After an especially hectic holiday run around this year, the wife and I are thinking a quiet New Year’s Eve at home is just what the doctor ordered.

But that conversation also made me realize that other than Tastings’ New Year’s Eve party,  I’m not really clued in on the full extent of New Year’s Eve activities going on in Decatur this year.

So gentle readers, once again I seek your sage advice and drunken memories:

Where in Decatur is the best place to bring in the New Year?

I walked down Ponce with the pup yesterday and noticed that the house that sits next to Watershed, which recently underwent an extensive interior renovation – along with the addition of a wheelchair ramp – finally has a new tenant.

If I remember correctly, the sign reads “Decatur Ponce Preventive Care”.  Haven’t  found any info about it online yet.

Lots of docs moving into the city lately.

Susan recently noticed this new “policy” at the bottom of the DeKalb Farmer’s Market’s recepits.

So let’s just say – hypothetically of course – that I get home and discover that the shrimp I just purchased from your lovely reusable bag-hating establishment is absolutely rancid – hypothetically.   Can I bring it back and get some new, non-rancid shrimp?

It sure don’t look like it now that ALL SALES are FINAL.

So I must smell and taste all of my food before checking out from now on?

If this is indeed how I should be reading “ALL SALES FINAL”, screw ‘em.

ALL my SALES are going elsewhere.

Andisheh points out that Besha Rodell over at his old employer has ranked Cakes and Ale as her #5 pick of top Atlanta-area restaurants of 2008.

The much baleyhooed Holeman and Fitch gastropub in Buckhead was #1.