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Industry Tavern ~ Atlanta, Georgia


Latest visit: Apr 2024

First visit: Mar 2023

As noted, I'm back in Atlanta. I meekly suggested Industry Tavern as a casual first get together. My boss took me up on it. Everything worked out splendidly. We started with appetizers - a crab dip with bread, and loaded nachos that included drizzled sour cream and jalapenos. All good, though I lightly sampled them as I knew what was for dinner. I went for the chicken parm again, though it was different than what you see below. Instead of spaghetti it was linguini, and only one slice of cheese this time, though it was melted more thoroughly. Otherwise, it was as great as I remember. The beer list is a bit static, as I would have expected more of a brewery rotation. Still managed to find three new beers, all from breweries I've tried. Only one from Georgia though. All the same, Industry Tavern will remain a regular stop if I'm in this part of Atlanta again.

---original 3/12/23 review

Onto the next business trip, which was in Greenville, South Carolina. I decided to take off the Sunday and Monday before and go record shopping. Flights to Atlanta are convenient, and the drive to Greenville will be a nice quiet diversion (and it was). Because I had a packed schedule of stores to visit, I planned to go right from the airport to the rental car and off to the shops. No time to eat out since I got there ~noon, so Mrs. RJG made me a couple of sandwiches to eat on the flights (like most from COS, it requires one stop, in this case Dallas Love Field).

After a full day of crate digging, it was time for dinner. Before leaving here, I put together a full itinerary based on research. I purposely picked a hotel (Hampton Inn) nearby to Industry Tavern, as these are the kind of places I like to seek out. Many different local beers and a nice looking menu. As with State 48 Brewery in Gilbert, Arizona, I was intrigued that they offered Chicken Parm. So there it is: 4 local beers (all registered in the Bier Reise) and the aforementioned Italian entree for dinner. So I walked across the street, found the restaurant (it's in an outdoor business mall setting), grabbed a bar stool, and began ordering beers and my dinner choice. And look what came out.


Yea, and it was as good as it appears. And al dente pasta, hooray. It's interesting to me that I can get better Italian food at places like this than at Italian restaurants! The restaurant possesses a nice welcoming setting. Pretty good crowd for a Sunday night, but also plenty of places to sit and enjoy. After doing some research it appears most of the beers I tried came from regional breweries based in Georgia. What that tells me is these beers are probably available everywhere in town, so it's not the type of place I'd go often looking for more local microbrew offerings. But since this is the first time I've been in Atlanta since 2008 (except one drive through in 2016), almost every beer from here is new to me!

3/12/23 (new entry); 4/16/24

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