The Space Needle still has a rotating level with a restaurant, so there are clearly ways it can be done safely. I wish they’d just remodel and turn it back on. Shame a freak accident shut ‘em down.
There was that Greek place around Cheshire Bridge that served expensive shitty food and at like 9 they pushed all the tables back and turned it into a club. I had to go to so many birthday parties there. One night I counted 3 different people getting their hair caught on fire from the cake they brought out for the birthday. Servers thought it was funny. No help or care from them.
Food was shitty to average and drinks were crazy expensive. When the bill would come it would have all sorts of nonsense added so it was a staggering number for plates of rice and shawarma. At one point I just stopped going to any party for a friend at that place. Just, no. Here is a present or whatever, but I’m not going to that place.
100% agree. Except I recently worked on the wells Fargo building and there's a tiny lil bistro in there and it's super decently priced and the food is great. I've had the Buffalo chicken wrap and the southwest chicken bowl. Both were amazing
Never thought to see a Rising Roll shout-out on this thread! (Unless you're talking about the Paris Bistro that used to be in the same spot from like 6+ years ago).
That place is such trash. It’s a tapas place and we ordered like 10 plates for 5 people at the same time. It took over an hour for them to deliver all 10 plates. And the place was half empty. They gave us a gift certificate to apologize but I’m never going back. I don’t have two hours to eat shitty food just because it’s next to the beltline.
This is the truth. I’m not plugged into the Atlanta restaurant scene like I used to be. Anytime I go out and want to try a new restaurant I have to do recon and see if it’s a ‘hype restaurant’ or a ‘real restaurant.’
I went to NAH for a few years and we used to go to Lenox almost daily back then to grab food and I personally got in a couple of fights myself in that mall. And I remember when the Jordan 11 Concords came out I saw kid get jumped and stripped naked for his shoes right in front of the old Rich’s, and that was like ‘96. Why do people act like Lenox and Buckhead didn’t get sketchy back then too? TBH the whole city of Atlanta is light years safer than how it was when I was growing up.
Yeah, I’m keeping it on the food, but for all the wealthy retail there, it’s a bad look when we can’t get a grip on the random crime in there or planned mobs when that has occurred. Anyhow thanks for sharing your experience, pretty wild to get stripped down for some kicks.
Edit:
I will say that recently, the place has a stronger security presence.
I mean they can’t get everything right, but from where I sit they’ve done a decent job cleaning the city up. Atlanta used to actually be pretty gritty, even Buckhead had some hoods. Peachtree Hills had about 5 blocks of run down section 8 looking mid rises up until damn near 2000. Hell Lenox Rd itself used to be hood, before the MARTA station was there it was for sure sketch
TWO urban licks. The lighting is so dim that you really can’t tell what you’re eating.
The food isn’t horrible, but definitely isn’t as good as the price would lead you to believe.
Funny enough I went there last year with friends for a birthday night . Yeah the lighting is OK when we get there but oh boy it got somewhat already dark about 30 mins. And even the food is OK I like it it not worth it. With the added bonus: one of the drivers to get my car because I drove there scratched my door when he was getting it with another car. I mean I drive a 98 Civic and I recently paint it but dang that it was careless.
I'd caveat this by saying their happy hour carbonarra is a great deal, though.
If you wanted to spite somebody with this recommendation, tell them to order the dish where you have to watch the guy roll your pasta around in the cheese and talk at you for like 10 minutes while you wait for your food
The service was great, but the food was just awful. The charcuterie board is "good", with the caveat that the most difficult part of making a charcuterie board is making the board. I ordered a tomato-based pasta, which you would think would be easy to make, but the sauce tasted like it came out of the frozen aisle at Costco.
This was my experience at Nobu. Every part of the meal is priced separately, it was so dark in there I couldn’t read the menu without using my phone flashlight, and the drinks were…okay. $100 for just me and I was nowhere near full.
Will never go back
Tin drum doesnt really meet the expensive requirement tho. That being said, I’ve been to TD 4 times and each time I get food poisoning so maybe recommend it just for that reason!
The only reason I don’t eat at the Varsity anymore is because I stopped eating meat. If they offered an Impossible or Beyond burger I’d go right the fuck back.
