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The 3,010-square-foot burger stand at 85 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW runs until midnight most nights and 1 a.m. on weekends, with $1 per sandwich going to Camp Twin Lakes on opening day.
A four-day birthday party at Manuel's, a citywide restaurant week worth planning around, a Summerhill potluck and a 16-year Buckhead closure headline the week in Atlanta dining.
More than 30 restaurants opened across metro Atlanta in July, and the downtown share was small but pointed: an Asian food hall in Castleberry Hill and a soul food room in South Downtown.
Two of Atlanta's better-known chefs are putting a counter-service restaurant in South Downtown, while the pencil building lines up a slate of dining concepts and a private club for next year.
The tournament's biggest gift to downtown dining wasn't the crowds — it was the deadline that pushed a wave of new restaurants, hotels and attractions across the finish line.
Fourteen new restaurants arrived across metro Atlanta in March — including a rooftop bar with a 12-foot disco unicorn at the Moxy Atlanta Downtown — while nearly as many spots closed their doors.
Atlanta United's partner-pub network reaches from Doraville to Virginia-Highland, but the rooms that filled first sat within walking distance of the stadium.
The James Beard Foundation is shopping for a host city through 2033, and the one organization positioned to bid for Atlanta has already said no.
Downtown is finally getting the thing it has been conspicuously missing: a bookstore you can sit down in.
The arcade bar that helped define Edgewood Avenue nightlife will reopen this fall across from The Earl.
The hip-hop coffee brand has traded its Azalea Fresh Market counter downtown for a build-out well east of the Perimeter.
A Georgia nitro brand is skipping the usual intown neighborhoods and putting its flagship on Peachtree Street instead.
One month, one metro, nearly forty new restaurants — and the map shows the center of gravity sitting squarely inside the Connector.
After 14 years of quarters, cabinets, and cocktails, one of Edgewood Avenue's defining bars has hit the continue screen.
From a South Downtown soccer bar to suburban patios stocking Quilmes, the tournament's cash-register effect reached far beyond the stadium gates.
