Decatur

One of the things I've had to get used to when learning my way around Atlanta is that people who actually live in the city itself refer to different sections of the city as totally different areas. For instance, what they call "downtown" is actually just a small part of what us suburbanites call downtown (which would be the whole city, since we consider ourselves to live in Atlanta too). Anyway, one of these areas that is kinda borderline downtown, even for a suburbanite, is Decatur, which has its own downtown sqaure area. Granted, there are plenty of smaller municipalities in the suburbs that have their own downtown (i.e. Marietta, Roswell, and Alpharetta, to name a few), but the difference with Decatur is that it's right next to Atlanta (whereas the suburbs are separated by miles of residential areas).

Anyway, Candace and I went to Decatur the other day for my first time, going to a restaurant/bar that I had been told numerous times I needed to check out: The Brick Store Pub. It's this unassuming and cleanish place that serves okay food but has an INCREDIBLE list of beers...probably around half of them Belgian, complete with brief descriptions of each. That had so many beers there that it's easy to get overwhelmed, but I definitely plan on going back many a time, especially when they get the Decatur Beer Festival going again!