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Bonus Pointe

Bonus Pointe

There she is. The great white whale. She’s huge. Majestic, even. With her cool breezes and ample outdoor seating and smoked Peruvian chickens... She’s a metaphorical whale. And her name is Tavernpointe, a new garrison of meat, classic drinks and a whole lot of patio magic from the Seven Lamps and Grain guys, slated to soft-open next Friday in Midtown.

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Home Goods

Home Goods

There’s nothing like Grandma’s house for some fried chicken. Especially when the house has lots of gin and your grandmother is Kevin Gillespie. Make yourself at home at Revival, an old house that the good chef Gillespie is about to fill with Southern comfort food and Cheerwine libations, opening Thursday in Decatur. (Here’s a nice slideshow for you

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Tea’s Company

Tea’s Company

You’re probably already aware of the calming properties of tea. And the delicious properties of duck salad sandwiches. So let’s just get right into this... Full steam ahead to Tipple & Rose Tea Parlor + Apothecary, the tea version of a coffee shop where you’ll hang out, sip herbal things and eat crumpets, soft-opening Friday in Virginia Highland. (The

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Oy Meets World

Oy Meets World

Six-egg Philly cheesesteak omelet covered in queso. Remember that name. You’ll want to reference it tomorrow morning at Oy, a new place of oversize and absurdly elaborate versions of classic breakfast and lunch foods, now open in Vinings. (Here’s a damn-near-edible slideshow and a menu.) This may or may not be the diner of your dreams. Guess it depends on

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Alt Nation

Alt Nation

Dear Regular Burgers, You’ve done a great job all these years. Really, you have. But... we’re going to ask you to sit this one out. Because “this one” refers to the Alternative Burgers Slideshow, a pictorial lineup of burgers that aren’t made with beef patties, but are made with things like ostrich and duck and other delicious edible materials.

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Chrome Sweet Chrome

Chrome Sweet Chrome

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Chrome Yellow Trading Co. Oh, you have. Fair enough. What about this one? Chrome Yellow Trading Co. has some shiny new digs that involve Stumptown coffee on one side and a bunch of nice clothes on the other. It’s soft-opening tomorrow, it looks exactly like this, and our game is over now. You know these guys. They used to

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Roast Office

Roast Office

This is the last sentence you’ll read before learning about a magical new place to hang out and drink coffee. Told you. Here’s Revelator Coffee Company, an industrial fortress of air, light, joy, sandwiches, sociable humans and drinkable caffeine, soft-opening Monday and fully opening next Wednesday on the Westside. You’ll find it just across the

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Thigh Hard

Thigh Hard

This is the story of a man named Gus. And the hot chicken he started frying 60 years ago in Memphis to much aplomb. And how you’re about to eat that chicken and sing its praises from the mountaintops. Let’s proceed. We give you Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, a legendary chicken joint that’s decided to clone itself in Downtown on the bottom level of

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Talk Scoop

Talk Scoop

Elizabeth. Latifah. Freddie Mercury’s band. Exemplary queens, all of them. But not once have any of them so much as offered you a scoop of ice cream... God save the Queen of Cream, a new brick-and-mortar rising from a once-nomadic ice cream cart. It’s got a bunch of ice cream for you and it’s slated to open Wednesday in the Old Fourth Ward. (Have a look

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Taco-ing Points

Taco-ing Points

Close your eyes. Enjoy the breeze. The cold mezcal drink in your hand. The Ziggy Marley playing all around you. The surprising realization that a third Bartaco now exists in Inman Park, and that’s where you are, just sitting there eating tacos and being great. Look at this slideshow. Then this menu. Then ask us some fake questions, like: Q: Tacos? A:

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