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Atlanta for a day... what to do?

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Dang, thanks for all the info. We are staying right near centennial so the aquarium, coke museum, CNN tower, and Olympic park are all right there and we will probably hit most of them up.

One thing I completely forgot to ask about is BBQ. In Seattle there is one really good what I would call "traditional" BBQ called Pequos (no idea how to spell that) across the street from Starbucks HQ. It's wonderful but thats about it for this area and BBQ. Any place near where we will be that has great BBQ? I always love me some pulled pork and a spicy side spike...

I'll looked up Sublime and will see about catching a train up there. Looks like Flip is quite a ways away so we may have to skip that though we both do love a good burger. Chic-fil-a sounds interesting though I have never even heard of them. You people and your strange thing with chicken 😉
 
If you want a good burger then the vortex is the place to be..


Flip is..... an interesting place... but not what I'd consider a fantastic burger, it's more of a social sorta thing
 
Spike said:
Dang, thanks for all the info. We are staying right near centennial so the aquarium, coke museum, CNN tower, and Olympic park are all right there and we will probably hit most of them up.

One thing I completely forgot to ask about is BBQ. In Seattle there is one really good what I would call "traditional" BBQ called Pequos (no idea how to spell that) across the street from Starbucks HQ. It's wonderful but thats about it for this area and BBQ. Any place near where we will be that has great BBQ? I always love me some pulled pork and a spicy side spike...

I'll looked up Sublime and will see about catching a train up there. Looks like Flip is quite a ways away so we may have to skip that though we both do love a good burger. Chic-fil-a sounds interesting though I have never even heard of them. You people and your strange thing with chicken 😉
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Fried chicken is the greatest thing ever. what is so strange about that?

as for BBQ--get yourself up to eastern NC--whatever you do, do not stop in SC. you will be disappoint. eastern NC is where the good BBQ can be found. Tennessee as well.

I don't honestly know much about Georgia BBQ, as they aren't known as well as NC/SC/TN. Do they have their own style?
 
zinfamous said:
Fried chicken is the greatest thing ever. what is so strange about that?

as for BBQ--get yourself up to eastern NC--whatever you do, do not stop in SC. you will be disappoint. eastern NC is where the good BBQ can be found. Tennessee as well.

I don't honestly know much about Georgia BBQ, as they aren't known as well as NC/SC/TN. Do they have their own style?
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We do have great BBQ up this way indeed.
 
Spike said:
Dang, thanks for all the info. We are staying right near centennial so the aquarium, coke museum, CNN tower, and Olympic park are all right there and we will probably hit most of them up.

One thing I completely forgot to ask about is BBQ. In Seattle there is one really good what I would call "traditional" BBQ called Pequos (no idea how to spell that) across the street from Starbucks HQ. It's wonderful but thats about it for this area and BBQ. Any place near where we will be that has great BBQ? I always love me some pulled pork and a spicy side spike...

I'll looked up Sublime and will see about catching a train up there. Looks like Flip is quite a ways away so we may have to skip that though we both do love a good burger. Chic-fil-a sounds interesting though I have never even heard of them. You people and your strange thing with chicken 😉
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Yeah, the very first Chick-fil-a opened in Hapeville, GA and is still there. It's only about a 15 minute ride once you get on the interstate....definitely worth checking it out. I haven't been there in quite a while as I live on the other side of the city and way out, but if they still make the Lemon pie in house it is freaking amazing....The Meringue is about 4-5" thick.
 
zinfamous said:
Fried chicken is the greatest thing ever. what is so strange about that?

as for BBQ--get yourself up to eastern NC--whatever you do, do not stop in SC. you will be disappoint. eastern NC is where the good BBQ can be found. Tennessee as well.

I don't honestly know much about Georgia BBQ, as they aren't known as well as NC/SC/TN. Do they have their own style?
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Ga has great BBQ, arguably better or equal to 'carolina' BBQ. It really all just depends on the establishment. Sadly for Atlanta I have no recommendations, but I'm sure if you look around on some sites you'll find some good restaurants.
 
Take a tour of all the streets with the name "peachtree" in them. no, dont do that.

if it were me i'd visit the vortex and midtown.

alfa147x's recommendations seem pretty good.
 
