Dancing Goats Coffee Bar has been a Decatur retail success story for near on, what?  Five years now?  A mix of great coffee, good location and ample parking for both your car and rear-end make it one of the happening-est places in a city happening places.

In that time, the Washington-based coffee company – with a roasting plant here in Atlanta – has not added any other retail locations around metro Atlanta.  But that all changes today…

What Now Atlanta? reports…

Dancing Goats, a coffee bar in Decatur, will open a temporary store in the former auto-service bay area on the corner of Glen Iris and North Avenue at the former City Hall East site, according to Mike Ferguson, business development director for the coffee brand.

The coffee bar will relocate to a permanent 1,000-square-foot space in about two years, Ferguson told What Now Atlanta in a telephone interview Thursday.

Which leads to the obviously premature question of: is Ponce City Market the new Decatur??

My favorite neighborhood coffee joint, Dancing Goats, has made a very generous donation of coffee, an espresso maker, a coffee grinder and t-shirt to the Blissful Glutton for the 4th Annual Menu For Hope. Proceeds from the auctioned items will go towards creating a school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa.

The Blissful Glutton gives the lowdown on how to win these items…

The way it works is that people put up food-related auction items and you donate a certain amount of money. Each $10 buys you a ‘raffle ticket’ to one of the items. So you can get something pretty pricey for only $10. These aren’t shoddy prizes, people. We are talking a private lunch with Harold McGee, Heston Blumenthal cooking you a historic British menu for 2 at the Hinds Head, “a personal tour of elBulli kitchen laboratory at the new Alícia Institute with Ferran Adrià himself.”

Click here to check out the full list of items available to win.

Click here to make a donation.

Excellent Poster from the DAA’s Blog

Tickets for this Saturday’s Decatur Wine Festival are still available. Click here to purchase or pick them up at the Decatur Package Store up on Clairemont (according to their sign out front).

In a timely coinsidence, Creative Loafing recently updated its restaurant Wine Specials list (though the Wine Festival is a curious omission). Many Decatur establishments appear…

Duck’s Cosmic Kitchen — Every Thursday from 5-8 p.m., Duck’s serves half-price wines by the glass, along with appetizer and small-plate specials. 111-D New St., Decatur. 404-371-8823. www.duckscosmickitchen.com.

Java Monkey — Wine tasting every other Thursday on the patio. The next tasting will be Thurs., Nov. 8. Sample featured wines and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. $15. 7-9 p.m. 425 Church St. 404-378-5002. www.javamonkeydecatur.com.

Palate Wine Bar — Wine tasting every other Thursday from 6-8 p.m. Sample featured wines paired with light appetizers. $10. Every Monday, enjoy half-price bottles of wine. 321 W. Hill St., Decatur. 404-373-4702. www.palatewinebar.com.

Wahoo! A Decatur Grill — Wine tasting every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. Taste four featured wines and a complimentary cheese plate for $15. Wednesday nights enjoy half-price bottles from the regular wine list and 25 percent off reserve wines at the bar. 1042 W. College Ave., Decatur. 404-373-3331. www.wahoogrilldecatur.com.

Did you know? Speaking of wine, did you know that “The Grape” was originally supposed to open a location where Dancing Goats coffee now resides at 419 West Ponce? Not sure why plans fell through, but I’m happy with the outcome. I’ve never been a big fan of the pretentious Grape in any of its Metro Atlanta incarnations. Anyway, it’s much easier on the wallet to be a coffee snob.