Tag: Best of Atlanta 2015
Window Coverings: The Shade Store
The Shade Store—which offers far more than just shades—has a wide range of sophisticated custom drapery, blinds, and hardware at reasonable prices.
Floral Display: Daffodil Festival at Gibbs Gardens
Jim Gibbs, who made his fortune with an eponymous landscape company, spent decades creating one of the nation’s largest residential gardens, now open to the public.
Place to Reimagine Your Kitchen: Pirch
This innovative kitchen, bath, and outdoor showroom, which sprawls over 32,000 square feet in Lenox Marketplace, has been open for almost a year.
Atlanta Souvenirs: Crafted Westside
Find one of the city’s largest (and most affordable) collections of locally made goods at this Westside emporium.
Tea Shop: Zen Tea
The front room of this Buford Highway treasure is stocked with some of the world’s finest teas. The friendly, knowledgeable employees will gladly steer you to fine pours like matcha green tea, smoky oolong, or a delicate Chinese white tea.
Dive Bar: Northside Tavern
Sparkly new buildings are going up on all sides of the iconic Northside Tavern, a grungy box serving up PBR and live blues music nightly—now smack-dab in the middle of the burgeoning Westside.
Bridesmaid Dresses: BHLDN
Pronounced “beholden,” this bridal boutique opened inside Anthropologie’s Westside outpost last spring.
Atlanta’s Best Hair Salons
A guide to the best hair salons in Atlanta, including Hair Capital, Ambrosia Salon, and more.
Fried Chicken: Busy Bee
The intoxicating aroma of this soul food institution’s signature dish hits you before you’re even halfway to the front door. With a featherlight crust that flakes onto the table and into your lap, and flesh as juicy as potlikker, this chicken is as hallowed as the restaurant itself, which opened in 1947.
Place to bring the kids (& eat well, too): Novo Cucina
Toys, a self-service wine station, and orders that come out faster than your two-year-old can say “more snacks!” mean Riccardo Ullio’s Italian outpost is about as family-friendly as a restaurant that doesn’t serve corn dogs can get.