21-05-2025
A Beautiful New Indian Restaurant Is Headed to Midtown
Chef Anish Nair, who owns Jai Ho Indian Kitchen at Krog Street Market, is leading a swanky new Indian restaurant in Midtown later this year. Pataaka, which means firework in Hindi, will be a tapas-style Indian joint at Spring Quarter — a mixed-use development by Portman Holdings that promises to transform an entire city block in Midtown.
Pataaka is expected to open this fall on the ground floor of Sora, a luxury residential tower within Spring Quarter. The menu features Indian classics with fusion takes, like jackfruit bruschetta, tamarind barbecue lamb ribs, tandoori duck breast, sakura chicken, and red snapper pollichattu (roasted fish in banana leaves). The restaurant will have 113 seats, an outdoor patio, and a mezzanine space for private dining, designed by the Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry. The renderings show large windows with ample natural light flooding into the dining room, with tuffeted, amber-colored seating.
Spring Quarter will also be home to more restaurants: Sozou, a contemporary Japanese restaurant by chef Fuyuhiko Ito, will open at the ground floor of Ten Twenty Spring, and on the eighth floor, the 14-seat Omakase at ISHIN by Ito will take root, overlooking the Midtown skyline. Habanerosa, a Louisiana-born Mexican restaurant, will open its first location in Georgia at the complex. All restaurants are expected to open this fall.
Portman Holdings, the company founded by famed architect and developer John C. Portman Jr., also developed Junction Krog District on the Atlanta BeltLine. Yeppa & Co.'s second location, Yuji, a new Japanese restaurant by Kinjo Enterprise, and Brash Coffee Roasters are the latest spots to open in the development.
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