Metals district on Howell Mill Road. The sprawling French-Mediterranean restaurant will include a rooftop bar called Garden of Eden.
Eden will feature design aspects channeling the cosmopolitan supper clubs popular in Iranian cities like Tehran during the 1960s and early 1970s. Look for multiple indoor and outdoor spaces like a covered patio filled with greenery, a 50-seat central bar, chef’s tables, and a more intimate bar paying tribute to Iran’s film industry in its design.
At night, the main restaurant will become an entertainment venue, too, with dancers, live performances, and DJs. Upstairs at Garden of Eden, the rooftop bar promises glimpses of the city skyline.
Take a look at the dinner and brunch menus for Delbar in Buckhead below:
Delbar, 3060 Peachtree Road, Buckhead. Open Sunday – Thursday, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.; weekend brunch, 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.