“Our first two guest (sic) at the opening!” he captioned a photo of two guys at the eatery, before joking, “And ironically one looks like he could be my damn cousin. I’m talking about great food, great drinks, great energy, and my employees are the best employees in the world.”Ĭhicken + Beer welcomed its first customers on Thursday (17Nov16), and Ludacris was on site to greet hungry fans. We open tomorrow, November 17th, in the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield. “I’ve seen it come from my third album, triple platinum album, all the way to a restaurant. “Anything that’s worth waiting for is worth having. “It took me three years, but it’s finally coming to fruition,” he said in the footage. On Wednesday (16Nov16), Ludacris took to Instagram to reveal the place is ready for business as he gave followers a quick tour of the restaurant in a short video clip. The Area Codes hitmaker first unveiled plans for the new venture in 2012, after closing down his Asian fusion restaurant Straits Atlanta, after four years in business.Īt the time, he announced Chicken + Beer would launch at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, Georgia and offer “comfort foods and craft beers using locally-grown ingredients”. As we ate, his mother told me stories about her son growing up-which I promised him I wouldn’t repeat.Rapper/actor Ludacris has finally opened a restaurant inspired by the title of his 2003 album Chicken-N-Beer. They were served alongside beef tenderloin in an elegant tamarind sauce, another Ludacris favorite. Ludacris has a favorite dish at Straits, and at the party it became mine, too: kung pao lollipops, crispy fried chicken drumettes doused with a delectable sticky, sweet and seriously spicy sauce made with fried chiles (on weekends, Straits Atlanta goes through 100 pounds of drumsticks). Then everyone crowded around the platter-lined buffet table. To start the party, Yeo served bright Riesling-splashed strawberry-and-vodka cocktails and set out bowls of tangy wok-cooked peanuts tossed with kaffir lime leaf. “I’m a Virgo, I’m a perfectionist, and I’ve worked to make the restaurant better and better.” To celebrate the milestone, Ludacris and Yeo threw a party at a friend’s house, inviting a small group that included local TV anchor Amanda Davis Ludacris’s mother, Roberta Shields and Randall Cartwright, Ludacris’s stylist at Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren supports the Ludacris Foundation, a nonprofit that works with underprivileged children). “Everyone told me how many restaurants fail in their first year,” he says.

Ludacris is extremely proud that Straits Atlanta is now a year old.

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