Paper Plane an Esquire “Best Bar”, Two Decatur Cocktail Lounges Among Eater’s Top List

Paper Plane adds a couple more “Top” awards to its list.  The first is from Esquire, which named the Decatur spot among their “Best Bars in America”.

Also of late, Kimball House and Paper Plane have found themselves on the same “Top” lists.  FM Fats points out another.  Bill Addison has placed both Kimball House and Paper Plane on Eater’s latest 38 Best Cocktail Lounges Across America list.

Here are their respective blurbs…

Kimball House

“Some of the richest bartender talent in the Atlanta metro area” is stationed here, according to Eater critic Bill Addision. In addition to an extensive list of traditionally served absinthes and refined cocktails, Addison says, “sitting at the bar, drinking cocktails and slurping oysters, is the power move” at this French-inflected restaurant and bar housed in a former railway depot built in the late 1800s.

Paper Plane

Eater critic Bill Addison thinks this Southern bar is “the hottest place to drink in the Atlanta area,” though their tight menu also gets noticed for excellence. Addison finds that head bartender Paul Calvert is a “virtuoso at blending potent flavors compatibly.” Cocktails like the In Bloom with Mezcal, Italian vermouth, Campari, St. Germain and rose water (there’s that expert blending at work) are interesting to say the least, and the atmosphere is intimate. Let it be known they welcome “Members and Non-Members Only” into the place.

Photo courtesy of Paper Plane’s Facebook page

6 thoughts on “Paper Plane an Esquire “Best Bar”, Two Decatur Cocktail Lounges Among Eater’s Top List”


  2. Sidling up to the bar at the Kimball House: It’s not just an annoyance to J_T. It’s also a “power move.”

    I’ve been power movin’ and didn’t even know it.

    1. I will admit to a small feeling of moral superiority whenever I think about someone ordering a $15 hand-crafted, hipster hooch concoction.

  4. I put the Pinewood Tippling Room on par with both of those places. Love them all.

    2. +1. And I prefer the food at Pinewood to either of the others (though, in the case of Kimball House, admittedly I’m not much of an oyster fan. I still think of it at as redneck sushi).

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