Gridiron Specials Kick Off Football Viewing Season

Fall is all about cleats, eats and pigskin-aligned libations. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to snag stadium seats. If not, no loss. It’s hard to beat the winning lineup of big screens, big plates and big pitchers that Atlanta restaurants pour on for the 50-yard-line season. Right between the goal posts, every time.

Football fans are fired up for the Game Day Eats menu, served all day Sunday during football season at Atkins Park Restaurant & Bar – Virginia-Highland. Cayenne pepper-basted and fried Atkins hot chicken legs over fries ($9) are a hot item, along with smoked pulled pork mac ‘n cheese ($10) and a loaded quesadilla packing in potatoes, pepper jack and cheddar cheeses, bacon and sour cream ($9). The Dirty Bird sandwich flies high with Atlanta Falcons watchers, sporting chicken tenders, house coleslaw, pickles and spicy remoulade on a hoagie ($12) while the Brat Burger commands house-seasoned and ground pork, caramelized onion, cheddar cheese, sauerkraut and stout mustard ($12). Both are served with a choice of hand-cut fries, fried pickles, sweet potato fries, Tater Tots or a field green salad. Miller Lite beer slakes thirsts at $14 a pitcher. Jump on Atkins Park’s season-long NFL Pick ‘Em Challenge. Each week, pick your winners, earn points and vie to win a weekly prize of a $20 Atkins Park gift card and monthly prizes for those holding the most points. Submit picks every Thursday by kick-off time. Free to play; ask servers or bartenders for more details. College football followers, on Saturdays Atkins Park sets up cornhole boards in the parking lot for game-day fun.

Punt packaged cookies and add class to your tailgate or viewing festivities with collegiate-logo cookies from Henri’s Bakery & Café in Buckhead. Orders require 48-hour notice. Be sure to stop by the bakery’s new location at 56 East Andrews Drive, NW; open Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

View games on the TVs at HOBNOB Neighborhood Tavern in Brookhaven. During regular season games, Brookhaven restaurant guests wearing their Atlanta Falcons, UGA Bulldogs or Atlanta United FC spirit gear score a free shot after their respective team wins a game.

Smokebelly BBQ yells “Game On!” and pours game-day drink specials every Saturday, Sunday and Monday during gridiron season. Tackle $5 Tito’s cocktails, $10 pitchers of Bud Light and $3 Bud Light drafts while absorbing action on 16 television screens. Linebacker hungry? Fill up on 50 cent wings every Monday during football season. Smokebelly BBQ plays home base for Atlanta-based FSU fans this year.

Taco Mac runs in with NFL and college football editions of Wings are for Winners. Every time a home team wins, guests in the restaurant win a coupon redeemable for six free wings, valid on a return visit the following Monday through Friday. When redeeming, guests must purchase a beverage with their order (alcoholic or non-alcoholic). Dine-in only, one-time use only, one coupon per person per visit. Not valid with any other offers, coupons or discounts. Georgia home teams: Atlanta Falcons, UGA, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State (Kennesaw location only) and Georgia State (Metropolis and Lindbergh locations only). North Carolina home teams: Carolina Panthers, UNC, Duke, NC State and Wake Forest. Tennessee home teams: Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Falcons, University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Taco Mac locations also are offering a Beer of the Month and Brats pairing during football season to give wings a little competition. Purchase mini brats as an entrée with a side for $8.99. Throw in the featured beer of the month for $12.99 and receive Brewniversity credit.

The Big Ketch Saltwater Grill offers a Tackles and Touchdowns menu that’s available daily during football season. Score tasty favorites like fried oyster sac’em sliders, gridiron grouper bites and more. Don’t forget to wash them down with $3 PBR drafts. Available at both locations.

Atkins Park Va-Hi Dishes Half-Priced Wings during Falcons Preseason Games Plus BGE and Drink Specials at Porch Party Aug 30

Atkins Park Restaurant & Bar in Virginia-Highland brings on the wings, half-priced at that, during Atlanta Falcons preseason games. Watch the hot competition between the Atlanta Falcons and the Arizona Cardinals on Aug. 26 and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Aug. 31 while munching those addicting Big Green Egg-smoked wings with spicy BBQ sauce or Atkins Park confit wings that are slow-fried in duck fat and tossed in sweet chili-garlic sauce or Atkins Park wing sauce (regularly $11). Both team up with veggies and buttermilk ranch or blue cheese dressing. Kickoff time is 7 p.m. A Summer Porch Party takes playtime outside on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Jump the midweek hump for Sierra Nevada beer features and Big Green Egg dinner specials joined by live music from Reverend Hylton with special guest Jenna Mobley at 8 p.m.

Appetizing Aperture: Smokebelly BBQ's Wings

Smokebelly BBQ’s smoked chicken wings seasoned with house rub, slowly smoked and flash fried put points on your noshing and viewing scoreboard. Comes with celery, carrots and a side of blue cheese or ranch dressing ($10.75). Add $1 if you’re an all flats or drums wing dinger – and a few bucks for a cold brew or two.

