Welcome to kevin rathbun steak

From the owners of the nationally acclaimed Rathbun's & Krog Bar in Atlanta, they welcome you to their newest restaurant, KEVIN RATHBUN STEAK.

Expected to open in early Spring, 2007

Now Hiring Managers

  Read Kevin's Bio Here

Kevin Rathbun Steak is located one block north from Rathbun's & Krog Bar and only minutes from downtown Atlanta and Midtown Atlanta. (A cab ride from downtown Atlanta costs less than $10.00 and takes about five minutes)

Kevin Rathbun Steak is located in Inman Alley and sits directly on Atlanta's proposed beltline. It is a location that is continuing to be well-sought after by more restaurateurs. 

The space is being converted by The Johnson Studio, who have also completed the design for Krog Bar and Rathbun's.  Kevin says, "Bill & his team have turned Rathbun's and Krog Bar into spectacular spaces and now has the opportunity to do the same with Kevin Rathbun Steak. We look forward to seeing the old building being turned into something that is more desirable for the neighborhood and assists in the future growth for our company." 

Kevin Rathbun Steak will have 145 seats in the main dining room, a full bar for dining, and an open kitchen.  It will offer a beltline patio that  will have large comfortable chairs as it wraps around into the patio dining area.  The hidden north faced entrance leads you into the dark wooded interior and a spectacular wine wall welcomes guests into the bar and dining room. The dark hardwood flooring and wood ceiling assist in the modernized look of the steakhouse and gives the look of a modernized speak-easy restaurant where in the past, only the "in the know" people would know where this place would be. The entrance is covered by the canvassed cedared terrace and if you look closely under the kudzu, you will see the wall of graffiti left from the previous building owners. The newly paved driveway leads guests down a well lit alley into a fully lighted parking lot with valet parking.  

Nestled in Inman Park and surrounded by new residential development, it is a location that only an entrepreneur would take the risk on. "Kevin Rathbun says, "I wanted to be in a neighborhood but still have the feel of a big city and Inman Park has given that atmosphere to us and we are excited that the residents have welcomed our restaurants."

The original building was constructed as a cotton warehouse in the heyday of Atlanta’s mercantile boom in the mid-1890s. At the same time, the surrounding area was being developed by Joel Hurt as Atlanta’s first planned community and one of the nation’s first garden suburbs, Inman Park. 

In the early 1940s, the building caught fire, leaving little more standing than the solid brick exterior walls. The scorched wooden interior was eventually replaced with a modern steel frame. Parts of the ceiling of Kevin Rathbun Steak still has the original wooded ceiling. In 1941, the Clorox Company acquired the building to house its fourth production facility in the United States and its first in the South. Thirty years later, when Clorox moved to a larger location, the building was again transformed – this time into “The Black Box,” a widely respected rehearsal hall for Atlanta’s musicians. The 70 individual music studios frequently echoed thunderous music into the wee hours of the morning in this quasi-industrial/residential neighborhood.

Kevin Rathbun Steak is surrounded by small in-town neighborhoods like Grant Park, Virginia Highland, Cabbagetown, Candler Park, Morningside, Emory, Druid Hills, Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Little Five Points, and is only two miles from the downtown hotel and convention trade. The restaurant is only fifteen minutes from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson's International Airport.

12/28/2006