‘Best to bring a date.’ Macon bar, tapas restaurant to open in time for Valentine’s Day
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a cozy new restaurant is coming to north Macon.
Miramar Raw Bar & Tapas will open its doors Thursday in the Vineville Crossing shopping center near one of its sister restaurants, Brasserie Circa at 4420 Forsyth Road.
“This place is very sexy to me, it’s very sleek,” bar manager Josh Howard said. “In my opinion, this place will be the best to bring a date to.”
Howard was unloading bottles of liquor recently at the bar where he will be serving up specialty Spherification cocktails with tiny beads of flavor mixed into the concoctions.
“I wanted to upgrade the cocktail program here, but not scare anybody off at the same time,” Howard said.
Brian Adams, one of the owners of Miramar, said masonry artist Tanner Coleman cemented tiny shells into the smooth, dark bar countertop that stretches down the left side of the restaurant.
Chef Jacob Workman, who recently served as one of the cooks at Natalia’s restaurant, is excited about creating small plates, or tapas, for the Southern palate.
“I wanted to do tapas in an approachable way with Southern ingredients that are very common, but doing it in an elevated way,” said Workman, who was born in Texas and raised in Florida before moving to Atlanta and Macon.
The menu shows fresh oysters, shrimp, salads, soups and a variety of tapas including baked lobster mac & cheese, empanadas, roasted vegetables and a duck confit quesadilla.
Macon-Bibb County commissioners approved Miramar’s liquor license this week and the P&Z Commission signed off on the zoning compliance last month.
Miramar is the latest restaurant from local owners who have ties to Circa, Downtown Grill, Piedmont Brewery, the Lazy Susan and JAG’s, which is under renovation in Mercer Village.
JAG’s owners combined their initials to name the renovated pizzeria with a new bar that is going into the old Sauced pizzeria location at 1635 Montpelier Ave.
“It’s totally overhauled and we can’t wait,” Adams said.
Adams and his partners also have connections to the Kinjo Kitchen Plus Cocktails, a Japanese style ramen noodle restaurant and bar that will open next month at the corner of Second and Poplar streets in downtown.
Contact Civic Reporting Senior Fellow Liz Fabian at 478-301-2976 or fabian_lj@mercer.edu.