It appears Sweet Auburn Seafood is closing at the end of August. According to WSB-TV, the Southern-style seafood restaurant and lounge on Auburn Avenue officially closes August 31 due to financial strain caused by the ongoing health crisis and recent “violence in the area.”
White paper now lines the windows and the curtains are drawn along the front of the restaurant, and a “Sorry, We’re Closed” sign hangs on the front door.
Owner Patrick Williams told WSB that the downturn in the restaurant’s dine-in business over the last few months, coupled with illegal street parties and an uptick in crime in the area, have made it difficult to continue running Sweet Auburn Seafood.
Williams called the closure and the circumstances behind it “very demoralizing.” However, he isn’t against the idea of reopening the popular Southern seafood restaurant and bar at another location in the historic neighborhood next year. “We’re not going to give up on Sweet Auburn,” Williams said.
It’s already been a difficult summer for Williams and his family. His father and Sweet Auburn Seafood co-owner, Paul Williams, died in July. He was 67. The elder Williams opened Sweet Auburn Seafood in 2014.
“This was the commercial hub for black businesses in Atlanta,” he told Invest Atlanta in 2018 of why he was opening the restaurant in Sweet Auburn. “I really wanted my name, my family name, to be part of the resurgence of this area.”
The Sweet Auburn district is home to several historically significant sites, including Ebenezer Baptist and Big Bethel A.M.E. churches, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, the Atlanta Daily World building (first Black newspaper in the country,) and the Atlanta Life Insurance building, founded in 1905 by African-American businessman and former slave Alonzo Herndon.
Sweet Auburn Curb Market is also located on the edge of the historic district inside the old municipal market, just east of downtown Atlanta and Georgia State University. The market includes food stalls, a juice bar, produce and meat stands, and other small retail shops.
Eater Atlanta reached out to Sweet Auburn Seafood Monday morning for more details and comment on the closure.
A third location of vegan burger joint Slutty Vegan should open later this month on Edgewood Avenue in the neighborhood, next door to Edgewood Pizza and its forthcoming bar Handlebar.
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