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Attend Allen Jones' business networking lunches held every two weeks. Email Allen Jones at Visionatl@aol.com for a schedule and to make reservations. Guests are welcome with a reservation. Lunches for eight fill up quickly so make your reservations early.

Two Georgia chefs - Linton Hopkins of Restaurant Eugene in Atlanta, and Hugh Acheson of Five and Ten in Athens, tied Monday night for the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Southeast. Hopkins and Acheson won in the category that includes chefs in GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, and WV. The win is a first for Hopkins. Congratulations, Linton!

Flip Burgers, run by Barry Mills and Atlanta chef Michael Blais, was named as the #1 place to eat lunch nationwide by Maxim Magazine in their 2011 Food + Drink Awards. They were also Atlanta magazine's October 2009 cover photo. They have now opened their 2nd and 3rd restaurants in Buckhead and Birmingham, Alabama.

MetroFresh opened their second location in January 2011 in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. The restaurant has received "Best Of" honors from Creative Loafing, Jezebel, Atlanta Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Southern Voice, and The Piedmont Review. The restaurant received a Zagat rating in its second year of business and has an average of four out of five stars on Yelp.com.

Miller Union earned 4 stars in the review by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on December 30, 2009. They are located at 999 Brady Ave, Atlanta, GA 30318.

They made headlines again September 2010 with accolades at home and beyond! They are proud to be among Bon Appétit’s exclusive 10 Best New Restaurants in America, an annual list from the magazine that notes chef Steven Satterfield as “a master of vegetable cookery” while celebrating their modern Southern cuisine and rustic atmosphere. Speaking of Southern, Food & Wine’s September 2010 issue highlighted Miller Union as one of their suggested picks for “Where to Go Next: Southern Cooking.” Miller Union is also extremely honored to be Atlanta magazine’s “Restaurant of the Year” – check out their Harvest Room on the cover of this month's glossy!

Blue MedSpa opened September 29, 2005. Conde Nast rated it one of the 55 best spas in the world.

Restaurant Eugene was named Restaurant of the Year in 2009 by the AJC. Linton Hopkins, Chef/President of Restaurant Eugene, won the Iron Chef competition for Atlanta (October, 2006). Linton was recently featured in a NY Times article on December 27, 2011.

Greg Best, Regan Smith, and Andy Minchow are partners with Linton and Gina Hopkins in the successful Holeman & Finch Public House across from Restaurant Eugene.

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