Courtesy of Heritage and Bread & Butterfly
Chef Billy Allin, a 2017 James Beard semifinalist, has stepped away from his last restaurant in Atlanta. He shuttered Cakes & Ale in 2018, Proof Bakeshop in 2021, and last week, he handed the Bread & Butterfly keys to Demetrius Brown and Brandon Blanchard of Heritage Supper Club. The duo began a residency at the restaurant earlier this year, hosting their Afro-American pop-up in the evenings. After their first event, Allin offered to sell to them.
“We appreciate and respect what he’s built and will keep breakfast and lunch as close to what he’s built as possible,” Blanchard says. “Our plan is to spend the first 30 days learning from the staff how this restaurant operates. We want to sit down and get to know our people.”
In mid-October, they’ll introduce dinner service focused on French colonized countries and islands, such as Haiti, Jamaica, Niger, Senegal, and Congo. “We want to build a [metaphorical] bridge from France to the African diaspora,” says Brown, who comes from a Trinadadian family. “The goal is for us to be as self-sufficient as possible. I have a home garden that we’ll use for sourcing herbs and some produce.”
Courtesy of Heritage and Bread & Butterfly
In addition, Brown and Blanchard plan to host Heritage Supper Club events at Bread and Butterfly quarterly while they search for a separate brick-and-mortar location for a Heritage restaurant. They’re also working on “A Tale of Two Chefs” series in which Brown will cook alongside another local chef to tell stories from their lives. The first will be held at Westside Motor Lounge next month.
Below, Brown and Blanchard share their thought on the future of Heritage and Bread & Butterfly.
What kind of changes will you make to Bread & Butterfly’s breakfast and lunch programs?
Blanchard: We’ll identify the most popular items and keep those. We’ll continue to source from small farms. We will…
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