2022 Atlanta Restaurants - The Food Enthusiast’s Long Weekend Guide

By Andrew Delaplaine

 

There are many people who are enthusiastic about food—the cooking of it, the preparation of it, the serving of it, and let’s not forget the eating of it.

 

 

But Andrew Delaplaine is the ultimate Food Enthusiast.

 

“This concise guidebook was exactly what I needed to make the most of my limited time in town.”

= Tanner Davis, Milwaukee

 

This is another of his books with spot-on reviews of the most exciting restaurants in town. Some will merit only a line or two, just to bring them to your attention. Others deserve a half page or more. 

 

“The fact that he doesn’t accept free meals in exchange for a good review makes all the difference in his something brutally accurate reviews.”

= Jerry Adams, El Paso

 

“Exciting” does not necessarily mean expensive. The area’s top spots get the recognition they so richly deserve (and that they so loudly demand), but there are plenty of “sensible alternatives” for those looking for good food handsomely prepared by cooks and chefs who really care what they “plate up” in the kitchen.

 

 

For those with a touch of Guy Fieri, Delaplaine ferrets out the best food for those on a budget. That dingy looking dive bar around the corner may serve up one of the juiciest burgers in town, perfect to wash down with a locally brewed craft beer.

 

 

Whatever your predilection or taste, cuisine of choice or your budget, you may rely on Andrew Delaplaine not to disappoint.

 

“Unlike the ‘honest’ reviews on site like Yelp, this writer knows what he’s talking about. He’s a professional,  with decades in the business, not an amateur.”

= Holly Titler, Los Angeles

 

Delaplaine dines anonymously at the Publisher’s expense. No restaurant listed in this series has paid a penny or given so much as a free meal to be included.

 

 

Bon Appétit!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Oct 18, 2021

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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2022

ATLANTA

Restaurants

The Food Enthusiast’s

Long Weekend Guide

Andrew Delaplaine

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Andrew Delaplaine is the Food Enthusiast.

When he’s not playing tennis,

he dines anonymously

at the Publisher’s (sometimes considerable) expense.

Senior Editor: James Cubby

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Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.

Cover photo by Joey Kyber on Unsplash

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The Food Enthusiast’s

Complete Restaurant Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

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The A to Z Listings

Ridiculously Extravagant

Sensible Alternatives

Quality Bargain Spots

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Nightlife

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Gay Nightlife

Bond Couple

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Introduction

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Hotlanta?

There’s no city that can lay a greater claim to represent what used to be termed the New South than the city of Atlanta.

It was burned down in the Civil War (or as my Fifth Grade teacher Mrs. McCutcheon sternly reminded me in the 1960s, the War of Northern Aggression) during General Sherman’s famous March to the Sea, and to this day remains the only major American city completely annihilated by war. Sherman burned all the railroad depots, uprooted the tracks, burned every business to the ground and for good measure to show that he meant it, burned down two-thirds of the private homes.

Perhaps that’s why Atlanta’s resurgence so captured the imagination. When it became the home of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta took on yet another level of symbolic importance.

Non-natives are familiar if not with Atlanta itself, then surely with its huge airport. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, with more than 88 million annual passengers. (By comparison, London’s Heathrow only has 64 million people passing through it.)

Hosting the Olympics in 1996 gave Atlanta an international profile and drove many upgrades to the city. The MARTA public transport system is efficient and a major addition to the city’s infrastructure. The World Congress Center was built to attract the most desirable convention business and it has worked.

It’s Hotlanta all right.

GETTING ABOUT

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Atlanta is unique in that it has 3 separate skylines. Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead each has its own skyline that would make an admirable statement by itself.

DOWNTOWN consists of Five Points, Centennial Park, Sweet Auburn, Castleberry Hill and the Hotel District. This is where you’ll find the state Capitol, City Hall, the CNN Center, Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola Museum. While most tourists congregate in Downtown, I advise you not to make