After falling victim to the Buckhead renovation project, Steamhouse Lounge has annouced that it will be reopening in Midtown in July. The location, 1050 West Peachtree, will include the original bar, tables and booths inside the two-level, 100 year-old house, wrap-around outdoor deck seating shaded by a 200 year-old oak tree and patio dining complete with a palm tree and outdoor bar. We will keep you updated about when we hear a more exact date on it’s reopening.

Cruising through the Costco last night, I found some bottles of wine that were interestingly stamped with the names and images of some of our favorite Atlanta Braves, Tom Glavine, Chipper Jones and Brian McCann.  Following my curiosity and stupidity, I picked up a bottle of Cabernet Glavingnon.    I paid $9.99 for the bottle and in return I got an aftertaste that bit harder than a Tom Glavine curve ball.   While the proceeds go to charity, I think I would rather of written a check directly to the charity than drink that wine again.  Follow the link to find out more about these wines.

Longball Cellars 

If you are willing to give up your email address, you can get a free lunch and a free beer on Stout Irish Pub. Now, I don’t think I ever went to McDuff’s during the day, I’m pretty sure that was a good thing, so this will be a good opportunity to see what East Andrews did to the place in the light of day. Here’s the link to get the coupon.

My favorite bar in Buckhead, McDuff’s, recently passed on and in it’s wake comes Stout Irish Sports Pub.  Stout Irish Sports Pub, owned by the folks who brought you East Andrews, will be as the press release describes:

Buckhead neighborhood pub will provide a full premium bar including a wide selection of over 50 beers, dark ales, refreshing lagers and rich stouts on draft and available in bottles. Miller High Life beers are always $1. In addition to a welcoming patio, the main bar features 19 TVs with international satellite, a pool table, dart boards, Golden Tee, NTN Buzztime Trivia and juke box while the lower level game room offers three additional pool tables, Pac Man & Galaga, a private bathroom and its own cocktail waitress.  

Holy crap, that bar sounds exactly like McDuff’s.  That is genius idea to replacedan irish pub, with well another irish pub.   Either way, I’m sure this new place will do well because it will cater toward the East Andrew crowds more than McDuff’s did.  Stout Irish Sports Pub I wish you the best but I hope the boys who ran McDuff’s open a new bar somewhere else because they ran a cool, dive bar in an area that desperately needed one.

McDuff’s, I will drink a beer to you this weekend. RIP

Planet Smoothie kicks off their 99 cent Smoothie Days today at stores nationwide. Head over to one of Atlanta’s 10 locations for today’s featured 99 cent smoothie, the Leapin’ Lizard^™ (peaches, strawberries and fat burner blast™), one of Planet Smoothie’s most popular weight loss smoothies with only 209 calories, less than one gram of fat and three grams of dietary fiber. Treat yourself to other 99 cent smoothies throughout the summer as Planet Smoothie hosts the same deal on the first Wednesday of each month of summer (May-September). www.planetsmoothie.com

I know that you are nursing your hangover from yesterday’s Cinco de Mayo celebrations, but I just wanted to try to lure you back to the darkside with $5 mojitos at Pazole on Wednesday night.  Valid every wednesday, this latin inspired eatry in Virginia Highlands provides tacos and other mexican eats that you can enjoy along with a minty, sugar infused mojito.  Now rest up, it looks like you are going to have a busy week.

Pozole

Tonight is East Andrew’s Fifth Anniversary party. Celebration starts at 7pm.  There are free drinks and no cover from 7pm-9pm.  After 9pm, the cover is $5 bucks and the drinks are a lot more expensive than that.  Bands will be playing and party should be going late.

Ahh yes…the St Patty’s day and Oyster/Crawfish festival are turning into annual spring events. These booze filled, no holds barred, all day drinking are nice events after a long, moderately cool winter. So as long as it doesn’t snow like it did on Monday, this will be a good event. I do have to say that the pricing structure for these events are getting a little crazy for these events. It’s $10 bucks in advance or $30 at the door. I understand you want to sell tickets early but it’s retarded to think that I have to pay $30 bucks just so I can go pay full price and wait in line for drinks. I think I would rather sit in the park and get drunk if I forgot to buy mine in advance. Either way, it’s a good event but I would try and get your tickets before the Saturday is you are expecting to go.

Tickets