Georgia Travel Guide - Going Out

Atlanta offers an extensive choice of food, its restaurants covering a wide variety of choices, from Southern and American fare to international cuisine for adventurous palates.

Regional specialities:
• Barbecue.
• Peaches in any dish.
• Crab cakes.
• Grits and cornbread
• Vidalia onions.

Nightlife varies from intimate piano bars and dinner theatres to the underground music clubs of Atlanta. The upscale Buckhead and Virginia-Highlands communities in Atlanta have a thriving nightlife.

Atlanta is a shopping mecca, with boutiques, outlet malls and the hot destinations of Lenox Square Mall and Phipps Plaza, both shopping centres in exclusive Buckhead that can be reached by bus and rail.