Omnivore - The Standard becomes Young Augustine’s

An acquaintance who reviews restaurants in another city told me she’s lately come to feel more like a bird of prey than a critic. We circle every empty restaurant location, hoping for a new tenant that will allow us to zoom in and pick over the menu. We dread bad food, because it’s no fun to write a negative review in an economy that makes restaurants highly risky investments.

This week, true to my friend’s metaphor, I zoomed in to test two restaurants that had been open barely a week. The first is the reincarnation of the Standard. It has reopened with 20-plus beer taps and the strange name of Young Augustine’s (327 Memorial Drive, 404-681-3344). I’m not sure exactly why the Standard closed, although owner Chris Johnson says business was down dramatically and “we needed to start over.” He said the terrible murder of bartender John Henderson last January “didn’t help” maintain the client base but was secondary to the economy’s collapse in negative effect.

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