The two biggest Buckhead dining announcements of 2026 came from a commercial office landlord. Neither came from a restaurant group scouting Buckhead Village storefronts. CP Group, which owns Buckhead Center on Peachtree Road and Piedmont Center on Piedmont Road, has spent this year putting restaurants in front of its office buildings. It is aiming them at people who live nearby as much as at the people who work upstairs.
So when you picture where you'll eat in Buckhead in 2027, include two places that were built for office workers. One is a two-tower complex at Peachtree and Pharr. The other is a 14-building campus near Piedmont and Lenox.
Linton Hopkins Comes Back to Peachtree Road
In September, Rough Draft Atlanta reported that James Beard Award-winning chef Linton Hopkins and Hopkins & Company will open Linton's Bar and Grill at Buckhead Center, 2970 Peachtree Road. The restaurant takes over the former Brio Tuscan Grille space. The Buttery, the group's bakery-cafe, comes back with it. It closed in 2024 after four years in Morningside-Lenox Park, and here it will have its own entrance next to the restaurant.
CP Group's announcement on Business Wire describes a restaurant and bakery of about 7,000 square feet. It will have a large patio overlooking Peachtree Road plus semi-private and private dining rooms. The opening target is late spring 2027. The Buttery will bake bread in-house for the restaurant. It will also run a small cafe with coffee, croissants, sandwiches, desserts and grab-and-go meals.
Peachtree Road is where Hopkins started. Restaurant Eugene opened at The Brookwood in 2004, and Holeman & Finch followed in the same complex four years later. Eugene closed in 2019 and Holeman & Finch closed a year after that. It reopened at Colony Square in Midtown in 2023. That leaves H&F Bottle Shop as the group's main Buckhead presence until Linton's opens.
The plan is pitched at the neighborhood, not the lunch crowd. In CP Group's announcement, Hopkins put it this way:
"We truly want to be a neighborhood restaurant. The place you go to and sit on the patio with friends over ice-cold martinis, crisp calamari and tuna tartare. The place you take your kids after school for a lemonade and cookie, while you grab a chicken pot pie from The Buttery."
The same quote ends with "a quick lunch of sandwiches and salads between meetings upstairs." That's the office tenant, mentioned last.
The building is being reworked around the restaurant. The south tower lobby renovation is finished. Work on the motor court and the front entrance is underway and expected to wrap up by the end of 2026. CP Group says the property is within half a mile of more than 50 restaurants. Linton's will open into that crowd with a patio facing Peachtree Road.
Piedmont Center Is the Bigger Version of the Same Plan
Buckhead Center is getting one restaurant. Piedmont Center is getting a full dining street.
CP Group bought the 2.2 million-square-foot, 14-building campus in June 2025. On January 30, 2026, it unveiled a master plan to turn the 46-acre office park into a mixed-use destination "anchored by best-in-class restaurants and retail amenities." The plan centers on a walkable, street-level dining corridor along Piedmont Road with at least six restaurant concepts. The design team is Atlanta firms Smallwood and ASD|SKY, with placemaking strategists Of Place.
In August, Urbanize Atlanta reported on filings that show what the plan looks like on the ground in the 3500 block of Piedmont Road, between Peachtree and Roswell roads.
| Piece of the plan | What the filings show |
|---|---|
| New standalone retail buildings | Six, totaling more than 25,000 square feet |
| Outdoor space next to them | 10,200 square feet in total |
| Largest new building | Building A, 6,425 square feet enclosed |
| Signature feature | Green roof and patios on Building D, at the center |
| Retail added to an existing building | 7,375 square feet inside, 2,250 outdoors |
| Parking set aside for retail | 117 spaces in decks and lots |
The same report says CP Group aims to make the campus "more inviting and engaging" for "both tenants and the general public." The 117 designated spaces support that. Office parks don't usually set aside parking for people who come only to eat and shop.
No tenants have been named. When Urbanize reported the filings on August 31, CP Group was scheduled to take the updated plans to the Buckhead SPI-12 Development Review Committee, one step toward construction permits. The campus has had smaller early additions. CP Group's release lists LiveWire Coffee in Building 6 and a rotating food truck program.
The campus is also changing at its southern end. In March, CP Group announced that buildings 9 through 12, known as The Fountains at Piedmont Center, would become Buckhead Medical Center, a Class A medical office project at 3495 Piedmont Road.
Why an Office Landlord Wants Your Weeknight Dinner
CP Group explains the strategy itself. The Piedmont Center release talks about repositioning the campus "to thrive in the city's evolving office market." Founding partner Chris Eachus said the firm is "building a destination," with new restaurants and retail anchoring the project "as a vital part of the Buckhead community." About Buckhead Center, he said the goal is an environment "that serves our tenants, engages the community, and feels connected to Buckhead."
Both releases talk about leasing next to the dining news. Piedmont Center's plan followed 83,000 square feet of recent leasing, and the release notes open blocks of up to 92,000 and 140,000 square feet. Buckhead Center has openings from 500 to 23,000 square feet. In this model, the restaurant helps sell the office space. A patio that's busy at 7 p.m. with people from nearby streets makes the building more appealing to the companies deciding whether to lease the floors above.
The firm has done this elsewhere in Atlanta. According to Rough Draft Atlanta, CP Group's renovation of the former CNN building downtown includes The CTR, a food hall with 11 restaurant stalls that opened just before the 2026 World Cup. It has also partnered with Episcope Hospitality on three food-focused spaces inside Bank of America Plaza in Midtown. The two Buckhead campuses are that same approach applied to Peachtree and Piedmont.
The Calendar, From Here
Here's how the two projects line up, using the dates their owner and the local press have published:
- June 2025: CP Group acquires Piedmont Center.
- January 30, 2026: Piedmont Center master plan announced, with at least six restaurants on Piedmont Road.
- Late August/early September 2026: Updated Piedmont Center retail plans scheduled for the Buckhead SPI-12 Development Review Committee.
- September 18, 2026: Linton's Bar and Grill and The Buttery announced for Buckhead Center.
- By the end of 2026: Buckhead Center motor court and entrance work expected to be complete.
- Late spring 2027: Target opening for Linton's and The Buttery.
No opening date has been published for the Piedmont Road corridor, and none will mean much until tenants are named.
Buckhead Village Keeps Filling In Meanwhile
None of this pulls attention away from the traditional retail blocks. Buckhead Village is still adding new businesses. Linton's will open on the edge of that district, which adds to the competition for evening diners on Peachtree Road.
At 3065 Peachtree Road, Rough Draft Atlanta reported in July that Y Bar e Ristorante had opened in the former Storico Vino and Pachengo spaces. At the same address, What Now Atlanta reported that Roller Rabbit plans its first Georgia store in an 1,850-square-foot space in Suite B214. The company hasn't given an opening timeline.
You can see the Village's own events calendar this week. The Camp Twin Lakes Partners Card runs October 23 through November 1, 2026. It's a 10-day shopping event at participating Buckhead Village District businesses. The Buckhead Village Car Club follows on Sunday, November 8, from 9 a.m. to noon. Both are listed on the district's Happenings page.
The office-park projects are moving on a different schedule. They depend on lobby renovations, entrance work and committee reviews, not tenant turnover. By spring 2027, the next new patio on Peachtree Road could well belong to an office tower.
Questions like this shape how we price and present homes near Peachtree Road and Piedmont Road: what's being built within walking distance and when it opens. If you want to know how Buckhead's changing dining map might affect your home's value, The Suits Team can walk you through it, starting with an instant home valuation.
