I had an amazing time at this event. I love going to the taste of, events because you get to try…read morerestaurant for that particular area. I was invited to go on a social media pass. And it just did not disappoint. The food was amazing. I was so stuffed by the time I left I had to just sit in my car and let it digest. I like that they have lots of tall tables for people to stand it and eat their food. There are also some seats that were closer up towards where the band was playing so it didn't feel too crowded and you didn't have anywhere to go. There were lots of different food choices. Sometimes when you go to these festivals there are more alcohol tents then food and that was not the case at this particular event. I love that there were so many food places to choose from and you were not over powered by the amount of alcohol tents. I will definitely go to this event again next year!

This was a great event. I can't wait to revisit in 2025. They had many vendors and the food was…read morevery good.

This festival was very interesting! They had lots of booths of all types of activities, art and…read morefood. They had King of Pops, a popular local popsicle cart with new fall flavors. They had lots of free activities for kids like graffiti name plates, sand art, and bubbles. I bought a nice abstract painting here. Parking and the festival are completely free! Overall, I recommend this art festival.

One of the smaller festivals, but perhaps the most MARTA accessible, I really enjoy getting to walk…read moreover to this one. The vendors aren't the same ones you see at Inman, Va-Hi, and Dogwood, which is a very welcome change for me! There's so much to look at here along with music and food, and I loved that the area was easily transformed to include plenty of seating for people to stop and have a bite. You don't see that at many of the other festivals. If you have kids, there's even an area set up by Binders (you know, quality art supplies) for kids to play in and get creative. There's a wide variety of things for kids to work with and participate in, so don't hesitate to let your little ones dabble in some paint. So while it's not as huge as the other festivals, it's got a real community vibe to it that I absolutely love. A real gem in a sea of festivals this city hosts... oh yeah, this one also picks October as it's home (usually over my birthday). If you've ever been drenched in sweat wandering the other festivals, come out and enjoy the cool, crisp air and smells of autumn while checking out all the art!

Unfortunately not much cherry blossoms at this park. The festival was okay. Food wasn't great and…read morethe vendors seemed pretty basic. We hoped to spend more time there

Visit the official site for parking recommendations. Expect A LOT of traffic around the park during…read morethe festival. The festival isn't as big as those held at Piedmont Park. Dogs are welcomed and they even have dog costume contests and stunt shows. There's live music and the usual festival food along with arts and crafts booths. This is a good excuse to hang out at park with a festival as a good excuse to gather different people (and animals).

Events held here can only accomodate so many people so the crowd wasn't pleasant…read more The event which includes entertainment is free, but food is sold separately (I think). The bf and I were full when we arrived so we didn't care for the food. We were here more for the hangout with his crew. For the few acts we saw, there were traditional dancing, a game contest for the kids on stage, and singing. I'm assuming there were more modern acts like hip hop dancing or something for fun. Well, usually there's something like that to spin things up. The location of this event was in China Town, but it was towards the back of China Town at this separate building. Parking was super packed so be patient.

Small cultural experience with various food vendors serving authentic ethnic food. It's not too…read morecrowded where you cannot find seats. Several presentations and shows take place on stage. Overall, it's a nice experience to try once. I like that different foods are available in one place and there is entertainment. Come support the Taiwanese community!

