Services Archives - Atlanta Magazine

Atlanta TV & Video Repair

770-565-5009

Glenn Handler and his wife have run Atlanta TV & Video Repair, a kind of museum of analog, with old RCAs and VCRs piled into corners, in a dated strip mall at Old Canton and Roswell roads in Marietta, for twenty-one years.

Category: Appliance Repair, Media, Media Related Services, Services

Aviary

659 Auburn Avenue, Studio 125, Atlanta, GA, 30312

404-577-2460

This Old Fourth Ward beauty collective has an earth-friendly mission.

Website: http://aviarybeauty.com/

Neighborhood: Atlanta, Old Fourth Ward

Category: Beauty and Spas, Hair Salons, Massage & Bodyworks, Services

Blo Beauty Bar

2565 Apple Valley Road, Atlanta, GA, 30319

678-927-9203

Blo became the first local salon to specialize in tress-straightening blowouts when it opened in summer 2011.

Website: http://blobeautybar.com/

Neighborhood: Brookhaven, North Metro

Category: Beauty and Spas, Hair Salons, Services

Château Élan

100 Rue Charlemagne, Braselton, GA, 30517

678-425-6064

This Napa-esque winery and resort’s spa, just forty minutes northeast of Atlanta, elevated its game with a $3 million renovation in 2010, adding spa suites, couples’ treatment rooms, and big, comfy couches for relaxing between services.

Website: http://chateauelan.com/euphoria/spa-home/

Category: Beauty and Spas, Massage & Bodyworks, Services

Decatur Bikes

252 West Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA, 30030

404-941-8717

A one-stop cycling and triathlon supply shop in Decatur.

Website: http://decaturbikes.com/

Category: Appliance Repair, Services, Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation

Dtox

3210 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305

404-848-8466

Forget the image of the smoothie counter tucked in the back of a natural foods co-op. Power couple Tim and Shannon Sliger embraced modernist slickness with their boutique Buckhead juice bar.

Website: http://dtoxjuice.com/

Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead

Category: Juice/Smoothie, Personal Care, Restaurants, Services

Exhale

1065 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309

404-720-5000

Located on the seventh floor of the Loews Hotel, this total-wellness spa whips you into overall shape the way health spas (like Arizona’s Canyon Ranch) used to do before so many of them got into the pampering business.

Website: http://exhalespa.com/

Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown

Category: Beauty and Spas, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Massage & Bodyworks, Services, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio

Fabu Face Spa

335 West Ponce de Leon Avenue, Suite E, Decatur, GA, 30030

404-377-6363

There’s nowhere better for a customized facial. Add the $20 herbal eye treatment for a transformative reduction in dark circles.

Website: http://fabufacespa.com/

Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Services, Spa and Body

FLO2S

427 Moreland Avenue, Suite 800, Atlanta, GA, 30307

678-856-8060

In a Little Five Points suite, FLO2S offers Atlanta’s only two commercial sensory deprivation tanks: Each holds body-temperature water, less than a foot deep, and 1,200 pounds of Epsom salts, dissolved to create ten times the buoyancy of the Dead Sea.

Website: http://flo2s.com

Neighborhood: Atlanta, Little Five Points

Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Services, Spa and Body

Four-Handed Massage, Mind & Body Day Spa

5250 Windward Parkway, Alpharetta, GA, 30004

678-366-7825

In the Alpharetta spa’s largest treatment room, a duo of practitioners work in tandem: They begin by unknotting the back with fluid, simultaneous motions, then one kneads the shoulders while the other works on the legs.

Website: http://mindandbodydayspa.com/

Category: Beauty and Spas, Best of Atlanta 2013, Massage & Bodyworks, Services

Gina Michael

1780 Century Boulevard, Suite A, Atlanta, GA, 30345

770-337-4520

Michael’s most unique specialty is zheng gu tui na, a Chinese acupressure treatment. “Tui na” means “push-pull,” and Michael performs a rolling action with her fist that unwinds the muscles, though the overall effect is energizing.

Website: http://atlantathaimassage.com/

Neighborhood: Atlanta, Northeast Metro

Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Massage & Bodyworks, Services