How to Help Atlanta Restaurants Right Now

Amber RandhawaGiving Back, What's Happening Around Atlanta

Ordering delivery and carryout from your favorite Atlanta restaurant is not just your only option for enjoying their delicious meals right now, it’s also the best way you can help them stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic and required social distancing measures. We cannot urge our readers enough to continue supporting local businesses, but there are additional things you can …

What’s That Sound in Midtown?

Amber RandhawaWhat's Happening Around Atlanta

You can hear it every night at 8pm. It started with just a few neighbors, and now it has taken over an entire section of the city. Residents of apartments and condos throughout Midtown come out onto their balconies to cheer and applaud for the healthcare workers at nearby Emory University Hospital Midtown, who are working tirelessly amidst the COVID-19 …

Atlanta’s West Side Restaurants Need YOU!

Amber RandhawaWhat's Happening Around Atlanta

This week, Eater Magazine posted a list of West Side restaurants who are are open for delivery and take-out orders, even though dine-in service is currently suspended by the City of Atlanta. While this list is in no way comprehensive, it’s a great starting point for finding out who may be open in your area if you are a resident …

Why the Coronavirus is Such a Headache for Breweries

Amber RandhawaWhat's Happening Around Atlanta

It’s a pretty common joke around Atlanta right now – people faced with weeks and possibly months of staying home are hoarding the necessities, which appears to be toilet paper, hand sanitizer….and beer. So you might think that Atlanta’s local craft breweries are weathering this economic storm well, since they can still package their product for wholesale deliveries to local …

Staplehouse Partners with The Giving Kitchen

Amber RandhawaWhat's Happening Around Atlanta

From providing free meals to their newly unemployed restaurant business comrades to donations to local charities, Atlanta restaurants are helping others during this time of uncertainty in their industry. Dining rooms across the city sit empty while restaurants convert to takeout and delivery only, in an effort to stay open and avoid mass layoffs of their workers. But not all …

Atlantans Helping Atlantans: Old Fourth Distillery

Amber RandhawaWhat's Happening Around Atlanta

The good folks at Old Fourth Distillery usually spend their days churning out vodka, gin and whiskey at their facility in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. O4D opened in 2014 as the first distillery in Atlanta since 1906. In addition to spirit sales, they also see a sizable income from distillery tours and tastings, along with event rentals, hosted in their …