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Haaaaaaaapy Friday Folks! We did it. We made it through another week. Heat advisories and all. My wife is a teacher and heat advisory = no outdoor recess. So if you’re wondering why your kids have a little extra energy or your teacher friends have a little less… it might be due to that.
Anyway…. we’ve got a great weekend ahead of us. Let’s into this week’s Anthem 👇
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 does Birria Thursday at all 3 locations and that’s one of the few things that will get me to switch it up from my go-to order (the steak mulita).
🍰 Boxcar's new dessert menu is stacked: flaming pineapple rum butter cake, Guinness caramel bread pudding, Biscoff blondie, and root beer or Coke floats you can spike.
🍕 Skip the midweek cooking. Atwoods Pizza has a pizza + bottle of wine for $20 every Wednesday, 5 to 9 p.m.
🌽 Momonoki really wants you to embrace corn season: corn ice cream, corn croissant, and now a corn miso cocktail.
🍷 Lucky Star's Lucky Hour is the move for a late-night stop in West Midtown: discounted sips and bites Wednesday through Saturday, 8 to 10 p.m.
🍕 &pizza is coming to the Interlock in West Midtown thanks to a pair of Atlanta entrepreneurs.
🌮 Muchacho's Sunset Sessions run Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 6 p.m., with $7 margaritas and $6 tacos + tequila shots. And if Monday's more your speed, Muchacho Mondays go all day, all night.
🍢 Cooks & Soldiers’ Txikiteo happy hour is an "evening ritual inspired by the Basque Country," which is a fancy way of saying $7 drinks and pintxos Monday through Friday, 5 to 7 p.m.
🥪 Little Rey's new limited-run item is the Macha Pork Cubano: smoked pork shoulder, salsa macha, pickles, mustard, cilantro, and onion on a torta-style bun, available at all locations for a limited time.
🍺 Urban Grind's BrewBox at Pittsburgh Yards is now serving alcohol, a rotating selection of beers, wines, and canned cocktails alongside their coffee.
🍵 Spiller Park has two new items: a Frosted Sugar Cookie (chewy sugar cookie, lemon buttercream, rainbow sprinkles) available at all shops, and a Matcha Colada, iced matcha with pineapple syrup and coconut cold foam.
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🛍️ 8/21 - Gurl 2 Girl Mini Market - Terminal South's Switchman Hall Food Collective hosts an evening of women-owned vendor shopping, food hall dinner, and a community game night, 5 to 8 p.m. | FREE | More Info
🎸 8/21 - Glide's Honky Tonk Happy Hour - Glide throws open the honky tonks downtown ahead of the Chris Stapleton show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, spinning country deep cuts, two-steppers, and outlaw music starting at 4 p.m. | More Info
🎶 8/21 - Lee + White Summer Fridays - Clock out and grab your crew: live DJs Halftime and So. Jolene, plus food and drinks at the Food Hall, 5 to 9 p.m. | FREE | More Info
💃 8/22 - Salsa Night - "Beginner-friendly, zero judgement, all the joy." Terminal South's free salsa class takes over the Switchman Hall patio, 7 to 8 p.m. | FREE | More Info
🪚 8/23 - Intro to Woodworking: Wood Basics & Four Squaring - Mass Collective's beginner-friendly woodworking class, taught by Atlantic Fine Woods co-founder Atelier Sissoko, 7 to 10 p.m. | More Info
🪴 8/23 - Plantini at Seed Atlanta - Free plants, free espresso martinis, vendors, and 20% off in-store, now with Nüro the Genius making his DJ debut. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Holiday Bar. | $25 | More Info
🛍️ 8/23 - ArtWell Farmers Market - Fresh produce, local makers, and wellness, all under one roof at Terminal South, indoors with free parking, 12 to 3 p.m. | FREE | More Info
🌿 8/23 - Georgia Plant Trade & Sales Market - Plants, art, and handmade goods from local vendors at Wild Heaven West End, plus a potting class and free plant giveaways, 12 to 5 p.m. | FREE | More Info
👗 8/23 - Back to Class 3000 Vintage Market - Beltline Vintage Market takes over Monday Night Grove with 10+ vendors, live music, pizza & wings, and free parking, 2 to 8 p.m. | FREE | More Info
🐉 8/26 - Scraplanta's Con Crunch - DragonCon costume not finished? The Scraplet has glue guns, sewing machines, and con experts on-site to help you pull it together, 6 to 8 p.m. | More Info
🥃 8/27 - Old Fourth Distillery x DragonCon Bourbon Party - Ormsby's hosts the launch party for O4D x DragonCon Bourbon: free drink for the first 100, happy hour with small bites 6-7pm, a costume contest at 8pm, giveaways, and a bourbon scavenger hunt, 6 to 10 p.m. | FREE | More Info
🎤 The Masquerade is running a Back to School BOGO sale on August 28th, buy one ticket get one free on a stacked list of shows. Box office is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. that day, in person only.
📢 Got a food concept Atlanta needs to try? Smorgasburg ATL is taking vendor applications now for the 2026 Fall Season, building toward their September 12th reopening.
🧸 Brown Toy Box is officially open at 211 Mitchell Street in South Downtown. It's an educational toy store, the kind that makes you wish you were a kid again.
🅿️ Upper West Market wants you to know: Monday through Friday, the first 30 minutes of parking is free, and proceeds support their purveyors, small businesses, and farmers. Open Sunday-Friday 10a-6p, Saturday 8a-6p.
👔 Azalea Fresh Market's new Campbellton Road location is hiring across the board, kitchen staff, produce manager, grocery manager, butcher, and more. Meet the team at their hiring fair August 26th, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration required.
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Connor