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Topic: Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

Topic: Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

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RPO R6V
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Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

Posted: 8/6/2012 9:37:17 PM

This coming weekend my wife and I will be in Athens for the first time in more years than I care to count. We'll get there sometime after breakfast on Saturday and leave sometime after breakfast or lunch on Sunday. Although I guess we're technically old enough to have kids attending Ohio, we want to go out on Court (and Union) Street on Saturday night, hit the old favorite watering holes, re-live a bit of the glory days of our youth, and wake up with a hangover on Sunday. (This will be a very rare outing for us because our grade-school-age kids will not be with us!)

Other than the bars, I'm thinking I just absolutely have to hit Ski's Teases, College Book Store, and Follett's. From a culinary point of view, I'm hoping the Burrito Buggy will be in operation after the bars close, but I'm open to ideas for lunch, dinner, and the all-important morning-after-breakfast.

What else would you recommend? What should be on my "must-do" and "must-see" lists? And, other than the University Inn (not sure I want to spend quite that much), at which hotel should we stay? Any other tips?

Last Edited: 8/6/2012 9:39:32 PM by RPO R6V

shabamon
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RE: Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

Posted: 8/7/2012 11:18:13 AM

Some of the bars have been renovated recently and look very nice...The Junction (now just J-Bar) and the Pigskin. O'hooley's is now Jackie-O's and they bought the space previously occupied by Skippers. Now it looks and feels like a downtown Chicago bar. I like it. Also, if you're okay with fine dining and the prices that come with it, Zoe on East State Street just beyond Court is some of the best food I've ever had, but get a reservation.

Cap the night with some hookah at Pyramids.

RSBobcat
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RE: Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

Posted: 8/7/2012 11:16:13 PM

Zoe - is best fine dining food that has ever been in Athens (since my '77 intro to the town - and decades of involvement w/the restaurant scene there).

Casa Cantina is a good place to check out for a few micro-type beers - on-tap and huge selection bottles - expected "lefty" scene - i.e. "the real Athens". Good breakfast too - at oldest worker owned restaurant in the country (25+ years).

Lunch - Miller's Chicken - Period.

Hotels - Hilton Garden Inn out on E State - Use/Get Hilton Points. I stay there every time I have used a hotel in Athens for the last 10 years (? - or at least since it was built).

Worth the visit - the old State Hospital/Asylum on the Ridges ("North Green") - has an art museum now - when I visited there a year ago I was Very Impressed - Lot's of good stuff - and very interesting to stroll around that place - kinda eerie, very cool.

RS Bobcat

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RE: Please give me your advice on my trip to Athens

Posted: 8/10/2012 12:35:18 AM

Casa Nueva for breakfast, hands down. I like Jackie O's for brews. They have a microbrewery and make really good stuff.

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