OUR BAR ATL

Community Is at the Core of This Edgewood Avenue Bar.

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Partner Sarah Oak Kim talks about the community-minded ethos and culture behind Our Bar ATL and where she likes to eat around Atlanta.

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17 Restaurants With Rocking Playlists in Atlanta: Go for the food, stay for the music at these Atlanta restaurants.

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When there isn’t a DJs directing the music here, playlists are put together by the Our Bar staff. 

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MAP: WHERE TO DO KARAOKE AROUND METRO ATLANTA

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Karaoke at Old Fourth Ward’s Our Bar started out as a way to “provide feel-good vibes” during the height of the pandemic soon after the bar’s opening, said co-owner Sarah Oak Kim.

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"Our Bar ATL is hard to explain. People often describe us as a community center or a safe space, and we can’t help but agree. I personally take the most pride in this identity – what we are known for and “specialize” in...if you’re new to our bar or even to Atlanta, you only need to know one thing: just come as you are."

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"Throughout those first few weeks of the pandemic, the Edgewood Avenue bar owners fed and collected goods for their unhoused neighbors, hosted pop-up kitchens for out-of-work chefs, and allowed creatives to use the space, from bands needing places to practice to vendors selling clothing and art."

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"This Edgewood Avenue bar is open for late night drinks, dancing, and food. There’s a rotating list of pop-ups in the kitchen here serving everything from wings and egg rolls to po’boys, birria tacos, and breakfast for dinner."

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Dine While Listening to Live Music at These Atlanta Bars and Restaurants: Where to have dinner, drinks, and catch a show.

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"This Edgewood Avenue bar is so much more than its name presents."

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Listed by Eater Atlanta among its LATE-NIGHT ALTERNATIVES:

 

"Our Bar ATL on Edgewood for drinks, dancing, and late-night wings or food from a rotating array of pop-up chefs."

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15. "This Edgewood Avenue bar is so much more than its name presents...it has become an inclusive community hub for drinking, events surrounding social justice causes and activism, & chef residencies & restaurant pop-ups in its kitchen.."

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The Badge To Family Outreach: "He and his co-sponsor, ATLScoop, teamed up with Our Bar ATL, The Gumprecht Law Firm, Underground Atlanta, Councilwoman Andrea Boone, Caleb Corpew and Little Five Points Atlanta."

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'It Was Sorely Needed': Black Alternative Artists Building Creative Spaces.

Punk rock band Howling Star performs at Punk Black's final pop-up show of the year Aug. 14, 2021, at Our Bar ATL in Atlanta. 

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Meet Sarah Oak Kim: Co-Owner of Our Bar ATL. "Over time, we really wanted a place for ourselves, a home we can all belong to and can come back to – whether we’re celebrating a huge success or the sky is falling down on us."

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Coping with the Aftermath of the Atlanta Spa Shootings: In March 2021, a mass shooter killed eight people at three spa and massage parlors in the Atlanta area. Among the victims were six Asian-Americans, four of whom were Korean-American.

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"Spirits were high at Our Bar ATL in early March 2020. It had just opened at the corner of Edgewood and Hilliard Street, the brainchild of a group of friends who saved up to open their own place."

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Five Atlanta Restaurant Pop-Ups to Check Out This Month: The Edgewood Avenue bar, which opened in February 2020, serves as an incubator for enterprising Atlanta chefs and food entrepreneurs. 

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How to Support Black-Owned Businesses in Atlanta Right Now:

"Even if you don’t know what kind of dish you’re in the mood for, you can’t go wrong with all-around eateries like Our Bar ATL."

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The Restaurant Innovations That Got Atlanta’s Dining Experts Talking: "I would love to see more culinary hopefuls enter the entrepreneurial world to provide their communities with food cooked straight from the heart."

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Dining Experts Talk Rebuilding Atlanta’s Battered Restaurant Industry: "We’ve seen just how important people are to not only surviving, but even thriving in difficult times."

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The New Restaurants That Excited Atlanta Dining Experts in 2020: "This is probably a popular choice, but I would have to say chef Jarrett’s Little Bear in Summerhill."

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Atlanta Dining Experts Name Their Best Meals of 2020: "Due to COVID-19, the list of dine-in restaurants I’ve been able to enjoy this year is incredibly short, but Lazy Betty’s prix fixe menu was perhaps the best restaurant meal of 2020 for me."

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The Saddest Atlanta Restaurant Closures of 2020: "Although it wasn’t necessarily due to COVID-19, the closing of The Sound Table on Edgewood Ave was personally the saddest one for me."

 

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Atlanta Dining Experts Discuss the Most Exciting Restaurants Opening in 2021: "For a pop-up I’ve never tried yet, I’m quite eagerly looking forward to Kamayan ATL’s upcoming brick-and-mortar spot next year."

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The Biggest Hopes for the Atlanta Dining Scene, According to the Experts: "An opportunity to restructure the restaurant industry to make it more diverse, people-centric, and more connected to the communities they reside in and serve."

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Meet Sarah Kim from Our Bar ATL in Edgewood and Old Fourth Ward: "an empathetic dreamer who believes people define their own success, prefers to bluff in poker and loves to feed the fam."

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Stage is set for the new normal in nightlife: "Reservations will be part of the June 5 reopening plans at Our Bar ATL on Edgewood Avenue. Besides reservations, it will operate with limited hours – weekends only and closing at midnight."

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Old Fourth Ward restaurants, bars commit to reopening with 64 safety guidelines in place: A three-tiered Pledge to Public Health “to provide organization and collaboration for Old Fourth Ward businesses planning to re-open in the coming weeks.

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21 Old Fourth Ward Restaurants and Bars Sign a Public Health Pledge: Several restaurants & bars in Old Fourth Ward sign a pledge to follow safety measures that go beyond the state-mandated requirements to reopen.

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O4W Businesses ‘Pledge’ To Reopen With Whopping 64 Safety Guidelines Including Requiring Masks.

 

Led by a task force of business owners from Edgewood Avenue including Sarah Kim of Our Bar ATL...

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Our Bar ATL Makes Its Sweet Auburn Debut: Tapas & bar concept collectively owned by a group of close friends and hospitality industry vets has opened in Sweet Auburn.

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