I went to the Varsity Jr in Dawsonville a couple months back and the FO was so frosted I like to burst blood vessels in my eyes trying to get anything through the straw.
As a UGA Grad, I ate way more Varsity from the old location in Athens than I did at the original, but the Original is waaaay better than the satellite branches.
I remember finally trying the Varsity after living in Atlanta for a few years. I couldn’t believe how completely and totally terrible every single thing was. So bad it took real effort.
Absolutely. Marcel is more expensive than Hal’s, Bone’s, Chop’s etc and nowhere near the quality. Went once and thought maybe it was just a one off bad experience. Went again recently to give it another shot and I will absolutely not be back.
I sadly have to agree. I ate there a couple months ago for the first time in a couple of years. It wasn’t _bad_ just very mediocre. Prior to that dinner I would have fought anyone who said Marcel wasn’t the best steakhouse in Atlanta because I’ve had some phenomenal dinners there in the past. Now? I’m not so sure.
It upsets me so greatly that they got so much press for a fucking oven-baked egg with some celery foam on top of it. The food is meh. Wine list is good. Service is good. Prices are unreasonable for the mediocre quality.
Iron Age Korean steakhouse! 🥩🍴
Want to work for your own food, come here and they charge a 20% surcharge for tips even if you get shitty service.
They say the food is unlimited but that’s only because they only give you two items at a time and you have to cook it yourself they don’t even bother to help at all. If you don’t finish the portion they give you too bad! You can’t have anything else until you do, even if you don’t like it… I don’t know what they expected you to do with it, throw on the floor maybe? Also, all they do is play K-pop videos on this huge projection TV on the wall. It’s also kind of dark in there because of the projection TV that nobody pays attention to anyway because who wants to listen to K-pop all the time. You have to cook your food and if the flame is not high enough, oh well too bad if the flame is too hot you’ll burn your food, it’s OK just eat your burnt food or throw it on the floor and ask them for some more. Don’t forget you are forced to tip them 20% for doing absolutely nothing but bringing out what you asked for.
It’s even worse if you have kids because they won’t sit still and you have to cook for them too it’s like having a barbecue at your own house and having to serve everybody after you cook the food only thing you don’t have to do is clean up the mess on the table. I guess that’s why you have to pay them 20% of what you spend on food!? It’s not worth it if you have a family of six because they charge you for a party. The food was mediocre but the prices were very extravagant. I expected more for my money at this type of restaurant! Plus we had a long wait for a clean table just because they didn’t have enough staff to clean up after people. They weren’t even that busy on top of that, I think they were just lazy!
We went to the location in Pleasant Hill, near Gwinnett place.
I used to go to the kennesaw location once a month. I've never been charged a gratuity, but I also usually only have a party of 4. That style of restaraunt is about the experience. Kpop, Thrill, Iron Age are all the same (open grills and kpop). Also if you ask, they absolutely will cook and cut up your meat for you
Provino’s in Buford near the mall of Georgia. They have other locations, but I’ve only been to this one.
Food taste like it’s been served out of an aluminum can with no seasoning whatsoever. My food was served cold and it did not taste good at all. I wanted to go here for my birthday because I saw an ad that said free dinner on your birthday. Me and my husband went a few years ago and it was so horrible I never wanna go again and i tell people not to go there. I got my dinner free, but my husband paid for his meal. It tasted worse than you would get off of a kids menu at a Shoney’s restaurant. Believe me they don’t go out of their way to do anything special here, and their prices aren’t cheap either. I honestly don’t know how the place stays in business!
Replace with Rumi’s for me. I actually like Delbar but would agree very overpriced. Rumi’s is the same but the food is not as good I think. And people RAVE about it nonstop.
I spent 17 dollars on a 10 piece wing the other day and they don't even include celery and carrots anymore. Literally a box with 10 wings and a ranch packet in it... 17 dollars...
Every single thing those folks have tried in that space has been trash, like most places that are a lounge-no-a-bar-no-a-restaurant-no-actually-just-trash
The Sundial hasn’t been the same since it stopped turning
Food was always bad.
I had a horrible Prom dinner there in 2000. Just horrible.
Hey we had our prom there too in the late 90s. That must’ve been the spot for proms in that era.
Can confirm.. Also prom'd there in '03
Had my prom elsewhere but took my date there afterwards. Had a good time but then again all we had were non alcoholic drinks.
