Quick Bites: Loca Luna’s new executive chef, Bubbleology USA, and more

?Bubbleology, a British bubble tea café, will open its first U.S. stores at Lenox Square Mall and the Mall of Georgia this November. The concept features antioxidant-rich, tapioca-filled flavored fruit and milk tea with a red, white, or green tea base. Bubbleology is set to host various “tea pop-ups” throughout the Atlanta area before opening.
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?Art – but not just of the culinary kind – made Bon Appetit’s ”Coolest Restaurant Trends” of 2015. Atlas tops the list as way as with “MoMA-worthy” art and as “home to original works by Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh.”
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????The Atlanta office of Huge, an international agency known for its work in the digital space, has opened its own public coffee shop in the building that houses its offices at 1375 Peachtree St. The marketing firm will hold events focused on testing new ideas, gathering new ones, and fostering conversation about creativity and innovation. The cafe will also have a small Japanese-inspired food menu by Karl Injex, the man behind the Edgewood Avenue hotspot The Sound Table.
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?Loca Luna has announced Alexander Hebert, formerly sous chef at Barcelona, as executive chef. Herbert has developed a new menu that features items like foie gras and duck confit tacos.
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?Linton Hopkins’s H&F Bread Co. is expanding into a new facility three times the size of its current space in early November, Atlanta magazine reports. The space, located at 1500 Marietta Boulevard, will also host a retail concept that will sell house biscuit and cornbread mixes as well as serving local coffee, soups, salads, sandwiches.