In Fine Spirits To Become Premise

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Mar 7, 2012 8:30PM

Andersonville restaurant In Fine Spirits is getting a makeover, including a new name and restaurant concept, called Premise.

In Fine Spirits will close March 18, along with its wine bar and the small plates dining concept established by the departing Marianne Sundquist. Owners Johnnie
Grozenski, Paul Hasenwinkel, and Shane & Jill Kissack have contracted Chicago-based design firms Grip Design and 555 International—who helped design GT Fish and Oyster and Girl & the Goat, among other restaurants—to redesign the restaurant and an upstairs lounge into "a place to go, an idea at its origin," as GRIP principal Kevin McConkey said in a press release making the announcement.

Former Graham Elliot chef de cuisine Brian Runge will replace Sundquist, and the restaurant will be divided into four concepts:

• The main fifty‐seat restaurant on the first level
• Back patio during the summer and early fall months, which doubles the first‐floor capacity
• "The Salon at Premise," an upstairs lounge with a continuously changing list of cocktails and bar bites
• "The King’s Room," a private dining area adjacent to the lounge which will feature seating for ten and an exclusive 10‐course tasting menu with beverage pairings and access to the upper‐level balcony.

The wine list will also be scaled back to emphasize New World wines and bottles, with fewer wines served by the glass.

In Fine Spirits wine shop will remain unchanged.