Barcelona Westside Ironworks — Atlanta, USA

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The newest addition to the Barteca Restaurant Group just landed in Atlanta
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What began as a small wine- and tapas-bar in 1996, albeit one that paid homage to restaurateur Sasa Mahr-Batuz’s years in Spain and Portugal, has grown into a tasty little American East Coast culinary empire with outposts in Georgia, Massachusetts, Washington D.C. area, and Connecticut.

The newest addition to the Barteca Restaurant Group just landed in Atlanta in a former ironworks foundry. Taking his design cues from a Bohemian neighbourhood that includes an artists’ community and farmer’s market, Mahr-Batuz has dreamed up an interior in which mid-century modern meets industrial.

Framed by large steel l-beams, a huge cantilevered flat roof, steel sash windows rescued from a factory in Queens, New York, the room is furnished with early 20th-century northern European furniture, a customized steel wine wall, wall panels made from old Worcestershire sauce barrels, and artwork and photography by Mahr-Batuz and his father.

In the kitchen, executive chef Benjamin Meyer cooks up a storm, ever with an eye to pairing options with the restaurant’s perky wine and spirits list. House specials include a chicken pimientos, and anything cooked a la plancha.

Mahr-Batuz and co-founder Andy Pforzheimer are so bullish about the Barcelona formula they're already all prepped to open two outlets in Nashville in the coming year. 

Mahr-Batuz has dreamed up an interior in which mid-century modern meets industrial.

(Image credit: Andrew Thomas Lee)

Framed by large steel l-beams, a huge cantilevered flat roof

(Image credit: Andrew Thomas Lee)

American East Coast culinary empire

(Image credit: Andrew Thomas Lee)

Barcelona Westside Barteca Restaurant

(Image credit: Andrew Thomas Lee)

Exterior of Barcelona Westside Barteca Restaurant

(Image credit: Andrew Thomas Lee)

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Daven Wu

Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.