Thanks guys for all the advice, we had a great trip to Atlanta. My wife's presentation went very well and I was able to hoof it around the city and see many cool sites. We poked around the CNN tower, toured the aquarium, walked insite the state capital, went to Turner Field (our private dinner took over the Delta 755 club or something like that), explored Piedmont Park (correct spelling?) and ate some tasty food including a Chick-Fil-A #4 with a cookies and cream shake... yummy. The weather about killed me since it's still mid 40's up here and the 70-75 today with 80% humidity was somewhat unbearable. I managed to get quite the sun burn on my pale Seattle skin and my feet are killing me from a 6 mile walk (centential park -> Georgia Tech -> Midtown -> Piedmont -> back to downtown) in flip flops but otherwise it was fun. I also saw the best mullet I have ever seen (and the only one I've ever seen in person) on a young boy at the aquarium.

Anyway, I would like to get back down there at some point as I feel like I left a lot unexplored. I tried to get into some waffle and chicken house today for lunch by Emery but they had a huge wait so we ended up eating at Max Brewers instead which was quite good. We managed to explore downtown pretty well but only saw some of midtown and nothing of the rest of the city or area.

Thanks again for all the advice. My wife was bummed we did not make it to Sublime donuts. Turns out I was within a block of it when I was finished exploring the G Tech campus but was unaware and walked to Midtown at that point. Oh well, next time...
 
Ichinisan said:
PICS?
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Sorry, no pics.

Ichinisan said:
PICS?

(and, FYI, double-spacing your sentences is incorrect)
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WTF, where did that come from? What does double spacing sentences have to do with visiting Atlanta? Besides, while it's correct that double spacing is frowned upon and discouraged in the modern world of writing it is not incorrect nor is it counted against you in any university or business I have been associated with. So whatever.
 
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Glad your trip was pleasant....looks like you were able to see a few of the sites while you were here. As far as missing Sublime, I will eat a strawberries n cream for you 🙂
 
Glad you had a great trip. Next time if you want to experience the real Atlanta, rent a car and get on I-285 at about 4pm. 😀
 
H54 said:
Hehe, I kid...
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On a few days we caught MARTA around 4pm and holy crap, the northbound trains were freaking crowded. We never spent any time in a car or on the freeways so I did not see the fun that is Atlanta rush hour but I did hear about it multiple times when I was down there. Seattle is bad enough going north or south (east is fine) but we have only about half the people in the metro area that Atlanta does.
 
Spike said:
On a few days we caught MARTA around 4pm and holy crap, the northbound trains were freaking crowded. We never spent any time in a car or on the freeways so I did not see the fun that is Atlanta rush hour but I did hear about it multiple times when I was down there. Seattle is bad enough going north or south (east is fine) but we have only about half the people in the metro area that Atlanta does.
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I hear Seattle is pretty bad.

If you ride north from city center on Marta, you can catch glimpses of the downtown connector and a long stretch of 400.
 
Spike said:
On a few days we caught MARTA around 4pm and holy crap, the northbound trains were freaking crowded. We never spent any time in a car or on the freeways so I did not see the fun that is Atlanta rush hour but I did hear about it multiple times when I was down there. Seattle is bad enough going north or south (east is fine) but we have only about half the people in the metro area that Atlanta does.
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If I could channel my frustrations with rush hour traffic to you, I would. There has been weeks when I go to the Midtown office that it takes me 2 hours to and from work every day. Luckily my 15 mile commute only takes 20-45 minutes depending on the weather, if school is in, or accidents.
 
It took me over 3 hours once to go from 20 mins west of atlanta to 20 mins north east of atlanta. I never take 285. I go 20 all the way into Atlanta then 75/85 north. Shortest is 40 mins during rush hour 😀
 
Spike said:
WTF, where did that come from? What does double spacing sentences have to do with visiting Atlanta? Besides, while it's correct that double spacing is frowned upon and discouraged in the modern world of writing it is not incorrect nor is it counted against you in any university or business I have been associated with. So whatever.
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No biggie. I just noticed in the quoted that you were doing it (and you still are). It's only correct if you're using a mono-spaced font (common with old, mechanical typewriters). There's a reason why HTML standard requires web browsers to suppress the extra whitespace.
 
KentState said:
If I could channel my frustrations with rush hour traffic to you, I would. There has been weeks when I go to the Midtown office that it takes me 2 hours to and from work every day. Luckily my 15 mile commute only takes 20-45 minutes depending on the weather, if school is in, or accidents.
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And yet the changes made in preparation for the '96 Olympics supposedly future-proofed ATL's traffic infrastructure. *rolls eyes*
 
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