The Chinese Culture Center of Atlanta is located behind Atlanta's, technically Chamblee's,…read moreChinatown mall. I'm not sure what the official name of the building is, but it's owned by the Taipei Economic and Culture Office (TECO) of Atlanta and the organization's name is what's sprawled atop the building's entrance. Therefore, this center and its activities are geared more towards Taiwanese-Chinese people as opposed to mainland Chinese people. Making this evident is the flag of Taiwan, which is prominently displayed inside the center. However, the flag of China is nowhere to be seen. So perhaps this place should be called the Taiwanese Culture Center instead. My personal experience with the Chinese Culture Center is somewhat limited, but having several friends of Chinese/Taiwanese descent who grew up in Atlanta, I've heard a lot about it. For example, one of my friend's moms has been the traditional Chinese dance instructor at the center for many years. Some other friends of mine grew up taking Mandarin lessons at the school here, at the behest of their parents. I believe Chinese calligraphy lessons are also taught here. The inside of the building looks like a school gymnasium/auditorium. It's a big open space that can be utilized for a variety of purposes. The building has been around for decades and looks a bit dated now. Still completely functional. The building has multiple stories with restrooms located on the second floor. There's also a stage. I have been to a couple different events here. They include the Chinese New Year celebration and the "Tasting the Flavors of Taiwan" festival. The center is probably best known for its Chinese New Year festivities, which comes complete with food tastings, arts and crafts, traditional stage performances (dance, singing), and New Year lion dance and dragon dance. The Chinese New Year celebration takes place each year over two days. Thousands of people flock to the center over New Years weekend. Parking used to be a nightmare, but beginning in 2014, people can park for free in the nearby Interactive College of Technology parking lot. The parking lot is close enough to the event so you can walk over. There is also a free shuttle service which runs between the parking lot and the Culture Center. This was a great improvement. In 2014, the price to attend the Chinese New Year celebration was $5 per adult. I believe children under 3 feet tall got in free. A large portion of the center's parking lot is reserved for a makeshift tent which is used for extra space for vendors and other exhibitors. The vendors are mostly independent artists selling arts and crafts such as paper lanterns, intricate origami, traditional Chinese/Taiwanese paintings, apparel, and accessories (e.g. bags). Another part of the parking lot is roped off for the popular lion and dragon dances. In years past, the lion and dragon dances began at noon. To get a good "seat," it's best to start surrounding the dance area around 11:30am. Another good spot to view the dance, though further away, is from a ramp on the backside of a building which faces the parking lot. You'll know what I'm talking about when you're in the parking lot. The lion dance and dragon dance are fun to watch. In the lion dance, it's two lions who are dancing/playing with each other. In the dragon dance, it is a long dragon which chases the sun. At the end of each dance, cash donations in traditional Chinese red envelopes are handed to the performers. I've recorded a few short clips of these dances and you can view them at the following links: Lion dance (Instagram): http://instagram.com/p/j4Z6riQBgJ/ Lion eating money donations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnipLKWY7Dw Dragon dance (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbu8j5U0VU Warning: The center gets absolutely packed during New Years. I suggest going in the mornings (~10am) to avoid the rush. You will be packed in like sardines and inching by hundreds of people at times. The spread of foods is fantastic (see my photos) and well worth it. Bring cash! I went to the "Tasting the Flavors of Taiwan" event in 2013. Admission was $5 per person and free for students with valid ID. This event was like Chinese New Years "light." Like Chinese New Year, live musical and dance performances took place throughout the duration of the event. Most foods were only $3 each and included authentic Taiwanese cuisine such as ba-wan (literal translation: "meat sphere") meat dumplings. Various hearty rice and noodle dishes were offered and beverages such as bubble tea (from Boba Mocha) were for sale. Two guest chefs from Taiwan attended and performing a cooking demonstration. They also made an impressive fruit and taro carving (see my photos). All in all, it was a fun and well-attended event for the Taiwanese community of Atlanta.

Their annual Chinese New Year celebration was good. Lots of food, lion dance and other performing…read morearts, etc. Parking was extremely difficult. Probably one has to park in the Marta parking lot which is about 2-3 minutes walking distance.

I seem to forget to check out Buford Farmers Market on a regular basis when I'm looking for Asian…read morefoods. I went this past week because I was looking for 2 specific items that I wasn't able to find at 2 other large Asian markets. Someone had suggested this Market because of the extensive ethnic choices. It has Asian (Korean, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Filipino), European, South American, Hispanic and American items. There are sections that have premade Asian meals, fresh seafood, extensive fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, pantry staples, bakery items, almost anything you might want. It's a large market and you could spend hours going up and down the aisles exploring. I was surprised to find they even had a favorite pop that I only thought I could get in Michigan. Now I know that I can go here and get it, without having to have it ordered online. It can get busy on the weekends when everyone is doing their weekly shopping, but I went later in the day and was able to find parking and not bump into people or long lines.

I have lived near Buford Highway Farmers Market for 28 years. I have visited at least two to three…read moretimes a week. BHFM pretty much had its "Glory Years" 10 or 15 years ago. It has slowly gone downhill since then. I have bought their quart container of squeezed pink grapefruit juice many times, it used to be very reasonable. For the past couple of months the price has risen to $13.99 a quart !!! Whole Foods has the same thing for $8.99. Other sources are no where near $13.99. That's price gouging. All the daily house hold products are also much higher than Target, Walmart, Kroger, Publix. I cannot believe people pay the prices. Unless they are on special, berry's and fruit's are more expensive than Publix or Kroger and they look like they are second or third tier quality. The same for the vegetables, some literally still have dirt on them and are definitely poor quality. I bought sushi the other day at the counter in the back, for the price it was great. I decided to buy extra Wasabi, there were three kinds on the counter. None had a price, not on the container, not on the shelf. I asked the person behind the counter what were the prices, they said they didn't know, I would have to carry the wasabi literally diagonally across the store and get a price. The person couldn't call and ask ?!?! How does an employee not notice these items are not priced !?!? I have always loved the cafeteria, their entrees are delicious. Now some of the trays have nothing in them and some have been sitting in the trays and have a skim on the top because they haven't even stirred them up obviously for hours. 40% off after 4;30pm, great deal, but half or more of the food is gone, by 5pm they have pretty much closed up. The Mex part is closed at 4:30pm. So sad, a great resource, just about ruined. They also used to have cooking classes, which were great. They haven't had a class in years. Today I go in and by 4 items, the lines are long, so I took it to the quick checkout near the entrance. A person in front of me had over 10 items, each bag was like 5 pounds of vegetables each. He was not an employee, be paid cash. I asked the cashier so the line is no longer 10 items or less? She shrugged her shoulders !!! There used to be 10 items or less registers, at least two. Both of those have been long gone. It looks like BHFM is adding self checkout, the registers are installed and have sat there 2 years !?!? Still not open. With skyrocketing grocery prices and the competition in the area BHFM management needs to wake up. The outside isn't looking its best either. I hate to write this, but come on BHFM !!! Yes, there are some good deals, especially specials, but they are no where near the quality / price of Whole Foods or Dekalb Farmers Market. The same for H MART, I want competitive pricing and quality products, as a local, the "novelty" effect means nothing to me.

