Spring Quarter, the block at Spring and 10th, now has five restaurants and bars open. Property representatives told the AJC in late August that its retail space is fully leased. Four of the five don't serve anything before 5 p.m. The block filled in from dusk backward. The daytime pieces are the café, the morning coffee counter and the garden patio at the old Patterson chapel, plus an all-day restaurant farther up Spring Street at 14th. Those are the ones still on the way.
So the useful question for anyone who lives nearby is when each place is open, more than what's new. The answer changes how you use the block on a Monday night, a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday with guests in town.
A year of openings, mostly after dark
It filled in fast. Chefs Fuyuhiko and Lisa Ito opened Celestia and ISHIN by Ito in October 2025. Habaneros opened its first Georgia location at the Sora residential tower in June 2026. Sozou opened at the base of the Ten Twenty Spring office tower in August, and Pataaka opened on Saturday, Aug. 22, as the fifth.
Here is how the current schedules line up, based on each restaurant's own site or reservation listing as of early October 2026.
| Place | Format | Days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habaneros | Modern Mexican, at Sora | Daily | Mon–Thu 11 a.m.–11 p.m., Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–midnight, Sun 11 a.m.–9 p.m. |
| Pataaka | Modern Indian small plates | Daily | 5–10 p.m. |
| Sozou | Sushi counter and robata grill | Tue–Sat | 5:30–11 p.m. |
| Celestia | Eighth-floor rooftop lounge | Tue–Sat | Tue–Thu 5–10 p.m., Fri–Sat 5–11 p.m. |
| ISHIN by Ito | 16-seat omakase | Wed–Sat | Seatings at 7:30 p.m., plus 5 p.m. on Fri–Sat |
Read the table by time of day and the block gets much smaller. Before 5 p.m., Habaneros is the only kitchen open. It runs weekday lunch and weekend brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On a Sunday or Monday night the choices narrow to Habaneros and Pataaka. When Pataaka opened, Rough Draft reported that lunch would follow a few weeks after dinner. Its current listing still shows dinner hours only, so check before you plan a midday visit. Celestia's hours on OpenTable also differ from its own site on weekends. A quick look before a late Saturday is worth the ten seconds.
Three doors, one kitchen family
Three of the five evening places belong to the Itos. Their three venues also cover three very different price points, so the block works for very different nights out.
Celestia is the rooftop cocktail lounge on the eighth floor. The menu has included wagyu ravioli, oysters with caviar, and lobster. OpenTable puts it in the $31 to $50 range, and reservations are required.
ISHIN by Ito sits beside it. The 16-seat omakase counter serves chef-selected nigiri, crudo and grilled fish. OpenTable lists seats at $275, with a $200 option for the Saturday 5 p.m. seating. That early Saturday seating is the lowest-cost way into the most exclusive room on the block.
Sozou is the newest of the three. It's built around a sushi counter and a binchotan robata grill. Reported highlights include sousaku nigiri, whole branzino grilled to order, and Lisa Ito's coconut ice cream parfait. The restaurant asks for smart-elegant dress and no athletic wear. That matters if your plan is a walk from Piedmont Park straight to dinner.
The other two rooms come from different operators. Pataaka takes its name from the Hindi word for firecracker. Chef Anish Nair, previously corporate chef for Savi Provisions and executive chef of Jai Ho Indian Kitchen, built a menu of shared plates. They include a chulbule jhinga tart with tiger prawns and avocado mousse, oysters Rockefeller with paneer and fennel, and old Delhi butter chicken. It seats 114 across a double-height dining room, a mezzanine and a patio. "I've dreamed of opening this restaurant for a decade," Nair said in a report by Downtown Atlanta. Habaneros, led by CEO and creator Omar Lugo, serves crawfish nachos, short rib al carbón and grilled octopus. It's at 1000 Spring St. NW, the Sora side of the block.
The daytime half is inside a 1928 chapel
The building that will change the block's hours is the oldest one on it. Philip T. Shutze designed the H.M. Patterson & Son Spring Hill chapel, built in 1928. In August 2018, the City of Atlanta made the building a historic landmark. The designation covers the main building, the front lawn and the north garden, but not the interior. The funeral home closed in 2020. Portman's materials describe the 24,000-square-foot building as the heart of Spring Quarter.
Developer Portman Holdings has wanted this building to work all day for a while. It previously announced that Steve Palmer of Indigo Road Hospitality would bring a "morning-to-night" food and beverage destination to the Patterson. That plan didn't move forward. In August, Portman announced that Hal's "The Steakhouse," the Buckhead institution, will take over the space. With that lease, every restaurant space at Spring Quarter is spoken for.
Hal's plans more than a steakhouse there. Owner Sammy Jimenez described:
- A European-style café
- A morning coffee shop
- A patio
- The steakhouse dining room
- A second-floor art gallery, curated by Alex Soto and Andres Rodriguez
Rough Draft reported that the plan keeps much of the building's French interior finish and adapts around its English Vernacular Revival exterior. Walix Corporation and María Domínguez of Maison Malueé are leading the redesign. It will be Hal's third location, after Buckhead and Nashville.
The timing shifted within a day of the announcement. Portman's first release said early 2028. The next afternoon, Portman's representatives told Urbanize Atlanta that Hal's now plans to open in spring 2027. The AJC's updated story also gives spring 2027. Until then, the coffee and café program that would give the block a morning is still a plan.
Up the street, the same pattern repeats
The rest of Spring Street toward 17th is following the same order. Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar lists an Oct. 19 opening at 1331 Spring St. NW, and reservations are already open. The company describes an 80-seat dining room, a chef's table, private dining rooms and an outdoor lounge. If that date holds, it adds one more dinner address to the street.
The daytime piece is at 14th and Spring. The building's site names The Walton as its restaurant and lobby bar, serving breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon, and cocktails and spreads in the evening. The Walton's own page describes a California-Mediterranean menu with an Asian throughline and La Colombe coffee. It still says "Opening Fall 2026," with a sign-up list and no date. In July, What Now reported a permit filing for a "14th & Spring Cafe" at 1150 Spring St. NW, Suite 175. The filing lists 86 seats and proposed hours of 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The address and the all-day format line up with The Walton, though no source has confirmed they are the same project.
Matching the block to the night
For the next few months, the schedules above decide most plans:
- A weekday lunch or weekend brunch on Spring Street: Habaneros, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Sunday or Monday dinner: Pataaka or Habaneros, the only two open those nights.
- Out-of-town guests on a Friday: drinks at Celestia from 5 p.m., then dinner at Sozou from 5:30, a few steps apart.
- The splurge: the 16 seats at ISHIN, booked ahead, with the Saturday 5 p.m. seating at the lower price.
- A larger group: Pataaka's 114 seats, spread across the dining room, mezzanine and patio.
A morning coffee at the Patterson is still a spring 2027 plan. Until The Walton names a date, the nearest Spring Street breakfast is still on a sign-up list.
When a block fills in this way, you're seeing a neighborhood's daily rhythm change as it happens, and that affects how a home nearby lives day to day. If you're weighing what a few more years of openings like these mean for your own address in Midtown, Lauren Bowling is happy to talk it through with you, calmly and with the numbers in hand. Book a Consultation.
