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155 Sycamore St. (404) 377-7994 cakesandalerestaurant.com
Not every restaurant in the South is a paragon of lard-dripping, gut-busting excess. When you’ve had your fill of cornbread and collard greens and every other old-school staple on your list, make a reservation at Cakes & Ale, a homey farm-to-table spot serving more surprising regional fare like North Carolina trout, quail with fennel sausage, and okra with chile and lemon.
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1700 Northside Dr. NW (404) 549-7012cardamomhill.net
What’s better than Southern fried chicken? Southern fried chicken served Kerala-style, shimmering in coconut oil, with curry leaves and peach chutney. If you had no idea Southern Indian food got along so well with good ol’-fashioned Southern cookin’, Chef Asha Gomez’s Cardamom Hill will set you straight. Come hungry—did we mention that chicken comes with waffles (and a side of red-chili-flake-spiked maple syrup)?
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914 Howell Mill Rd. (404) 477-6260 theoptimistrestaurant.com
The Optimist is just about the biggest, prettiest, first-date-iest seafood temple you can imagine, with the added advantage of offering peel-and-eat Georgia shrimp, which may be the tastiest crustaceans you’ll ever put in your mouth.
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466 Edgewood Ave. SE (404) 522-8275 sisterlouisaschurch.com
Church is the colloquial name for this zany two-story bar crammed with quasi-heretical folk art—try to imagine a nativity scene atop a beer sign, or a portrait of the Virgin Mary emblazoned with the question, “Who’s Your Daddy?” If that’s too difficult, just stop in here, where it’s all over the walls, just everywhere, and then upstairs is the ping-pong table; you wait your turn while sitting on church pews. It’s an altogether strange place, but pleasantly so. Yuengling costs $3, which is nice, and it’s not even the cheapest thing on the menu (mac and cheese goes for $2). If the scene inside gets to be a bit much, flee out back and enjoy your refreshments on the patio.
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1540 Avenue Pl B-230 (678) 927-9131thegeneralmuir.com
Picture everything you love about a New York-style Jewish deli—the bagels with a schmear, the latkes with applesauce, and the pastrami sandwiches with a gut as thick as an encyclopedia, and then transport them to a gleaming, spankin’ new space near Emory University, where everything down to the warm chocolate babka is made in-house. Your grandpa had the New York deli—after a visit to the General Muir, you can proudly claim Atlanta’s.
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560 Gresham Ave. SE (404) 627-9911octopusbaratl.com
If you’re drinking deep into the night in this town, you’re either at a strip club or the Octopus Bar, a hip East Atlanta joint that doesn’t even open until 10:30 pm. Attached to a Vietnamese restaurant on a residential street, Octopus describes itself as “the intersection between a local eatery and punk rock fine dining.” The place does take its food seriously—duck eggs, braised and fried rabbit legs, monkfish liver torchon—but at this hour you might just want to show up for liquid refreshment. The booze menu comes hard with cocktails like the Dixie Cup #2 (bourbon, rum, peach, grapefruit, and bitters) and a deep selection of beers in a can. You can drink elsewhere in this nightlife-oriented neighborhood (we also love the endearingly grimy EARL), but here you’ll feel like you’ve discovered something. We’d be shocked if there’s another tourist in the building.
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“Atlanta’s hotel scene is fabulous if you like genteel luxury: You can’t throw a hush puppy without hitting a Ritz, Four Seasons, St. Regis, or InterContinental. Otherwise it’s a sea of mid-level chains. So just Airbnb it. Midtown is lousy with brand-new condos, and even a four-bedroom house in charming Virginia-Highland would cost less than one of those five-star rooms.”—Nick Marino, GQ associate editor
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3400 Around Lenox Rd. NE (404) 857-2800suitsupply.com
Suitsupply’s Georgia outpost delivers on all fronts: The spacious store boasts 7,000 square feet of suits and sportswear, and it’s their biggest store in America yet. Huge windows hint at the variety of wares available inside, and to ensure customers leave knowing their purchases fit perfectly, there’s an on-site tailor.
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2277 Peachtree Rd. NE (404) 948-1175 holeman-finch.com
Here’s how you do this: Go to Holeman & Finch for cocktails around 7:30. Immediately upon sitting down, order a hamburger. It will not be available until 10 p.m. But, if you don’t order it now, it will sell out. (They only make 24 a night, for those in the know.) As you wait, settle in, enjoy your drinks, and discover why the bar program has earned two straight James Beard nominations. If you’re starving, maybe snack on the tea-braised collards or the blazing $6 tribute to Nashville’s legendary Prince’s hot chicken. At length, a burger appears. Behold it, in all of its house-made glory. The H&F team bakes the bread, they grind the meat, they do everything in house except for the cheese, which is a Kraft single, as the good lord intended it to be.
Photo: Cakes & Ale
1170 Howell Mill Rd. NW (404) 994-3144 billyreid.com
Billy’s brand of Southern cool—soft-shouldered jackets, beat-up boots, and washed-down dress shirts—finds no better home than in BR’s Atlanta digs. The shop’s woodsy interior oozes with the vibe of a luxurious man cave: It’s the type of place where you can come in to buy a shirt and stay to sip on some whiskey.
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