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Off-Campus Dining

B-
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Student Favorites
  • 255 Tapas Lounge
  • Harlem Bar
  • Slice
24-Hour Dining
  • City Café
  • IHOP
  • Landmark Diner
  • R. Thomas Deluxe Grill
  • Taco Cabana
  • Waffle House
Best Asian Chow Baby
Best Breakfast
  • Flying Biscuit Café
  • IHOP
  • Panera
  • Waffle House
Best Healthy
  • R. Thomas Deluxe Grill
  • Soul Vegetarian
Best Pizza
  • Fellini's Pizza
  • Savage Pizza
  • Slice
Best Wings
  • American Deli
  • Gladys Knight and Ron Winans' Chicken & Waffles
  • Wing Zone
  • Zaxby's
Best Place to Take Your Parents
  • The Cheesecake Factory
  • Houston's
  • Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
  • Tavern Phipps
Other Places to Check Out
  • California Pizza Kitchen
  • Chanterelles
  • Chocolate Pink Café
  • Church's Chicken
  • Shout
  • Twist
  • Uncle Julio’s

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Dining off campus seems to be the way to go for many Spelman women. With dining halls offering limited choices and hours, students generally choose to make the voyage to their favorite restaurants. There seem to be quite a few places to get a quick bite to eat near the campus, but for sit-down dining, students have to go farther away from campus. Soul food is a general favorite among the student body, and there is no shortage of places to find it in Atlanta. Students also seem to gravitate toward pizza joints. Almost every student mentioned Slice or Fellini’s as the best place to pick up a snack at almost all hours of the day and night. For students who want a little more menu variety after midnight, City Café, Landmark Diner, and R. Thomas are all open 24 hours a day. Atlanta provides a wide variety of restaurants with entrees that are sure to please even the most discriminating taste buds. The biggest issue for students would be finding the transportation to get there. It would probably be helpful if there were more options closer to campus. However, students, led primarily by a craving for better tasting food, use public transportation and cars to get to a place that is more pleasing than what they would find on campus. From the most daring of diners to the most discriminating, Atlanta has room at the table for everyone.

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Off-Campus Dining at Spelman College

Aishurii

'15

Political Science and Government

5.0
A+

Depends on Where You Want to Go

It really depends on where you wnat to go and how long you want to wait. There's a lot. Within a mile, there's a Burger King, and across the street fom it is a Paschal's. Cheesecake Bistro? Tin Drum? Anything. And almost everywhere delivers to our school.

Feb 01, 2012

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Off-Campus Dining at Spelman College

ceas2014

'14

International Studies

4.2
A-

Off Campus Food

Atlanta has a lot of places to eat at if you can get to them MARTA is OK if you learn how to use it and have the patience, but it's best to have a car or know someone that does. Around campus there is Taco Bell, Popeye's, and an American Deli most give student discounts. There are also a lot of places that deliver to Spelman too. No matter what you are feeling you can usually get it for a good price. I like eating off campus or ordering in when I have the extra money.

Jan 16, 2012

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Off-Campus Dining at Spelman College

kmitch18

'13

Biology

3.5
B

What to Eat

There are about 8 fast food restaurants that are in walking distance of the school. These restaurants are affordable but the area is not the safest to walk through. Most people drive to restaurants that are downtown since the school is only about 5 minutes from downtown.

Dec 29, 2011

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Facts

Did You Know?

Atlanta has started an annual Taste of Atlanta Festival in the Summer which provides attendees the chance to sample food from restaurants across the city. There is also the Downtown Restaurant Week which is done annually and lets you hop from place to place each evening enjoying a discount sampling of the best food the restaurants have to offer.

Many of the restaurants near the campus provide student discounts when you present your college I.D.

Grocery StoresWhat's This?

Kroger
590 Cascade Rd.
(404) 756-1140

Publix
825 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., West End
(404) 688-0174

Restaurant ListingsWhat's This?

255 Tapas Lounge
Food: Tapas
255 Peters St.
(404) 522-2612
www.255lounge.com
Price: $8-$15

American Deli
Food: American deli, wings
1250 Caroline St. NE
(404) 522-6567
Price: $5-$10

Beautiful Restaurant
Food: Soul food
2260 Cascade Rd., Cascade
(404) 752-5931
www.beautifulrestaurant-atlanta.com
Price: $5-$10

Benihana
Food: Japanese steakhouse
229 Peachtree St. NE, Downtown
(404) 425-9629
www.benihana.com
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: Cooks put on a show at your table!

Busy Bee Café
Food: Soul food
810 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW, West End
(404) 525-9212
www.thebusybeecafe.com
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: If you've never had chittlins, ox tails, or neck bones, get a taste here.

Café Intermezzo
Food: Coffeehouse, desserts
1845 Peachtree St., Midtown
(404) 355-0411
www.cafeintermezzo.com
Price: $10-$15

The Cheesecake Factory
Food: American
3024 Peachtree Rd., Buckhead
(404) 816-2555
www.thecheesecakefactory.com
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: More than 30 varieties of cheesecake.

