Restaurant Review: "Maxwells on 54" in PTC

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I had never heard of this restaurant before, until I read about it on the Citizen blogs.

Last night, my bride of 28 years, myself, and another couple took the plunge.

Although, I don't frequent the upscale dinning establishments in Atlanta that often, I have been to many of them over the years and I've enjoyed fine culinary arts cooking at other small bistros and restaurants over the years. So take this review for what its worth.

The Good:
They had Yuengling, although not the Yuengling light, but to be honest, it was the prefect brew for our meal.

They had a unique and varied menu and everything looked extremely nice, but the proof would be in the eating.

Anyway, I have to admit that the food my wife and I enjoyed, had to be the very best we've ever had in any fine dining restaurant. The food was absolutely wonderful. Between the four of us, we had two Camembert (sic) fillets, a cheese encrusted Talipia (sic), and a jalapeno creme sauced sirloin.

They provided a wonderful pate as a complimentary dish, and it was delicious as well. The coffee was fresh brewed per cup, and the ladies raved over it, and the dessert was as delicious as it was attractive. A chocolate mousse and a banana trifle were gobbled down quickly.

There are two reasons I'm writing this. The first is because it was a wonderful meal, and much better than what I've found in Atlanta, and I really am tired of seeing so many fine dinning establishments open and close so quickly. I won't be eating there every week, but I can see us enjoying it with family and friends several times a year.

The Bad: None really. The atmosphere was nice and although it was fairly busy, the noise was at a minimum. They have a ghost piano player that plays wonderful music throughout the evening. The decor is new age, and very open. I would have probably liked more booths with a more intimate feel, but that wasn't a big deal.

We went to Maxwells because someone on this blog recommended, and so I'm sharing our experience as being a stamp of approval on what others have already said. So please give them a try before its too late.

Oh, and they frown upon you licking your plates clean. Something I'm going to have to remember the next time I visit.

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Submitted by rhoebe on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 9:21am.

A lot of restaurants could have their specialties, but this restaurant have it amazing food. They also manage into good manner to their customers and treat them well.
gilbert thai restaurant

Submitted by susanlst on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:27pm.

Come on folks! Maxwell's on 54 is really struggling to stay afloat. They have a lovely facility, terrific food, and the best servers in Fayette County. We need to support this wonderful restaurant right now! Times are tough, but those of us who can, need to enjoy a lovely night out, right here in town and save a gem of a restaurant! Please, consider Maxwell's on 54 the next time you are dining out! You won't be dissapointed!

Submitted by mysteryman on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 9:20pm.

Are dogs allowed in the dining area like some of the other restaruants in P.T.C that have closed recently....PEACE

Submitted by susanlst on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 8:37pm.

Thanks for all of the positive comments about Maxwell's. Hopefully it will help them get some additional business so they stay around for a long time.

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Submitted by JeffC on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:09pm.

I suspect that you missed the AJC's call for a new conservative columnist to replace Jim Wooten:

The AJC is looking for a new conservative columnist

It's not a joke. Apply! What have you got to lose? I'll be more than happy to write a recommendation going into exquisite detail about your conservative right-wingnut bona fides.

Let me know if you want a letter.


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Submitted by Richard Hobbs on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 10:37am.

I wrote a non-political blog to help those of us in the bourgeoisie class and you turn it back into politics.

Now I'm caught back up into the insanity.

Can't we talk about something other than what the American Idol wants us to talk about? Gees, if some of my religious right wing friends are right, then maybe Obama is the second coming of Christ and our last days are nigh.

So, go away, or I shall taunt you some more, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.


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Submitted by Richard Hobbs on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:22pm.

and Socialism began with a certain blogger's father. . . but seriously.

I'm nothing but a part time hack/blogger. I have no original thoughts of my own other than those that Rush/Hannity/Boortz emails me every morning.

Unlike liberals, I'm just a clone, mindlessly being told what is right for America by looking after my own, being an individual, and believing in the rule of law, which not only protects the masses, but, now get this, the individual.

Nonetheless, I've decided to become a homosexual, transvestite, anti-American, atheists, who believes in nothing, but supports everything thats wrong about America. I pray to Washington D.C. three times a day, and I worship the masses that Obama walks on.

Besides, who in their right mind reads the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation anyway.

Since Yuengling is now in Georgia, (thanks be to Washington D.C.) I will no longer invite you to a brew. Besides, bottled beverages causes too much CO2 in our global world wide community.


Submitted by peachy on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 10:05am.

Your ultra-conservative mindset is truly annoying. Have seen your "socialism" signs in your Smokerise yard. Get a life. And teach your daughter to be tolerant.

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Submitted by Richard Hobbs on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 10:31am.

Gees,
Picking on my grammar as a means to mock me is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Regarding my socialism sign. Its a picture of our dear leader and Karl Marx. The comparisons are too much to deny. Which now concerns me that you would know this. Are you stalking me? Why and how is it that you not only would know where I live, but take the time to comment on my home. Since I teach my children to be intolerant, as you already know, I therefore only allow conservatives to come on to my property.
Then again, I'm forced to allow several of the rug rats that all but live at my home, to have their parents come into my driveway to pick up their kids. While here, I indoctrinate them as well.

Oh and Jeff, again we are in agreement. Your father was not the cause of our current socialism crisis. I do lay the blame at FDR's feet. But this just goes to show that liberal "feel good" programs, created with "good intentions" eventually cause more harm than good. When social security eventually dissolves into nothingness, when the only employer in the country is our Government, when not only do the Governmental banks control our finances, the IRS has absolutely superior rights over our financial privacy--but stays out of our bedrooms, god forbid; and our military strength is obliterated by the weak kneed liberal elites, then the suffering that FDR tried to avoid, will come back ten fold. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but certainly in the next 50.