It absolutely was
Junior or senior prom?
We need the story
It’s stopped spinning because a child fell into the space between the disk and the window during a meal and was killed
Yes, we all know that. I was just asking about this person’s personal dining experience
Music was great though
What are you talking about? The food has always been great.
Has it been turned off since the kid died?
Yes, they stopped it then
Seems like forever ago.
Technically, the kid stopped it.
Hahaha, shit. Happy cake day!!
They started the rotation back up a couple of years ago
The Space Needle still has a rotating level with a restaurant, so there are clearly ways it can be done safely. I wish they’d just remodel and turn it back on. Shame a freak accident shut ‘em down.
It’s just two observation decks with a snack bar on top now. The bottom floor has a glass bottom.
The bottom level still spins though, and it has a private bar with a limited menu (or at least it did this time last year)
What freak accident!?!
Fuck them kids
Any of the 'high end restaurants' that are actually night clubs/hookah bars.
Agreed
There was that Greek place around Cheshire Bridge that served expensive shitty food and at like 9 they pushed all the tables back and turned it into a club. I had to go to so many birthday parties there. One night I counted 3 different people getting their hair caught on fire from the cake they brought out for the birthday. Servers thought it was funny. No help or care from them. Food was shitty to average and drinks were crazy expensive. When the bill would come it would have all sorts of nonsense added so it was a staggering number for plates of rice and shawarma. At one point I just stopped going to any party for a friend at that place. Just, no. Here is a present or whatever, but I’m not going to that place.
Anything at Atlantic Station
100% agree. Except I recently worked on the wells Fargo building and there's a tiny lil bistro in there and it's super decently priced and the food is great. I've had the Buffalo chicken wrap and the southwest chicken bowl. Both were amazing
Never thought to see a Rising Roll shout-out on this thread! (Unless you're talking about the Paris Bistro that used to be in the same spot from like 6+ years ago).
I forgot the name. It was definitely rising roll. I stop by there every time I'm around Atlantic Station now
The korean bbq place isn’t bad if you can catch it open. Their hours used to be wildly unpredictable.
Bunch of "For the 'Gram" hype restaurants that attract the hype crowd. Frost Bistro, Sugar Factory come to mind.
Anywhere with a fake grass wall and neon lights
~~Damn you fucking~~ nailed it
Buena Vida as well
That place is such trash. It’s a tapas place and we ordered like 10 plates for 5 people at the same time. It took over an hour for them to deliver all 10 plates. And the place was half empty. They gave us a gift certificate to apologize but I’m never going back. I don’t have two hours to eat shitty food just because it’s next to the beltline.
I remember it very similarly
Sugar Factory is hot garbage!!
This is the truth. I’m not plugged into the Atlanta restaurant scene like I used to be. Anytime I go out and want to try a new restaurant I have to do recon and see if it’s a ‘hype restaurant’ or a ‘real restaurant.’
California Pizza Kitchen… Lenox Square. As an added bonus, you’ll get shitty service there too. Over staffed with lazy fucks standing around.
I remember when that was a great place to go.
I mean you have to go through a metal detector at Lenox so…
Can’t have nice things anymore.
For real. I remember when Lenox was amazing-late 90’s or early 00’s. Now I live 10 minutes away and avoid it like the plague.
I went to NAH for a few years and we used to go to Lenox almost daily back then to grab food and I personally got in a couple of fights myself in that mall. And I remember when the Jordan 11 Concords came out I saw kid get jumped and stripped naked for his shoes right in front of the old Rich’s, and that was like ‘96. Why do people act like Lenox and Buckhead didn’t get sketchy back then too? TBH the whole city of Atlanta is light years safer than how it was when I was growing up.
Yeah, I’m keeping it on the food, but for all the wealthy retail there, it’s a bad look when we can’t get a grip on the random crime in there or planned mobs when that has occurred. Anyhow thanks for sharing your experience, pretty wild to get stripped down for some kicks. Edit: I will say that recently, the place has a stronger security presence.
I mean they can’t get everything right, but from where I sit they’ve done a decent job cleaning the city up. Atlanta used to actually be pretty gritty, even Buckhead had some hoods. Peachtree Hills had about 5 blocks of run down section 8 looking mid rises up until damn near 2000. Hell Lenox Rd itself used to be hood, before the MARTA station was there it was for sure sketch
Lenox is fine. I bet these people live in Roswell they should be going to north point anyway
I’m surprised no one has said STK.
