Creative Loafing Atlanta: Nice Billiards atmosphere with Legendary blues, local blues and more blues. Read more.
Tierra Brown: Cheapest drinks in town and great blues and jazz music!
Richard R. Harding: Fancy, my dear Foursquare app'rs, might not be the best way to describe the nonetheless great time patrons of this local watering-hole are guaranteed to experience. Best deep-root blues & cheap beer!
4. Ormsby's
8.4
1170 Howell Mill Rd NW (at 14th St.), Atlanta, GA
Bar · 172 tips and reviews
Hayley Bidez: Top 5 places in Atlanta. Blues playing, pool tables, bocci ball inside, darts and Gruppo is the best tender around!
Walid Neaz: This place is just amazing. If you want just dinner and/or drinks, there's that too, but the real jem is downstairs where its buzzing with fun games like Bocce, darts, pool & others with great blues.
Chris Yates: Gotta love a place with 2 bars, bocce and blues on the jukebox.
5. The Tabernacle
9.1
152 Luckie St NW (btw Spring St NW & Andrew Young International Blvd), Atlanta, GA
Music Venue · Downtown Atlanta · 92 tips and reviews
Ashley: The Tabernacle opened in 1910 as The Broughton Tabernacle. Then became Georgia Baptist Medical Center & nursing school, The Third Baptist Church, House of Blues and now as we know it, The Tabernacle. Read more.
Atlanta: The restored former church hosted Johnny Cash, James Brown, and the Blues Brothers during the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996.
Ginger Pittman: Great venue to hear live music! Balcony seats are awesome.
Bliss: TIP: At Bliss, Relaxing tunes don’t necessarily mean elevator music. Kick back and enjoy our fun, upbeat rhythm and blues!
Bliss: TIP: Our women’s locker rooms are equipped with digital lockers, grass-tiled steam showers, a sauna, samples, and our signature fudgy brownies – so luxurious you won’t want to leave for your leg wax!
Bliss: TIP: Don’t forget to try our signature fudgy brownies during your spa visit!
7. Midtown Art Cinema
8.7
931 Monroe Dr NE Ste C212 (at 8th St), Atlanta, GA
Movie Theater · Midtown · 66 tips and reviews
Creative Loafing Atlanta: Before he was Midtown Art Cinema's general manager, packing its concessions with excellent craft beers from breweries such as Oskar Blues & Founders, Kevin Ward grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Read more.
Intown Expert, Jennifer Kjellgren & Associates: This is a movie theatre for movie lovers. It's no-frills with a carefully-curated selection of indie flicks, documentaries and new releases. And they serve beer and wine.
Brandon Static: Banksy exit thru the gift shop
8. Two Urban Licks
9.0
820 Ralph McGill Blvd NE, Atlanta, GA
American Restaurant · Poncey-Highland · 237 tips and reviews
Atlanta: With live blues music five nights a week, low lights and sparkling fountains, TWO Urban Licks is sure to please your better half.
Andrea Rost: Brisket is amazing! Scallops are good for a lighter meal. Great atmosphere! Wonderful service! Blues band is a plus!
Joseph S.: Salmon chips are a must!!
9. The Fox Theatre
9.4
660 Peachtree St NE (at Ponce de Leon Ave NE), Atlanta, GA
Theater · Midtown · 143 tips and reviews
kerry terry: One of the must sees in Atlanta. The best venue for special dates or watching treasured movies during certain times of the year
HISTORY: The theatre opened on December 25, 1929, just two months after the stock market crash. The Fox hosted the premiere of Walt Disney's Song of the South in 1946. Disney himself introduced the picture.
Atlanta: The Fox Theatre has been an Atlanta landmark since 1929. Its opulent auditorium is designed to mimic an Arabian courtyard, complete with 96 embedded crystal "stars."