Chow Baby
Food: Chinese, stir-fry
1016 Howell Mill Rd.
(404) 815-4900
www.therealchowbaby.com
Price: $8-$12

City Café
Food: Diner
525 10th St., Midtown
(404) 724-5713
Price: $8-$15

Eggroll Corner
Food: Chinese
825 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
(404) 526-9099
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: You can walk here in 15 minutes from Spelman's back gate.

Fellini's Pizza
Food: Pizza, Italian
909 Ponce de Leon Ave.
(404) 873-3088
www.fellinisatlanta.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: They have a large outdoor patio.

Flying Biscuit Café
Food: Breakfast
3280 Peachtree Rd. NE
(404) 477-0013
www.flyingbiscuit.com
Price: $6-$15

Gladys Knigh & Ron Winans' Chicken & Waffles
Food: Breakfast, soul food
529 Peachtree Rd., Midtown
(404) 874-9393
www.gladysandron.net
Price: $10-$15
Cool Features: Owned by soul singers Gladys Knight and the late Ron Winans.

Gordon Biersch Brewery
Food: American
848 Peachtree St. NE, Midtown
(404) 870-0805
www.gordonbiersch.com
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: On-site beer brewing!

Harlem Bar
Food: Soul food, Southern
262 Edgewood Ave. SE
(404) 588-0014
harlembaratlanta.com
Price: $10-$20

Houston's
Food: American
3321 Lenox Rd., Buckhead
(404) 237-7534
www.hillstone.com/#/restaurants/houstons
Price: $15-$30

IHOP
Food: Breakfast
3122 Peachtree Rd. NE
(404) 264-0647
www.ihop.com
Price: $5-$10

La Fonda Latina
Food: Cuban, Latin American
923 Ponce De Leon Ave., Midtown
(404) 607-4211
www.fellinisatlanta.com/lafonda.html
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Sangria and sopa de pollo.

Landmark Diner
Food: Coffee, sandwiches
3652 Roswell Rd.
(404) 816-9090
www.landmarkdiner.com
Price: $5-$10

Maggiano's Little Italy
Food: Italian
3368 Peachtree Rd., Buckhead
(404) 816-9650
www.maggianos.com
Price: $15-$25

Noche
Food: Southwestern tapas
1000 Virginia Ave., Virginia Highlands
(404) 815-9155
www.h2sr.com/noche-highlands
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Voted “best margarita” by Jezebel magazine.

Panera Bread
Food: Baked goods, breakfast sandwiches, salads, sandwiches, soup
2274 Peachtree Rd. NW
(404) 351-7999
www.panerabread.com
Price: $3-$10

Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
Food: Cajun seafood
2830 Windy Hill Rd., Marietta
(770) 984-8899
www.pappadeaux.com
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: Fried alligator bites.

Pappasito's Cantina
Food: Mexican
2788 Windy Hill Rd., Marietta
(770) 541-6100
www.pappasitos.com
Price: $10-$20

Paschal's Restaurant
Food: Soul food
180 Northside Dr., West End
(404) 525-2023
www.paschalsatlanta.com
Price: $10-$20

R. Thomas Deluxe Grill
Food: Healthy American
1812 Peachtree St., Midtown
(404) 872-2942
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: All organic.

Ru San's
Food: Sushi, Japanese
1529 Piedmont Rd., Midtown
(404) 875-7042
rusans.com
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Cheap, tasty sushi. Good for those who are new to sushi.

Savage Pizza
Food: Pizza, Italian
484 Moreland Ave., East Atlanta
(404) 523-0500
www.savagepizza.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: Great calzones.

Slice
Food: Italian
259 Peters St., West End
(404) 588-1820
www.sliceatlanta.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: A DJ spins on certain nights of the week.

Soul Vegetarian
Food: Healthy, soul food
652 N. Highland Ave., Virginia Highlands
(404) 875-4641
soulveg.net
Price: $10-$15
Cool Features: Soy shakes.

Taco Cabana
Food: Mexican
1895 Piedmont Ave., Midtown
(404) 874-6152
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: 99-cent margaritas on Friday

Tavern Phipps
Food: Traditional American
3500 Peachtree Rd., Buckhead
(404) 814-9640
Price: $15-$25
Cool Features: Bartenders will put on a show.

Waffle House
Food: Waffles, breakfast
3016 Piedmont Rd., Buckhead
(404) 231-0023
www.wafflehouse.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: Near the club district.

Wing Zone
Food: Wings
710 Marietta St., Downtown
(404) 525-9464
www.wingzone.com
Price: $5-$10

Zaxby's
Food: Chicken
3770 Princeton Lakes Pkwy.
(404) 344-8884
www.zaxbys.com
Price: $5-$10

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