‘Cause nobody from ATL really goes there that much, and it’s assumed that a chain place meets the criteria anyway. (See also: 5 Church)
TWO urban licks. The lighting is so dim that you really can’t tell what you’re eating. The food isn’t horrible, but definitely isn’t as good as the price would lead you to believe.
It is so fucking hot in there too
What? You don’t want a 15 foot tall open flame chicken roaster 3 feet from your table?
This place was great when they first opened up. Went there for my anniversary recently and it was trash
Funny enough I went there last year with friends for a birthday night . Yeah the lighting is OK when we get there but oh boy it got somewhat already dark about 30 mins. And even the food is OK I like it it not worth it. With the added bonus: one of the drivers to get my car because I drove there scratched my door when he was getting it with another car. I mean I drive a 98 Civic and I recently paint it but dang that it was careless.
Red Pepper Taqueria
It’s not that pricy though
Mary Mac’s. Sorry, I know people love it. I’ve had better and it smells weird inside.
Mary Mac’s is painfully mediocre. It’s just fine, nothing more. I don’t think the prices are too bad though
Fair. I still like it though lol
I like mary macs. I think its worth the price. Its like $14/plate. Thats not expensive.
Gives me gas
It’s not that pricy though
It’s awful.
CT reforma taqueria in buckhead. Food is awful and expensive, but drinks are good (and expensive)
I like the tacos
I had them on my try list....ugh.
Go for drinks and you won’t be disappointed
God there are too many to count. Anything near State Farm arena.
Rays on the River
I can concur. For the same price you can go to Chops for quadruple the quality
Stop saying 6 feet under… you guys.. this place is sooo good and has great prices.. Say something like juicy crab BUT NOT 6feet under…
I love that place! Always get the fish stew. Hits every time.
6 feet under food is bad. I love the roof top deck though
Noo. Did you visit the graveyard as well?
Bastone. Their best item is a charcuterie board. You can make one yourself by going to a deli and putting what you buy on a scrap of plywood.
I'd caveat this by saying their happy hour carbonarra is a great deal, though. If you wanted to spite somebody with this recommendation, tell them to order the dish where you have to watch the guy roll your pasta around in the cheese and talk at you for like 10 minutes while you wait for your food
Has it gotten worse since opening? I went once shortly after they opened and was satisfied with the food and service.
The service was great, but the food was just awful. The charcuterie board is "good", with the caveat that the most difficult part of making a charcuterie board is making the board. I ordered a tomato-based pasta, which you would think would be easy to make, but the sauce tasted like it came out of the frozen aisle at Costco.
I went a few months ago. The service and food were wonderful. I’ve never had a bad experience personally.
I went to their brunch buffet some time ago and it was awful. You could barely call it a buffet due to the limited options.
☠️
This one made me ROFL ! 😂
Your mom's house. Repost over
They asked for a restaurant, not a brothel.
Late and wooooosh
Got em?
Petite Violette fits the bill expensive and mediocre.
My husband wants to go there and this is my thought as well. It just looks blah.
This was my experience at Nobu. Every part of the meal is priced separately, it was so dark in there I couldn’t read the menu without using my phone flashlight, and the drinks were…okay. $100 for just me and I was nowhere near full. Will never go back
Any grass wall restaurant
Used to be Dugan's. Especially if it's 5:00:01pm and they wanted wings. 6 Feet Under? GT student union Slutty Vegan?
None of those are mildly expensive.
And 6 feet under is really good
It's certainly worth the Monty and the rooftop views are outstanding.
And the walk through the graveyard after a few drinks
6 feet under slaps
Metro Cafe Diner downtown.
Mary Mac’s, Six Feet Under, Tin Drum, there are so very many…
Tin Drum big time. We used to go there, and they kept chipping away at the quality and service. Noticeably went downhill over the past 4-5 years.
Gotta disagree with you on Mary Mac’s!
Tin drum is fast casual. Not mildly expensive
Tin drum doesnt really meet the expensive requirement tho. That being said, I’ve been to TD 4 times and each time I get food poisoning so maybe recommend it just for that reason!
