July 2010 

While everyone is talking about Town Brookhaven on Peachtree Rd, don't forget about Villlage Place Brookhaven on Dresden where local chef and Brookhaven resident Joey Riley will open Kaleidoscope Bistro & Pub  this fall.

Village Place Brookhaven is already home to J. Christopher's, Verde Taqueria and The Library Coffee Co.  Yoforia just opened in June. Other tenants include The Little House of Art, Cocktails & Canvas, Natural Body Spa and Shop, The Mercantile, Davonshire, and Pro Cleaners; with Dresden Hair Studio, Muscio Fine Jewerly, Haven and Valenza across the street.

                     

Located in Atlanta's Brookhaven community on Dresden Drive within walking distance from the Brookhaven/Oglethorpe MARTA station, Village Place Brookhaven has residences and office condominiums, built above retail and restaurant space in two buildings. The live-work community is in a 5-acre park-like setting within walking distance from Peachtree Road. The development is five minutes from Lenox Square, Phipps Plaza and the Buckhead business district.

"I have been living in Brookhaven for more than a decade and while passing Village Place Brookhaven on my way to work, it became obvious that this mixed-use development would be the perfect spot for me to open my own restaurant," says Joey Riley, who for the past six years has been the executive chef of Buckhead Life Restaurant Group's Buckhead Diner.

Riley was born in Florida, went to the Culinary Institute of America in New York and spent time in Thailand. Since coming to Atlanta in 1989, he has worked as chef in nearly a dozen restaurants in Atlanta including TomTom, Goldfish and Nan's Thai Fine Dining.