Dining
The restaurant scene in Athens has never been better, and it is beginning to gain regional and national attention as a gastronomical tourism destination. The affordable, innovative cuisine of the downtown area’s many independent restaurants has been the subject of several recent articles in national gourmet magazines. Athens chef Hugh Acheson has been named one of America’s best new chefs by Food and Wine magazine. His relatively new restaurant, Five and Ten, takes a proud place in the dining excellence pioneered in earlier decades by such establishments as that perennial favorite, The Grit, on Prince Avenue.