Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Restaurants / Events Yes, we're open till 10 p.m. -- but to ghosts only
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Wed, Aug 8, 2007 at 1:26 PM
The image at right is a metaphor. It's the ghostly silhouette of a former figure on the side of a building in downtown Atlanta, which seems to become a ghost town every night after all the worker bees fly back out to Alpharetta.
In the last three months or so, I've tried to dine in three different downtown restaurants. In each case, I called the restaurant ahead to make sure it would be open that evening. And each time, I found it closed. The latest was the new Sugar on Trinity Avenue.
We did find Ted's Montana Grill open, but sparsely patronized, to say the least, as you can tell by the chilled-out staff in the photo above. Apparently, I'm the only Atlantan who hasn't eaten in Ted Turner's buffalo-meat eatery until now. You can read about it in next week's paper.
Don't forget next week (Aug. 13-19) is Downtown Atlanta Restaurant Week. Ted's does not seem to be among the restaurants participating, but there are a bunch of quality places, including newbies like Luckie Food Lounge and French American Brasserie, that will be serving three-course meals for only $25. You can find the list of participants here. Make your reservations now. It will be one of those rare weeks downtown isn't a ghost town.
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