Tag: Decatur

Dogwood Festival returns for its 88th year, Melissa Etheridge plays the Amplify Decatur Festival, and more fun things to do this week.

Chef Luis Damian, one of the owners of Oaxaca in Chamblee and El Valle in Midtown, has multiple new restaurants in the works. First to open—likely the second week in April—will be Casa Balam, replacing Ted’s Montana Grill in Decatur. Focused on dishes from the northern side of Mexico near Monterrey, Casa Balam will serve shared plates and sous vide cocktails in a casual environment designed for families.

"Our marketing is all hot pink and sparkles—we just decided to have fun with it," says Michelle Cary. "Our slogan is 'Armed, Licensed and Fabulous.' We posed all the women plumbers in prom dresses—they were not excited at first, but it came out really great. We have hot-pink hard hats. Why not? We have fun."

For this Decatur house, interior designer Laura Jenkins cleverly blended midcentury style with cottage elements.

To distinguish this builder-grade dining room in Decatur, interior designer Vinanti Chauhan used a few creative tricks for her friends and clients, Monika and Kunj Pathak.

When the Decatur Book Festival launched back in 2006, founder Daren Wang remembers thinking that if 10,000 people attended, “we would have hit it out of the park.” More than four times as many showed up. Over the next decade, the festival continued to grow, eventually drawing as many as 80,000 visitors across three days. DBF became not just one of Decatur’s biggest events, but one of the largest independent book festivals in the country, featuring live music, children’s programming, and parades. The agenda in 2021 and 2022 was less ambitious. And when the DBF board announced its decision to cancel the 2023 festival, it wasn’t a complete surprise. So what’s been going on over the last few years—and will the festival return?

Catch plenty of fireworks, cheer on the runners in the annual Peachtree Road Race, enjoy food trucks, games, and more.

To help you plan your April, we rounded up a list of some of metro Atlanta’s not-to-miss spring festivals. Grab your Flonase and add these to your social calendar.

Serious sushi with a cute name, Persian pleasures at Ponce City Market, and some of the best buttermilk biscuits in town.

In which our critic, Christiane Lauterbach, roams the metro in search of everything delicious. This time: Midday pleasures at Meherwan Irani’s Indian-street-food destination.