College Park restaurant owners vow to rebuild after eatery destroyed in fire [Video]

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A popular College Park restaurant is taking stock of what remains after a fire tore through it Thursday morning.

“This is just water damage in the front portion, the bar area and the dining area,” said Juan Smalls, co-owner of Virgil’s Gullah Kitchen & Bar.

Atlanta News First got a look inside the business after Juan and co-owner and husband Gee Smalls were cleared to access it early Friday morning.

According to College Park firefighters, the fire started in the galley. It was the second galley fire at Virgil’s in the past two months.

“We’ll have to completely gut the kitchen,” Juan said, showing an ANF crew around almost ankle-deep water and piles of burned rubble.

How the fire started was unclear, but the Smalls’ said it was a grease fire. The restaurant was closed and nobody was injured.

The Virgil‘s on Main …