Dining Downtown

• Review
• Thursday, June 05, 2008

You won't find me writing about downtown Atlanta very much...if it's for no other reason than, there isn't much to do downtown. You visit, downtown, see a basketball game, maybe go to a meeting, than any long time Atlantatan would most likely advise you do get out of dodge and leave. In past postings, I wrote about Phillips Arena and a spot I like a great deal named Thrive.

But here I am, encouraging you and I to give downtown Atlanta another shot. The perfect time to do say may be Downtown Atlanta's 2008 Restaurant Week, beginning on July 21st and ending on July 27th.

The promotion, encouraging diners to think about downtown as a dining option is a heck of deal. For a paltry $25.00 dollars per person, there will be a choice of a three course meal at participating restaurants. Pretty good when you consider than many on the list have entrees in that range on a nightly basis. Recommendations are recommended, especially if you're thinking of going out Thursday through Sunday.

Having admittedly not spent enough time in the downtown Atlanta restaurant scene to make a trustworthy recommendation, I've attached the website, with downloadable menus. I can tell you that I am thinking of trying Spoon, and or City Grill-both I've heard are good from friends living in the area. Last time I looked on the website, I saw they added the Thrive as well-which I can honestly say is a great experience and very hip if that's your type of thing.

I'm looking forward to it, and hope to see you in the dog days of summer downtown.

http://www.atlantadowntown.com/darw/menus.html