Downstairs in the Emerald, the lounge hops with a see-and-be-seen crowd who congregate for pre-dinner craft cocktails and small plates (think fish tacos and duck spring rolls), then dancing and mingling in the later evening hours.

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Rather than meet for lunch at an Italian restaurant, your correspondent is now asked to conduct interviews over little rolls of rice and raw fish.

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Atlantans and visitors flock to this rustic, subway-tiled post-industrial space for Southern favourites such as peel-and-eat shrimp, Georgia trout and fried clams, plus classics like iced oysters, lobster rolls, hickory-roasted fish or she-crab soup.

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Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.

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Yet another 25 people take rice and fish (collected during the previous day, of course) and make tantalizing sushi rolls.

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The lobster rolls and clam rolls, made with nostalgia-tinged Sunbeam bread, are piled high with fish.

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