Heritage Opens in Summerhill With a $195 Tasting Menu, and a Cheaper Way In

Heritage opened September 10 at 63 Georgia Ave. SE, Unit A, in Summerhill, and it's worth knowing about even if you never book the tasting menu. Chef Demetrius Brown, who owned Bread & Butterfly in Inman Park for three years before selling it, turned his long-running Heritage Supper Club pop-up into a permanent room with partner Brandon Blanchard. The food traces Brown's own background, Southern and Trinidadian, across the wider African diaspora: a snapper crudo built around what he calls the best fish he could find that day, jerk chicken plated as Japanese-style chicken yakitori with cilantro yogurt, Trinidadian doubles with channa and tamarind, an oxtail waakye with plantains and rice and beans, and a cassava cake finished with coconut ice cream to close.

The dining room runs an eight-course tasting menu that changes daily and with the seasons, priced at $195 a person, or $225 for a seat at the chef's counter, Tuesday through Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. That's a special-occasion number, not a Tuesday-night number. Brown has said he wants the menu to feel personal rather than like a spectacle, so it's built to be a slow, multi-hour sit rather than a quick dinner, and it changes often enough that a repeat visit won't repeat the meal.

The easier way in is the à la carte side of the menu, served in the cocktail lounge Tuesday through Saturday, 4:30 to 10 p.m., no tasting-menu commitment required. That's where you'll find Jamaican patties made with local beef, curry, and a chili labneh; a Hispaniola burger built on a plantain bun with minced chicken, sofrito, and Haitian pikliz; saltfish crackers with salted cod and fermented peppers; and cassava fritters finished with truffle and caviar. None of the à la carte prices are posted online, but it's clearly the accessible half of the restaurant, and the version most clients will actually use on a weeknight.

Summerhill is still mid-transformation, so set expectations before you go. Georgia Avenue is the corridor that's been filling in with restaurants and new apartments for the past several years, next to Center Parc Stadium, and parking runs through managed lots rather than street spaces you can count on. For clients weighing intown Atlanta, Summerhill is a useful data point: it's what a formerly overlooked corridor looks like a few years into active redevelopment, with restaurants like Heritage now betting on the block before all the construction dust settles.

Go on a Tuesday or Wednesday if you want the lounge quiet, order the Jamaican patties and the Hispaniola burger, and save the tasting menu for a birthday, an anniversary, or a closing dinner rather than a weeknight whim.

Photo courtesy of Heritage Supper Club.