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Cynthia Bailey has become known for having her wine in nearly all of her scenes on the Real Housewives of Atlanta so it only made sense that she would open a wine bar. Already her shop has been the site of her engagement and likely going to be the location of many Housewives fights to come. In fact, while recording this, she said she was awaiting co-star Nene Leakes to arrive with her saying, “we
ll see how that goes.” The chances are a fight immediately followed this video. Covered in foliage and representative of how Bailey is aging like fine wine, by her own admission (no falsehoods spoken there), this is a nice venture for her to start. And she spent nearly a decade married to a restaurateur so she should know all about how that works and more importantly what not to do. She’s easing into it to start as it’s only open Thursdays to Sundays but we’re sure the demand to get some of that Real Housewives flair is going to be there.
And the opening of this restaurant comes at a great point in her life getting remarried and about a year or so in her new home, Lake Bailey where she lives as an empty nester now that her daughter has gone off to college. Her ex-husband, the restaurateur, Peter Thomas on the other hand, not so much. His restaurant he opened 5 years ago, Bar One in Charlotte just closed its doors this week due to $237,000 in back taxes he owed. “Hard work never stop over here, got to get these people their money,” he wrote wrote on Instgaram. “The shuffle hustle is real.” If there is anything about Thomas, it’s the fact that he sure doesn’t stop trying and that’s admirable.
There’s a little bit of scandal with him and his restaurant though, and that’s that investors accused of him of defrauding them claiming there would be all of this filming of the Real Housewives of Atlanta there to drum up business which apparently never occurred. I believe there was a scene or two there, but not to the extent the investor claims was sold to him in order to get 6 figures in investment he never got back. But at the end of the day, Thomas is like a cat. He always lands on his feet. He says he plans to keep the place closed 3 to 6 months while his legal team sorts things out. And after all, he can’t let his ex-wife out do him in the restaurant business, now can he?
