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    The Optimist

    AtlantaAmericanSeafood$$$

    The Optimist opened in 2012 in a former meat-and-seafood warehouse on Howell Mill Road, and it is the restaurant that convinced Atlanta it could be a seafood city. That was not obvious at the time. Atlanta sits two hundred and fifty miles from the coast, and the assumption had always been that good fish was something a diner had to drive to Savannah or Charleston for. Ford Fry's argument was that the coast was closer than people thought and the sourcing was a solvable problem.The building does…

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    914 Howell Mill Rd, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA

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