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This Historic Hotel Redo Now Includes a Southern Restaurant and Bar With Roots on Ponce

Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen is open at the Wylie Hotel on Ponce, taking inspiration from the original Mrs. P’s Tea Room that once resided there

Beth McKibben is the editor and staff reporter for Eater Atlanta and has been covering food and cocktails locally and regionally for 12 years.

Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen is now open inside the Wylie Hotel, a newly renovated 112-room boutique hotel located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward.

The historic, century-old building in which the Wylie resides opened as the Garner-Wallace Hotel in 1929, before closing four years later due to the financial fallout of the Great Depression. The property reopened as the 551 Ponce de Leon Hotel and included restaurant Mrs. P’s Tea Room on the ground level.

Opened in 1956, Mrs. P’s Tea Room would become one of Atlanta’s original LGBTQ-friendly bars, until it finally closed in the 1980s. The basement level of the old hotel also served as the original location for MJQ nightclub, with the building eventually converted to the Ponce Student Suites apartments in 2014.

As for this second iteration of Mrs. P’s, the restaurant features a small dining room and bar, glass-enclosed sunroom, and a terrace overlooking Ponce de Leon Avenue.

Wylie Hotel
Wylie Hotel
Wylie Hotel

Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the menu for Mrs. P’s leans into Southern comfort foods, while bringing in some of the global food influences and ingredients now found at restaurants throughout metro Atlanta.

Breakfast and brunch offer dishes like an avocado tartine with prosciutto, poached eggs, and arugula, almond croissant French toast, and breakfast tacos stuffed with nduja sausage, eggs, and beans. At lunch, expect Moroccan watermelon salad tossed with harissa, olives, feta cheese, and pistachio or red beans and rice arancini served with roasted garlic aioli and hot sauce.

Dinner features appetizers like boiled peanuts and grilled Georgia peaches as well as small plates such as okra “devils on horseback” and steak and eggs topped with trout roe. Look for entrees at Mrs. P’s to include barbecue lamb lollipops, a daily fish dinner, and char-grilled steak.

Check out the menus for Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen here.

Three egg omelette at Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen
Three egg omelette
Brittany Wages
Avocado tartine at Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen in Atlanta
Avocado tartine
Britanny Wages
Roast trout and New York strip at Mrs. P’s Bar and Kitchen in Atlanta
Roast trout and New York strip
Britanny Wages

551 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta. wyliehotel.com.

Breakfast daily: 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; Lunch: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner: Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Permanent daily hours begin for all three meals and Sunday brunch Labor Day weekend.

Disclaimer: The latest CDC guidance for vaccinated diners during the COVID-19 outbreak is here; dining out still carries risks for unvaccinated diners and workers. Please be aware of changing local rules, and check individual restaurant websites for any additional restrictions such as mask requirements. Find a local vaccination site here.

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