Our breakfast of choice: a heaping bowl of BBQ shrimp & cheese grits or steak hash and eggs. Read more.
2012 Father's Day Beer Dinner During Father’s Day weekend Max Lager’s will be offering a three-course dinner and beer pairing for $40. Read more.
Creative Loafing Drink Week 2012 Sunday, 5/20: Atlanta Nosh12 - 3pm. Sample street food from all over the globe, and unique fusions. $5 Svedka cocktails served starting at 12:30pm. Read more.
Delightfully greasy burgers, eggs, grits, and other diner favorites stave off oncoming hangovers and settle woozy, boozy tummies. Read more.
CL Best of Atlanta 2010 winner: Best evolution of farm-to-table dining. Classic Southern dishes, fluffy biscuits and the creamiest local creamed corn translated to affordable, neighborhood dining Read more.
We love coming here, staying at the Twelve Hotel, burning money fast in the shops and raising toasts at the restaurants.
Lepre*Con 2012. Park Tavern will have live bands, multiple DJs, Irish Car Bombs, and beer galore on St. Patty's Day. Rowdy party games and other shenanigans will be going on throughout the day. Read more.
ShamRock the Station. Atlantic Station is teaming up with Meehan's Public House for their first full-on St. Patrick's Day party in 2012. Festivities Start at noon. Read more.
The Apache-style burger at Grindhouse Killer Burgers is a freshly ground hamburger patty (two of them, if you want) is topped with roasted Hatch green chilies, pepper jack cheese and grilled onions. Read more.
The Plaza Theatre shopping center was the first "mall" in Atlanta to have off-street parking.
It's got a quirky, vegetarian-friendly menu, but the laid-back, smoky nighttime bar scene is what brings in scruffy Cabbagetown regulars. Read more.
Excellent entrees are the farm egg a la plancha, the kabocha squash, and the half chicken entrée. The muscat is great with the anchovies. On Sunday nights, bottles are half off.
The Vegetable plate takes the best fresh veggies of the day, cooks each one to bring out its absolute best, then piles them high in a skillet of garden delight. Read more.
"The Cockroaches" tix were released to a line at the box office for a just-announced Rolling Stones concert. The Stones ended up playing to a confused crowd of 4,000 on their "Some Girls" tour in '78
IMOS Cask Tapping. The St. Patrick's Day Parade begins in front of Max Lager's doorsteps, and the bar is celebrating with specialty beers. At noon they will be tapping three casks Read more.
The new chef at the Terrace restaurant in Ellis Hotel, Jon Wolf, is turning out a menu that will look familiar to anyone well-versed in New Southern cuisine: Shrimp and grits, pork belly, pan-seared G Read more.
The best thing since sliced bread: Creative Loafing was first published in Atlanta in 1972.
The building that houses Parish Food and Goods is over 100 years old. It was originally a piping factory along the railroad. It's also won restoration awards for keeping the original integrity.
Try SweetWater 420 Extra Pale Ale bread ($3.49 per loaf). It's worth seeking out. Read more.
