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ATLANTA WHEN YOU'RE HERE TO WORK: Where I Take Buyers Around AmericasMart
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items I'm an apparel rep. I work the whole Southeast, but I'm in Atlanta more than anywhere else because AmericasMart runs my calendar. This isn't a tourist list - no aquarium, no Coke museum. It's where to actually eat when a buyer says you pick, which pl...
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Nine places I actually use, and the only thing they have in common is that they work for a working dinner. A couple are a short hop from the Mart, a couple are worth the fifteen minutes east. When a buyer's in town for one night, this is the shortlis...
About as close to AmericasMart as you can eat without being in the food court. Ground floor of 191 Peachtree, so you walk out of a showroom and you're sitting down five minutes later. The room is nice enough that a buyer reads it as you making an eff...
Alma Cocina
On Peachtree Center Avenue since 1989, which downtown means it has outlasted a lot of flashier rooms. Straight across from the Mart, so it's the easy call when market runs long and nobody wants to get in a car. Proper sit-down Chinese and quiet enoug...
Hsu's Gourmet
Worth the short ride off Peachtree, and the one I pick when the dinner actually matters. Asian and Southern crossed together - the shrimp and grits is what everybody orders and it earns the reputation. Reserve ahead. It stays busy on a weeknight and ...
Poor Calvin's
The safe answer when you don't know the buyer well yet. Steak and seafood on Peachtree, walking distance from the Mart, and nobody has ever been disappointed to be taken to Ray's. The service understands what a business dinner is, and the room is lou...
Ray's In the City
For when the dinner is the entertainment rather than the meeting. Big loud room in the Old Fourth Ward with wood-fired everything and a patio that looks out over the Beltline. Not where you go to talk terms - it's where you go after the order is alre...
Two Urban Licks
White-tablecloth Thai in Midtown, about ten minutes up Spring Street from the Mart. This is my pick when a buyer dinner needs to feel like an occasion and I don't have three hours for a tasting menu. Quiet enough that you can actually talk about the ...
Nan Thai Fine Dining
Inman Park Italian that's been there since 1999, which in Atlanta restaurant years is forever. Handmade pasta, dark and quiet at night - the kind of room where a buyer dinner turns into an actual conversation instead of a transaction. About fifteen m...
Sotto Sotto Restaurant
Persian, in Inman Park, and the menu is built for sharing - which is exactly why it works for a table of buyers. Order the tahdig and a few kebabs and let everybody pick at it; nobody's stuck staring at their own plate. It's in the Michelin Guide, so...
Delbar
Korean barbecue where you grill at the table, which is the fastest way I know to loosen up a dinner that started out stiff. Everybody's cooking, nobody's checking their phone, and you're forty minutes in before anyone mentions the order. There are tw...
Park27 Korean BBQ and Bar - Midtown