After a year-long closing due to new road alignment, Woodstock’s historic train depot will re-open with an exciting new restaurant, announced Cheri Morris of Morris & Fellows, master developer of Woodstock Downtown and Woodstock City Center. Fire & Stone Italian Pizza, a family-owned restaurant serving authentic pizza and Italian dishes, will begin serving customers in late spring/early summer 2025. According to Morris, the eatery is exactly the type of family-friendly casual dining concept desired for the iconic Woodstock landmark, located at 251 East Main St.

“The historic Woodstock Train Depot has been a local landmark for over a century, and the building’s transition from a working depot to a popular dining location symbolized Woodstock’s rebirth from a sleepy railroad town to a vital, energized small city,” said Morris. “Thanks to the city’s visionary leadership and thoughtful planning, today’s residents and visitors come to Woodstock for boutique shopping, dining, employment and a variety of housing options. A key goal of the city’s master plan was to retain Woodstock’s charm as it transformed. During this process, the historic train depot was carefully preserved, and it has become the fulcrum point between the extraordinarily successful Woodstock Downtown revitalization and the new Woodstock City Center project now underway. This one-of-a-kind historic property deserves a restaurant that can use its energy and I believe we have found that with Fire & Stone Italian Pizza,” she said.

Fire & Stone Italian Pizza has been serving customers for over three decades, offering fresh Italian fare created from cherished family recipes. The new location will feature a show kitchen and imported Italian pizza ovens in the dining area so patrons can watch the pizzas as they are hand-crafted and baked to order. Diners will enjoy both indoor and outdoor seating on a new deck overlooking Depot Square – a new park in front of the train depot, and can top off a meal with fresh gelato served through the window of the Depot’s adjacent caboose.

“Both Woodstock Downtown and Woodstock City Center represent a generational opportunity to add retail, office, hotel, and critically-important parking and infrastructure to one of the most popular downtown destinations in Georgia," said Woodstock Mayor Michael Caldwell. "The addition of Fire & Stone Italian Pizza in the historic Train Depot is a perfect fit for our city’s continued redevelopment.”