Socialism has never worked every time its been tried.

Oh, and as to the dig on your dad, sorry, its just a force of habit. If I had your thick skin, I'd run for political office. I always thought catching dogs would be fun.

But again, you know I blame your dad for the Bush issues too. If his presidency had been scrutinized by the press, like they do republicans, then in the summer of 1980, he would have not been leading in the polls, and Reagan might have picked someone other than George Bush to help him in the polls. So, indirectly, your father's high poll numbers, caused the three Bush Presidencies.

Now that's a political opinion piece that I didn't get from Rush, maybe I should contact the AJC, but since all of the newspapers are going to be taken over by the government, it would be a short lived career. Facts have no place in a society that relies upon the government for its very sustenance. (see Pravda)

Now leave me alone, I've got work to do. I'm busy looking for my knee pads, since praying to D.C. three times a day, is pretty hard to do on these old joints, and my Governmental "prayers of toleration" were chewed up my our new puppy.


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Submitted by JeffC on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 11:09am.

will be taken over by the government. This is a false charge being promulgated by the right like the reinstitution on the Fairness Doctrine. Why should the government consider taking over the newspapers when they are already controlled by liberals and are virtual appendages of the Democratic Party (not yours Cal, I'm generalizing!)? Money could be better spent elsewhere. Similarly, why bring back the Fairness Doctrine when the Republican Party's talk radio is so effectively determined to radicalize the right thus shrinking the base and alienating large segments of the population? I give Rush/Sean/Savage/Beck their due props. If it hadn't been for them for instance, there might have been a Latino somewhere that voted Republican.


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Submitted by JeffC on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 9:52am.

You don't need original thoughts to be a conservative commentator. That's what those e-mail talking points are for. Embrace Reagan's conservative massive deficits and expansion of government and go for it.

Yes You Can!

BTW: "and Socialism began with a certain blogger's father". Ridiculous! Are you forgetting FDR and the New Deal?


Submitted by jokerman on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 11:07am.

Federal budgets and appropriations are passed by Congress. As I recall, the Democrats controlled Congress throughout the entire 1980's. Yes, Reagan signed them (which he shouldn't have) but you can't place the deficits only on his shoulders. They were much more the fault of Tip O'Neill. I disagreed with a lot of things Reagan did. In fact, I think he gets way too much credit as a conservative icon. Reagan went along with too much of the Democratic foolishness. The amnesty bill of 1986 is one example. Using federal highway money to coerce the states into raising the drinking age was another. Signing Democratic spending bills was perhaps the worst.

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Submitted by JeffC on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 11:26am.

The administration submits budgets and Congress reworks them a tiny bit. Once the Prez signs them they are his.

Republicans controlled the Senate for the first six years of his two terms.  Only during the last two years of the Reagan administration was the Congress completely controlled by Democrats, and the growth of the debt slowed during this period.

The increase in total debt during Reagan’s two terms was larger than all the debt accumulated by all the presidents before him combined.  From 1983 through 1985, with a Republican Senate, the debt was increasing at over 17% per year.

In the past 60 years when Republicans were in control of the presidency and both Houses of Congress, neither debt, nor government spending was ever reduced.  The last time a Republican Congress reduced the national debt was in 1947, under Truman’s leadership.

When Ronald Reagan became President, the United States was the largest creditor nation. When he left the presidency, we were the world's largest debtor nation.

Let's not even start on the first six years of the Bush administration when the R's controlled everything...


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Submitted by S. Lindsey on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:43pm.

Hey Hobbs.. Arguing w/ Jeff is like trying to teach a pig to sing... It frustrates you and pisses off the pig...
Just remember it's all good.. Change is here...


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Submitted by JeffC on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 11:12am.

Try using facts instead of ideology. It makes arguing with me easier.


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Submitted by sniffles5 on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 11:22am.

You're talking to an air-fay ax-tay ucklehead-knay.
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Submitted by mysteryman on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:50pm.

Here we are history being written right in front of our eyes, and we are worrying about the pate and beer at Maxwells, and arguing about the donuts or lack there of at the local dunkin donuts, Generation $5.00 alive and well. Very soon we all stand a good chance of being out on the street and this is the best we can do??? Stick a fork in it cause we are done... Before long we will be huddled around the fire while the pig sings...GOD BLESS....

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Submitted by S. Lindsey on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:59pm.

Mystery.. So true.. If by now you don't have yourself prepared it is probrally too late..
I'm ready..


Submitted by mysteryman on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 11:19pm.

O h yeah i got a basement full of Spam, Sardines, Crackers, Vienna sausage, condensed soups, sternos, white gas, kerosene, plenty of ammo, various rifles, knives, urban assault vehicle, you cant even close the door, and i still feel as if its not enough. And the prophecy says...IN THE FINAL DAYS LEADING UP TO THE SECOND COMING, MAN AND BEAST WILL BED DOWN TOGETHER...Let us pray that time is not upon us, though i fear it is...PEACE..enjoy it while it last.....

Submitted by IMNSIO on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 4:58pm.

on Hwy 54 is Maxwell's? (What is it near?)

Submitted by USArmybrat on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:28pm.

It is right past the turn for Walmart. It's located in the old San Francisco Bread Co. building. I've been there also, and it was fantastic.

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