But throughout the day, you'll find all sort of other tasty dishes, including Coca-Cola BBQ-glazed salmon salad, vegan BBQ burritos, and turkey pot roast with green beans and mashed potatoes. Although Bulldogs is known for a mature crowd, it became Thompson’s favorite bar, and he considers it a guidepost for Black gay Atlanta, linking generations throughout decades of dynamic change. These affordable, down-home eateries are best known for breakfast (served all day), with treats like eggs with chicken sausage and grits, and smoked-salmon scrambles standing out in particular. But the original and highly charming Candler Park location has long been a favorite with Atlanta's gay community, going back to when it opened in 1993, and the much newer Midtown location near 10th and Piedmont is still an LGBT mecca. In a post-Soviet society, local gay Georgians live with cautionand rightfully so. In these places, everyone is free to be themselves. Tbilisi’s gay community gathers at low-key bars and cafes that are LGBT-friendly, as well as underground gay nightclubs.
Sure, these days, Flying Biscuit Cafe is well-known among the hetero suburbanites of Atlanta and Charlotte, as this regional chain now has more than a dozen outposts around the metro Atlanta area, including Brookhaven, two in Buckhead, Evans, Johns Creek, Kennesaw, Midtown, two in Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, and Toco Hills. In Georgia, LGBT events are not exactly found in plain sight.
