Along with our trek to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, we decided to try out one of the most unique restaurants in the area – Piebar. One of Concentrics Restaurants creations, Piebar is located on Monroe Drive adjacent to I-85 in the cylindrical former Trust Company Bank Building. The restaurant is really cool and the patio with white tent tops located over the old teller drive-thrus is the place to be on a cool night in Atlanta.
As you walk into Piebar, you immediately notice the exhibition kitchen in the center of the restaurant where all the pizzas are fired to perfection in the Southeast’s largest pizza oven. Not one to go with the flow, Piebar’s pizza are individual rectangular pizzas made to your liking. There are several pre-designed pizzas for your choosing, but there are 24 different ingredients to choose from to make your own. And since it’s and individual pie, you don’t have to worry about please everyone else in your party.
Having worked up a hunger at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, I couldn’t wait for the pizza, so I started out with a Caprese Salad. Their rendition, as to be expected, was a bit different, but quite good. It featured scalded and skinless red cherry tomatoes, quartered yellow tomatoes and quarter green tomatoes with fresh mozarella, basil leaves and a balsamic cream over the top. Excellente!
I selected the naked pizza, wanting to appreciate the true pie. It featured cherry tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and pienut pesto. The crust on my pizza was light and flaking and the taste was wonderful. My wife decided to create her own and went for the goat cheese and prosciutto, also an excellent choice. My son opted for the cheese pizza and he loved it. (This is part of my parental role to educate my kids about real pizza so that they won’t think Papa Johns is the best). My daughter decided to go for the tomato and goat cheese fondue with garlic baguette. She’s not your ordinary five-year old.
We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Piebar and look forward returning sometime sans kids for an evening on the patio, but it was a nice bit of sustenance after our big day out at the Botanical Garden.