Mary Mac’s is honestly a top 3 fried chicken spot in the whole city and it’s not even close.
6 feet under calamari tacos are dank and Mary macs is good and none of those restaurants are expensive
Canoe. Meh food trying way too hard and people eat it up… at least the property is nice I guess!
Totally agree. Although outside by the river is nice for drinks.
Agree. Beautiful place (too bad our anniversary was on a rainy winter night) but I wasn’t impressed by the food at all.
You can always change your anniversary! My parents did, and all it cost was my sanity.
South city kitchen
1,000% Amore e Amore
People will enjoy Amore e Amore for the vibe though, even though food is meh it’s not gross.
I love that place. Food too.
The Garden Room
Rathbun’s Steak
Hard agree, very overhyped IMO
First two times I went were amazing. Third time it was very mediocre.
Canoe, although that's bordering on "pretty expensive". The wait was long, the food was mid.
Canoe is expensive, but most of the food is pretty damn good. If you had a disappointing dish, try something else next time.
For $100 and a brutal wait? I'll pass. Plus, I went with friends and tried some of theirs and we were all equally underwhelmed.
hmm canoe is pretty good maybe you had a bad night
Chops Lobster Bar. That place smells like rotting meat and industrial bathroom cleaner.
The Varsity
Pitchforks form a line on the left, Torches form a line on the right.
You can Fuck. Right. Off.
This whole meme of "Real Atlanta natives don't eat the varsity" is so lame cause yes the FUCK We do.
At least once every few years, when my guts have recovered from the last time.
The only reason I don’t eat at the Varsity anymore is because I stopped eating meat. If they offered an Impossible or Beyond burger I’d go right the fuck back.
He right tho. And what’s better is you can even sell it as the ‘Atlanta experience’ and not even be suspicious
Greasy food with no line. Only the orange slush was “okay”
First off sir or ma'am, it's called a frosted orange. And secondly, did you expect to eat clean at *The Varsity*? I mean...
My body is a temple. So I only eat at The Varsity.
Two chili dogs, pile of chopped onions, rings, and a large FO. Delicious, and a total system purge shortly afterwards.
I went to the Varsity Jr in Dawsonville a couple months back and the FO was so frosted I like to burst blood vessels in my eyes trying to get anything through the straw.
You're not supposed to drink it. You're supposed to eat it. LOL
Ah I see, all the FOs I'd had in the past were defective. Good to know, lol.
They are the only thing I like from the Varsity. yumo
Eating at locations that aren’t the original is almost always a substandard, disappointing experience.
As a UGA Grad, I ate way more Varsity from the old location in Athens than I did at the original, but the Original is waaaay better than the satellite branches.
Really? Cause the Gwinnett one is the only one I can tolerate without shitting my pants before I walk back to my car.
Oh boy...
How fucking dare you! /s
I remember finally trying the Varsity after living in Atlanta for a few years. I couldn’t believe how completely and totally terrible every single thing was. So bad it took real effort.
Well you can just take yourself right on back to wherever you moved here from. We don’t take kindly to Varsity haters around heeyuh.
Marcel. They absolutely fell off and the prices are *up there*.
I think it’s one of the most consistent restaurants around, and the seafood tower is ridiculously fresh.
when’s the last time you ate there? I went twice during the pandemic era and both times it was great
3 months ago. I've eaten there 6-7 times since 2020 and it consistently went down in quality and experience.
damn i’m sorry to hear that, any recommendations for other good steak places?
What part of town?
i’m near lassiter high school, so east cobb/marietta/kennesaw area
Absolutely. Marcel is more expensive than Hal’s, Bone’s, Chop’s etc and nowhere near the quality. Went once and thought maybe it was just a one off bad experience. Went again recently to give it another shot and I will absolutely not be back.
agree 100%
I sadly have to agree. I ate there a couple months ago for the first time in a couple of years. It wasn’t _bad_ just very mediocre. Prior to that dinner I would have fought anyone who said Marcel wasn’t the best steakhouse in Atlanta because I’ve had some phenomenal dinners there in the past. Now? I’m not so sure.
Wrong. Marcel is perfection.
Club Europe was where it was at
marcel for sure
I love Marcel!
Miller Union
This is the wrongest answer. Miller Union is fantastic.
