At the center of town since 1976, the Atlanta Botanical Garden options beautiful plant collections across 30 acres of outdoor gardens, an award-winning Children’s Garden, a hanging Skyline Garden, and extra. Considered a quintessential neighborhood bar of Poncey-Highland, this old-school tavern is the place Travel & Leasuire News journalists, politicians, and “nearly anyone else you’ll find a way to think about” gather for drinks and pub-style eats. Every metropolis wants a good down-home diner, and this Poncey-Highland joint has been serving up “meals that pleases” since 1929.

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