Not Just Wings, Springer Mountain Farms’ Atlanta Wing Fest Presented by Taste of Atlanta September 25

Fly into this chef throwdown, the inaugural Springer Mountain Farms Atlanta Wing Fest, presented by Taste of Atlanta, at The Foundry at Puritan Mill on Sunday, September 25. Chefs from Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Charlotte and Savannah are pulling in for one huge afternoon of wings, beer, Southern spirits and local music to benefit Atlanta-based charities Angel Flight Soars and Second Helpings Atlanta. General admission tickets, $25 each, include 1:30 p.m. event entry, wing tastes from 25 local and Southeastern restaurants, samples of Southern sides, eat and greet with the chefs, cash bar and live entertainment from Davin McCoy and Francisco Vidal. Buy tickets online. Don’t be chicken. Get ready to eat some wings by plucking up tickets today. Bring the chickees. Word has it, children 10 and under are free with a paid adult.

Run with Game-Day To-Go and Eat-In Specials, Now through the Super Bowl at Smokebelly BBQ

College bowl games are over, but there’s still plenty of pro football action to go, including the Super Bowl on February 7. That means heavy-duty viewing, noshing and the need for game-day grub to go and big-screen viewing to watch while dining in. Pass through Smokebelly BBQ in Buckhead and grab 25 wings, celery, carrots and sauce for $20 (order in 25-wing increments). Smart couch coaches will add two pounds of pulled pork, slider buns, one quart of a side item and a pint of sauce for $40 -- that’s plenty to feed four fans. Order more if there are some fullbacks in the house to fill up. This special to-go promotion is only available on game days through the Super Bowl. To place an order, call 404-848-9100. Those watching the playoffs and Super Bowl on Smokebelly’s big screens can tackle their 25-wing and five-beer bucket deal for $35 and quaff down $3 draft specials and $5 well drinks.

Header on Over to STATS and Der Biergarten for FIFA Women’s World Cup Soccer Semifinals and Finals Viewing through July 5

Cheer on Team USA as they play Germany in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Semifinals June 30! STATS and Der Biergarten in the Luckie Marietta District offer specials to keep you fueled up and ready to cheer on the home team. Liters of Kӧnig Ludwig Hefeweizen are $9 at Der Biergarten, while STATS has an All American Combo for $15: personal premium jumbo wings appetizer with a choice of sauce (Buffalo, BBQ, Kung Fu) and choice of dressing with celery, plus a Messi Double Stack Burger with American cheese, lettuce, onion, pickle and, of course, Budweiser. Be sure to catch the rest of the Women’s World Cup action at STATS and Der Biergarten through July 5. Details about specials aren’t in a playbook, but you will find them on our blog. 

Give Back and Support The Drake House at Bantam + Biddy Avalon May 18

Fried chicken is one of those feel-good Southern foods, especially when chomping into crispy-tender pieces of regionally raised poultry generates multiple rewards, i.e. your personal comfort food tank and assisting homeless families move toward more stable lives. Give Back Night at Bantam + Biddy Avalon on Monday, May 18 is such an occasion. After 5 p.m. that evening, 10 percent of all proceeds move on to The Drake House. This North Fulton County nonprofit helps homeless mothers and their children work toward self-sufficiency through short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs. Fried chicken is just the start. Bantam + Biddy offers rotisserie chicken, pork loin, pork schnitzel, sautéed Maine salmon, Southern Breakfast All Day, salads, sandwiches and snacks such as pimento cheese, crispy wings and Jb Farm deviled eggs. Browse the complete menu here.

Team Up NFL Viewing with $20 Bucket of Beer and Wings Special on Monday Nights at Smokebelly

Turn that crumpled $20 bill in your wallet into a bucket of five bottles of Bud Light or Budweiser, a heap of 20 wings and NFL football at Smokebelly BBQ in Buckhead. House-rubbed wings tossed in your choice of Buffalo (hot or mild) or cherry cola barbecue sauce are served up with celery, carrots and blue cheese or ranch dressing for a meal that would satisfy even a linebacker’s appetite. 

Get Happy With 50 Cent Wings and Tenders Weekdays at Bantam + Biddy

Photo by Angie Mosier

After being stuck inside for so long because of all this crazy Atlanta weather, we're ready to fly the coop in search of some delectable new deals. First stop? Bantam + Biddy for wings and tenders at 50 cents apiece Mondays through Fridays from 3-6 p.m. All of the chicken at Bantam + Biddy is all-natural and pasture-raised. Peck out a text or tweet friends to join you at either the original Ansley Mall location or the new Crescent Avenue venue. Make a toast to finally getting out of the house with a beer, cocktail, glass of wine or classic sweet tea, then chow down on some of the best wings and tenders in town.

Rise Up! Visit Shaun Doty at 2View During the Falcons-Giants Game

Photo Credit: Angie Mosier

Bird watchers, this is your game! The Atlanta Falcons sharpen their talons on the New York Giants at this Sunday's game in the Georgia Dome at 1 p.m. Upstairs in 2View Restaurant, Chef Shaun Doty fuels your afternoon with his Bantam + Biddy wings recipe. Stay abreast of field action via wall-flanking screens at the restaurant overlooking the east end zone at Gate F, executive concourse.