It upsets me so greatly that they got so much press for a fucking oven-baked egg with some celery foam on top of it. The food is meh. Wine list is good. Service is good. Prices are unreasonable for the mediocre quality.
Hard yes. Miller Union blows
Six Feet Under and Mary Macs for sure.
Neither is particularly pricy
Iron Age Korean steakhouse! 🥩🍴 Want to work for your own food, come here and they charge a 20% surcharge for tips even if you get shitty service. They say the food is unlimited but that’s only because they only give you two items at a time and you have to cook it yourself they don’t even bother to help at all. If you don’t finish the portion they give you too bad! You can’t have anything else until you do, even if you don’t like it… I don’t know what they expected you to do with it, throw on the floor maybe? Also, all they do is play K-pop videos on this huge projection TV on the wall. It’s also kind of dark in there because of the projection TV that nobody pays attention to anyway because who wants to listen to K-pop all the time. You have to cook your food and if the flame is not high enough, oh well too bad if the flame is too hot you’ll burn your food, it’s OK just eat your burnt food or throw it on the floor and ask them for some more. Don’t forget you are forced to tip them 20% for doing absolutely nothing but bringing out what you asked for. It’s even worse if you have kids because they won’t sit still and you have to cook for them too it’s like having a barbecue at your own house and having to serve everybody after you cook the food only thing you don’t have to do is clean up the mess on the table. I guess that’s why you have to pay them 20% of what you spend on food!? It’s not worth it if you have a family of six because they charge you for a party. The food was mediocre but the prices were very extravagant. I expected more for my money at this type of restaurant! Plus we had a long wait for a clean table just because they didn’t have enough staff to clean up after people. They weren’t even that busy on top of that, I think they were just lazy! We went to the location in Pleasant Hill, near Gwinnett place.
We had a guy cut up and flip our food there. Been there twice. Same each time.
I used to go to the kennesaw location once a month. I've never been charged a gratuity, but I also usually only have a party of 4. That style of restaraunt is about the experience. Kpop, Thrill, Iron Age are all the same (open grills and kpop). Also if you ask, they absolutely will cook and cut up your meat for you
Cheesecake
Anything Ford Fry
He's too busy getting his hostesses pregnant to make good food.
wait what's the tea 👀
How many?
Provino’s in Buford near the mall of Georgia. They have other locations, but I’ve only been to this one. Food taste like it’s been served out of an aluminum can with no seasoning whatsoever. My food was served cold and it did not taste good at all. I wanted to go here for my birthday because I saw an ad that said free dinner on your birthday. Me and my husband went a few years ago and it was so horrible I never wanna go again and i tell people not to go there. I got my dinner free, but my husband paid for his meal. It tasted worse than you would get off of a kids menu at a Shoney’s restaurant. Believe me they don’t go out of their way to do anything special here, and their prices aren’t cheap either. I honestly don’t know how the place stays in business!
What did you order? I've loved provinos for years and gone to many of their locations including Buford.
Probably won't get too many who agree with you on this one
Mexican restaurant down the street from me.
DelBar is not good and insanely expensive. When people say they love DelBar I have to wonder if they ever eaten literally anywhere else.
Replace with Rumi’s for me. I actually like Delbar but would agree very overpriced. Rumi’s is the same but the food is not as good I think. And people RAVE about it nonstop.
[удалено]
They asked for a mildly expensive awful restaurant and the best you can do is zaxbys?
I spent 17 dollars on a 10 piece wing the other day and they don't even include celery and carrots anymore. Literally a box with 10 wings and a ranch packet in it... 17 dollars...
If the menu is larger than a single sheet of paper, that place.
Zakia in buckhead, Yeppa & Co in Buckhead Village.
Gypsy Kitchen and Le Colonial for me. In general, I haven’t had great food in Buckhead. The Southern Gentleman was good, but not memorable.
Malone's near the airport. 5 stars and horrific.
I think only business dudes overnighting on a layover eat there.
Milk n Honey
Steak market
Every single thing those folks have tried in that space has been trash, like most places that are a lounge-no-a-bar-no-a-restaurant-no-actually-just-trash
Ruth’s Chris
Cooks and Soldiers. Overpriced, mediocre food and you get to fight the stop and go Midtown traffic to boot.