It was a beautiful, perfectly sunny warm October day for the festival, so that scores high just…read morefrom an experience standpoint, but there are a few positives and negatives to this festival worth noting for future attendees. Parking in the daily area at the Brookhaven Marta Station is permissible and free and easy, but expect a 15 min walk to the festival entrance. Seriously, it is a HIKE up Apple Valley just to get there. Tickets are reasonably priced: $5 if you paid in advance, $10 at the door and this entitles you to a wristband to prove that you are a paying attendee and you get a spoon for all of the little sample cups of chili you would like to try. You can enter the festival without paying and if you are not really a chili person, but are attending with others who will be more likely to get their money's worth, I say, don't pay and just walk in and explore. The festival has very LONG hours - from 11 am to 7 pm, so one would expect that you could go most anytime in the afternoon and be able to try a variety of the chili cookoff entries, but nope, almost everything was completely gone by 1:30 or 2 pm, so go early! Beer lines were very long early in the day, perhaps as many as 40 people in line, so that was a slow process. These did clear up later and the price for a 16 oz beer was fair at $5. There were 3 live bands who performed and the caliber of music was good, so an enjoyable backdrop to the festival. Overall, a fun fall event for a short while if you are in the area, or really like chili!

This is a new endeavor in the budding Brookhaven community and while it needs some work, there was…read moreplenty of chili, lots of great music, fun activities for kids, and a really awesome lemonade stand making fresh lemonade on the spot. For just $5 you got unlimited tastings of restaurant and home-prepared chilis, and after three trips through the various lines I definitely feel I got my money's worth. They plan on having more eating areas set up in the shade for next year and trying to expand to offer more things to do before and after the chili tasting hours, but there was a good turnout for a first time event, especially considering it was competing against Music Midtown. I do plan on coming back next year!

My husband is quite the car enthusiast and always tries to drag me to local car shows on the…read moreweekends, but truth be told, I usually end up enjoying my time looking at the cars! I definitely don't make it as long as he does, but I can appreciate a nice car, especially the classic/vintage ones. I'm always drawn straight to those, whereas my husband prefers to check out the new sports/muscle cars. They put these on monthly at local spots OTP, and I believe there's also a Facebook group of some sort. Definitely recommend checking out a show if you have any interest in cars or the car world. Super casual and people bring their dogs/children along too.

Online description is ACCURATE. Being called the largest month car show, I still didn't expect how…read moremany cars would be there. This is located in the parking lot of the perimeter mall, with 3 main car show parking sections, and the rest of the parking lot mostly filled by people who also have nice cars (or at least think they do). It is MASSIVE. I took off one star because we went for the Jeep show, and upon arrival walked around for a long time, finding 2 old jeeps in total, while the advertisement for this specific week showed an old jeep that wasn't even there. There were plenty of cars, but it wasn't exactly what we expected, seeing how they advertised it as a classic Jeep Show and there was barely 2 classics on site. While they did have plenty of new Jeep, I didn't show up to see all the rich guys who just bought jeeps and spent a ton of money on lifting them and buying big tires (most of them didn't even bother for a car wash before entering the show). I came to see classic jeeps that a family may have had for over 50 years, or a Jeep fanatic restoration, which just wasn't there. As for the caffeine part of this, there were some booths that had Dunkin' Donuts coffee travelers provided, but not all, and only one espresso trailer which provided both hot and cold beverages. Hard to call it caffeine and octane when there isn't very much caffeine, one star taken for that as well. This all happens early in the morning before the mall opens, so they proved both porta potties and food trucks, so if you're heading it you don't have to be too worried about that. My final comment is : there are tons of entrances to this mall, but for some reason they blocked off every single exit (I can't imagine more of a safety hazard) forcing people to drive all the way around the mall in one long line to get out at one exit. Some people moved the barriers and just began exiting elsewhere and I can't blame them, I will not understand why they would block people in.