Glover Park Brewery Never Had a Kitchen. Now It Has One Across Atlanta Street.

The building at 72 Atlanta Street started out as a filling station. Most recently it was an auto shop. Then it was gutted and rebuilt as a restaurant. Today it's Glover Park Kitchen. It has a conditioned, covered patio, a lawn for outdoor dining in any season, and a chef's table with limited seating for smaller parties.

It sits diagonally across the street from Glover Park Brewery, and the same people own both. Hank DuPre and Sam Rambo co-founded the brewery, and they held the restaurant's grand opening in October. The Marietta Daily Journal quoted DuPre: "We spent a lot of time and a lot of effort to get here. Don't know exactly what to expect. A little nervous about it, but we certainly hope that our vision is accurate."

If you live nearby and know the brewery's beer garden, the new building matters for one reason. Glover Park has always been a place to drink. Until this fall, it was never a place to sit down for a full dinner.

For Eight Years, Dinner at Glover Park Came Off a Truck

Glover Park Brewery opened in 2018. The founders are Marietta natives Rambo and DuPre, who started it with Kevin McNerney, a co-founder of SweetWater Brewing Company. From the start, the food was handled by a partner. Fusco's Food Truck is parked on-site and serves wood-fired pizzas, salads and Italian desserts every day.

That setup lasted almost eight years. In its coverage of the expansion, the Marietta Daily Journal reported that the brewery serves food through that longtime truck partner and "has never operated a full kitchen." The same article says the owners started looking for ways to expand as the brewery grew more popular. When the property next door came open, they saw a chance to add something new to the south side of the Square.

The founders have described the taproom as a community gathering spot first. "For us, it's about the community, truly is," Rambo told the paper. "The addition is going to be something very similar to that." DuPre said, "We see three generations of people down there in the tap room, and it's just very gratifying."

So the kitchen doesn't replace anything. Fusco's still feeds the taproom. The brewery's own site now lists three parts: the original brewery and taproom, the Event Venue, and the Kitchen across the street. The event space is 5,000 square feet split into three areas, used for weddings and corporate events. One brewery on Atlanta Street has grown into a small cluster of buildings.

The Same Beer Pours on Both Sides of the Street

The easiest way to see the link is on the drinks menu. Glover Park Kitchen's cocktail, wine and beer list includes Glover Park beers on tap: Park Lite, El Jefe, Base Camp, Can I Get a WITness, Some Beach and Off the Tracks. On the current menu, tap beers run $7 to $9 and signature cocktails about $13 to $16. Wine comes by the glass or the bottle, and there are nonalcoholic cocktails too.

Since the beer is the same, choosing a side of the street comes down to food and pace. The taproom is at terrace level. It has a dog-friendly beer garden, heating and cooling inside and out, watch parties, and Fusco's pizza. The restaurant describes itself as a chef-driven place built around a seasonal Southern menu. It invites guests to "sit down, share a meal and let the night unfold, at its own pace."

What the Kitchen Actually Serves

The executive chef is Lance Hagan. According to Marietta.com's profile of the restaurant, he has more than 20 years of fine-dining experience, including Pano's and Paul's, Table 1280, Legendary Catering Company and Vail Resorts. DuPre has said Hagan likes to put it this way: "this isn't going to be your fried chicken restaurant. This is going to be way more than that."

Fried chicken is on the menu, as a sandwich and as a Springer Mt. Fried Chicken plate, but it shares the page with plenty of other Southern dishes. The Fall 2026 lunch menu, dated October 4, includes:

• She-crab soup, $14
• GA Boy Wagyu burger, $18
• Fried chicken sandwich, $17
• Gulf shrimp po' boy, $20
• Charleston shrimp and grits, $26

Lunch entrées run $17 to $26, and the welcome plates, soups and salads cost less than that. Dinner costs more. On OpenTable, the restaurant is in the "$50 and over" price range. Dinner sides are ordered separately and sized for two to three people. That fits the shared-plates idea the founders described when they talked about wanting shareable food and shareable conversation.

Shared sides change how you plan the table. Two people ordering separate sides will end up with more food than they expect. A group of four can split the sides and spend the savings on another round of El Jefe.

The Week Decides Which Door You Walk Through

The two buildings run on different schedules, and the schedule is the most useful part to know. Glover Park Kitchen's posted hours:

Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m. on every day the kitchen is open, so the Square now has a sit-down lunch option on Atlanta Street. Sunday opens half an hour earlier, at 11 a.m. Reservations are made through OpenTable, linked from the restaurant's website. The phone number is (770) 779-7114.

Across the street, Wednesday has its own pattern. On Wednesday nights the brewery often hosts Charity Nights in the taproom with local 501(c) and 501(c)(3) organizations. The featured group gets a booth, and 10% of all taproom sales go to it.

Put the two schedules together and a week on that block might look like this:

1. Monday: the kitchen is closed, so it's taproom and Fusco's pizza, with the dog along for the beer garden.
2. Wednesday: dinner at the kitchen, which closes at 9, then across the street to finish the night at a Charity Night.
3. Friday or Saturday: the kitchen stays open until 11, the latest of the week, with a reservation for the covered patio.
4. Sunday: the 11 a.m. opening makes a late-morning meal on the lawn possible.

Parking Works the Same for Both

The brewery's site says it has a limited number of free spaces next to the taproom at terrace level. It also points to free and paid public parking nearby, including the pay lot at 88 Waverly Way across the street. For more, the brewery sends visitors to the City of Marietta's Downtown Parking page. With both buildings this close, one parking spot covers the whole evening: dinner at 72 Atlanta Street, then a short walk diagonally across to 65 Atlanta Street SE for a last pour.

The brewery's founders grew up here. DuPre told the Marietta Daily Journal that the revival on the Square seven or eight years ago "kind of reminded us of our childhood growing up here," and that "we wanted to add to that." Their first addition was a taproom with a pizza truck out back. The second is a full kitchen in a former filling station across the street, open six days a week and pouring the same beer.

If you want to talk about life on this end of the Square, or what it means for a home a few blocks away, The Carlson Orange Team would love to hear from you. Talk to Your Real Estate Family, and we'll gladly trade restaurant picks while we're at it.