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The Anthem is made possible in part by El Tesoro West End & South Downtown, a neighborhood treasure serving good quality food at reasonable prices. See the menu here.
🌮 El Tesoro West End took a quick break this week for maintenance but they’re back and ready for Brunch (served ‘til 2pm every Sat & Sun).
🍕 Howell's Kitchen+Bar rolled out their August Specials: Watermelon Salad, Hang 10 Pizza, Melbourne Minis, and a Smoked Pork Chop with cornbread. Bonus, their parking garage is finally back open, first two hours free.
🥪 Today's the day. Bar Blanc's Friday French dip and Hugo spritz special runs 11am-2pm, pick East Coast (shaved 12-hour prime rib and jus) or West Coast (caramelized onions, melted cheese), then ride the day-drinking menu from there.
🍗 Lucky Star's Taiwanese Fried Chicken Sandwich is crispy, stacked, and built to get you through the afternoon.
🍹 Monday Night Grove has more than beer FYI, see their Spicy Pineapple Margarita, rimmed in Tajin and built with chili arbol.
🟨 Ladybird is coming to west midtown and dropped a fancy little teaser video promising more details to come soon.
🎯 This video from Ormsby's really struck a nerve. they've declared they're bringing the bar back to it's glory days. The reel is currently sitting at 392k views and 18.5k comments.
🅿️ South Downtown now has 2 hours of free parking across three lots via Bottle Rocket, at 194 Mitchell St (Popular Lot), 172 Mitchell St (Elm Lot), and 165 Mitchell St (Redbud Lot). Good news for anyone grabbing food or drinks at Glide, Broad Street BBQ, or El Tesoro.
🌮 Muchacho's "Sunset Sessions" happy hour is standing all day Monday and 3-6pm Tuesday-Friday, with $6 margs, $7 rotating cocktail, and $8 Tecate + tequila, plus nachos, crunchwraps, and tamale tots.
🍹 CTR Food Works turns the weekend into a mini getaway with a rum-based cocktail menu running Aug 15-16, plus a live DJ Saturday from 4-7pm.
🎲 Holiday Bar at The Interlock just rolled out a weekly lineup worth building your evenings around: Game Night with Your Crush (every other Tuesday), ½ off wine bottles (Wednesdays), and Sunset Sessions with rotating DJs (Thursdays).
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🎨 8/14 - Flat File Opening - Everything at Tennessee Gallery's new Flat File is $500 or less, and you can carry it home the same night. Opening night runs 6-9pm at Murphy Rail Studios with work from 11 artists including Candace Caston, Monica Campana, and Xenia Aims. Come early, it sells fast. | FREE | More Info
🎨 8/14 - Castleberry Hill Artist Market - Live art, stained glass, jewelry, henna, tarot, plants, and cocktails from a curated group of Atlanta makers, from 6-10pm at 172 Haynes St SW (across from the No Mas Cantina parking lot). Partnered with the Castleberry Hill Art Stroll. | FREE | More Info
🌺 8/15 - Luau Party - Chattahoochee Food Works goes tropical with rum-based drinks, island-inspired bites, and live music from 6-10pm at the Center bar. Hawaiian shirt optional, good times mandatory. | More Info
🌿 8/15 - Plant Sale + Makers Market - Garden Hoes and Us Plant Parents take over Round Trip Brewing Co. for a plant sale and swap, plus a makers market with local vendors, art, jewelry, and sweet treats. Trade school supplies, plant supplies, or classroom tech at the swap table, the bigger the donation, the bigger the plant. | FREE | More Info
🪡 8/15 - Leather Belt Making Class - Cut, stamp, and hand-burnish your own full-grain leather belt from scratch at KMM & Co., buckle included and personalized with your name or a custom stamp. Small group, capped at 10, and it's BYOB. | $175 | More Info
🌴 8/15 - Summer Send Off - For The Better and the Beltline Vintage Market team up at Monday Night "The Grove" for one last summer hang, drinks, food, games, and music, 1-4pm. Bring friends or come solo, you'll leave with a few new ones. | FREE | More Info
🛍️ 8/16 - Reclaimed Vintage & Artisan Market - Reclaimed ATL brings its curated pop-up, "THE EDIT," to Ghee Indian Kitchen in West Midtown, with vintage clothing, jewelry, art, and handmade goods from 10+ local vendors, plus a live painter. 10:30am-3pm. | FREE (RSVP required) | More Info
🀄 8/16 - Pickle & Tiles - Dill Dinkers and Kinsfolk team up for a ladies' pickleball and mahjong social, mahjong instruction 11:30-1pm, timed pickleball rotations 1-2:30pm, at 1200 White St SW #1000. No experience needed, tiles and light refreshments included. | $40 members / $50 visitors | More Info
🎤 8/18 - Open Mic Tuesdays - Socially Awkward Comedy's open mic returns to Boggs Social & Supply and keeps coming back through the fall (9/1, 9/15, 9/29, and more). Sign-up at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. | FREE | More Info
🧠 8/19 - Dirty South Trivia - Monday Night Grove runs trivia every Wednesday, 7-9pm, so if 8/19 doesn't work, there's always next week. | FREE | More Info
🍺 8/20 - Fizz Ed with Fonta Flora - Hop City's monthly beer tasting hits the West End with guest lecturer Jeremy Inzer from NC's Fonta Flora, pouring 6+ brews including the first taste of Hopgrasser, an exclusive Fonta Flora x Hop City collab IPA. 6-7:30pm at Boxcar. | $15 | Tickets
🗑️ Price of the trash is going up!? There’s a $53 million (🤯) budget shortfall for solid waste at the Atlanta Public Works Department, meaning trash pickup prices could go up by 23% by 2028.
📈 While the broader Atlanta region's growth is cooling off (up 1.0% this year, down from 1.2%), the City of Atlanta itself is bucking the trend, adding nearly 7,000 residents on the back of new multifamily housing in Midtown and along the Beltline. Fulton County posted the region's strongest growth at 1.9%.
🔑 85 Peachtree, a new boutique apartment community in the historic Bass Dry Goods Building, is now leasing in South Downtown. Tours are happening all week.
🏓 Good news if you were dragging your feet: Dill Dinkers just extended their tourney shirt deadline to 8/16 for the Labor Day Weekend White Out Tournament, three days of pickleball Sept 4-6, singles Friday, doubles Saturday, mixed Sunday. Wear white.
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