If you were not among the throngs treating local grocery stores like a cloud of locusts, and you somehow missed planning for the Snow/Ice/Sleetpocalypse that is now upon us, what can you do to fill your belly and get your drink on? Here are the places we know of that are open Wednesday.
- Little Italy: Yankees ain’t skeered of no ice.
- Normal Bar: opening at noon
- Groucho’s Deli: on Baxter
- Mama Bird’s Granola & Kitchen: in the 909 Broad building, with grocery provisions
- Independent Baking Co.: open since 8:30 a.m.
- J’s Bottle Shop: yesss (until 7:30 p.m.)
- Ike & Jane: until 2 p.m. (ooh, and Ike @ Nite is still going on tonight)
- Pulaski Heights BBQ: at noon
- The Globe: because bicycles
- Taqueria La Parrilla: Homewood, maybe, 5-ish; update: nah
- The Grill: because always
- Walker’s: coffee and booze
- Athens Bagel Co.: bagels
- The World Famous: starting at 2 p.m.
- Last Resort: for dinner tonight, supposably
- The Cellar: liquor store in Homewood Hills
- Flicker Bar: at 4 p.m.
- Trappeze: opening for beer at 4 p.m. (no kitchen)
- Mellow Mushroom: so you have plenty of pizza options
- The Old Pal: open at 3 p.m.
- The Royal Peasant and Five Points Bottle: according to folks in the area
- the hospital cafeterias
- Waffle House: downtown confirmedly; probably others ’cause it’s how they roll
- Sips on Prince: coffee
- Barberitos: downtown
- Cutter’s Pub: downtown
- Hendershot’s: just drank, no food
- Dirty Birds
- the Hotel Indigo restaurant
- Hi-Lo‘s kitchen is open until 10 p.m.
- Roadhouse opened at 2 p.m. (let no one say Athenians don’t have enough places to get drunk during an Icepocalypse)
- Go Bar will be open tonight
Some of these have since closed earlier than usual (PHBBQ, Groucho’s), so call ahead before you go anywhere, if you’re brave/hungry/parched enough to leave the house.
Update: It’s Thursday morning and we’ll try to update the list a bit. Here’s who we know of doing business today.
- Ike & Jane + Ike @ Nite
- Daily Groceries (provisions!)
- Independent Baking Co.
- Little Italy: not this morning, but regular hours
- Amici: at noon
- Clocked!: at 11 a.m.
- Athens Bagel Co.: at 10 a.m.
- Mama Bird’s Granola & Kitchen
- Dirty Birds: at 5 p.m.
- Trappeze: kitchen too; as of noon
- Five & Ten, The National: for dinner
- Blind Pig: noon
- Hendershot’s
- The World Famous: starting at 2 p.m.
- Shokitini: dinner
- Schlotzsky’s
- Beef O’Brady’s (yay for the Eastside!)
- Your Pie: 5 Points, Beechwood, downtown
- Pulaski Heights BBQ
- Chops & Hops
- Buffalo’s
- Rooter’s
- Keba: all three as of 12:30
- The Globe
- Square One: for dinner
- The Volstead
- Fuzzy’s: at 1
- The Grit: at 3
- Catch 22
- Big City Bread
- Groucho’s
- The Old Pal: open at 3 p.m. with pretzels from The Comerian (oooh)
- Ted’s Most Best: at 3
- White Tiger: for dinner, w/ V-Day chocolates
- Taqueria del Sol: still closed for lunch but open for dinner at 5
It’s looking like 50-50 out there, with some other places on the fence about dinner tonight (DePalma’s, Heirloom).
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