For years, a Saturday in Underwood Hills meant two separate trips. You walked the Silver Comet Connector Trail in the morning, then got back in the car later for tacos at Nuevo Laredo Cantina or Hankook Taqueria down Collier Road. The neighborhood had the pieces of a good day. It just didn't have anywhere to string them together on foot.
That gap closed this summer at 1385 Collier Road, where Upper West Market has been filling in one tenant at a time. The building sits in the same industrial stretch as the trail and the taco spots, which means the neighborhood's errand list finally lives inside a single loop instead of two disconnected stops.
The rollout has been slower than the ribbon cutting suggested
If you only caught the headlines, you'd think Upper West Market opened once, back in the spring. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and Councilmember Dustin Hillis appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in April 2026, with a public grand opening following in May. That covered the building and the stall infrastructure.
The part that actually makes this a place to linger, the restaurants, took most of the summer to arrive. Chef Anne Quatrano's all-day cafe Summerland didn't open until late July, and Rough Draft Atlanta called it the market's first sit-down restaurant to actually open its doors. Summerland runs daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., serving breakfast, lunch, coffee, and pastries, and it's named for Quatrano's family farm in Cartersville, which has been in operation for five generations.
So the market that residents drove past all spring wasn't really open in the way that changes a Tuesday. That version arrived in the past two weeks.
What's actually open right now
As of this week, here's what you can walk into and buy at Upper West Market:
- Summerland – Anne Quatrano's daytime cafe, open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, built around produce and meat from her family's Cartersville farm
- Prana Kitchens – Ayurvedic-inspired spice blends and pantry staples, with a stall grand opening on Aug. 1
- Dips Kitchen – scratch-made dips and dippable foods, from pimento spread to shrimp cocktail
- Xocolatl Chocolate – an award-winning bean-to-bar chocolatier
Still filling in behind them is The Boiler Room, Hop City Beer & Wine's first bar concept, which is set to anchor the market's beverage program in a 30-seat space built into the building's actual former boiler room. Two vendors from the original 2024 announcement, Honeysuckle Gelato and White Oak Pastures, were named as part of the roster early on but haven't been reconfirmed as trading yet.
That's a real lineup, but it's still a fraction of the market's ceiling. The site plan for Building A calls for as many as 35 stalls in the 9,000-square-foot vendor hall. What's open today is closer to a handful than a finished market, which is worth knowing before you plan a trip expecting every stall to be staffed. You'll find a real morning's worth of errands here now. You won't yet find the whole thing the developers promised.
The Boiler Room isn't a theme, it's the actual room
Hop City's bar takes its name literally. Before Upper West Market, the building was a chicken processing plant, and CEO Kraig Torres and his team are building out what was once the facility's boiler room.
"When we walked into the space for the first time, it looked like a scene out of 'The Shining.'"
That's Torres, describing the space to What Now Atlanta ahead of the opening. Once it's pouring, the bar will seat just 30 people and pare Hop City's usual 60-to-85-tap beer wall down to 24 beers, shifting the emphasis to wine instead. It's a different kind of Hop City than the retail stores most Underwood Hills residents already know.
The choice to keep the boiler room rather than gut it fits a pattern the neighborhood already has. Underwood Hills was first developed in 1902 as Northside Park, and its earliest residents worked for the nearby Seaboard Coastline Railroad. The brick and frame cottages built for those railroad workers still stand, reflecting the modest, working roots of the area even as the surrounding blocks have filled in with newer construction. Upper West Market's reuse of an old processing plant, boiler room included, is the same instinct applied to a bigger building: keep the bones that tell you what this place used to be, and build the next chapter around them instead of over them.
Closing the loop on foot
The market sits near the growing Silver Comet Connector Trail system, in the same stretch of Collier Road as Nuevo Laredo Cantina and Hankook Taqueria. That proximity is the whole point. A resident who used to drive to the trailhead, drive home, then drive back out for tacos can now do all three on one walk. Park once, or don't drive at all if you're close enough, and the loop closes itself.
That's a small logistical shift, but it's the kind that changes how often people actually leave the house on a Saturday morning. A ten-minute walk to a trail is one kind of habit. A ten-minute walk that also passes a coffee counter, a chocolate stall, and a taco spot is a different, stickier kind of habit.
What this means if you live here
Underwood Hills didn't get a destination built for people driving in from other parts of the city. It got a stopping point that was missing from a loop residents were already walking and driving in pieces. The market's slow, staggered opening, stalls first in spring, restaurants trickling in through summer, means the full picture is still coming into focus. Right now Summerland, Prana Kitchens, Dips Kitchen, and Xocolatl Chocolate are open for business, with the Boiler Room and a few other announced vendors still catching up.
If you've been putting off a walk down Collier Road because you weren't sure what was actually open yet, this is the week to go. Summerland is serving breakfast daily and Prana Kitchens just set up at Stall 5.
Shanna Bradley tracks these changes across West Buckhead and the neighborhoods around it because they're part of what makes living here different from living anywhere else in Atlanta. If you're curious how a shift like this affects the day-to-day experience of a block you already call home, or you're weighing a move within the neighborhood, Shanna Bradley is glad to talk through it. Book an appointment anytime.
