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Bamboo Luau offers sticky, sweet Cantonese cooking, fruity cocktails and sketchy characters. The drinks are fun tropical concoctions and the clientele are, well, just fruity. Like a food court filled with freaks, Bamboo Luau serves the surreal.

 

The longest-running drag show in Atlanta (the Southeast’s most gay-friendly city), Charlie Brown’s troupe of female impersonators has been entertaining for ages, but a lady never tells her true age. And Brown’s insult tossing and the featured performers’ lip sync routines, featured thrice nightly, are still plenty fresh.

 

Neon reflected in stainless steel surround you as you stare down into a swirling cup of coffee at this 24-hour establishment. On weekends clubbers crowd in to select from the bountiful menu of breakfast and burger fare, with some 'sophisticated’ surprises. There’s also a location in Buckhead.

 

A row of caged parrots greets you as you enter the all-weather patio dining area of 24-hour organic eatery R Thomas. Hand- squeezed juice smoothies, sour cream home fries and all manner of vegetable and grain-based entrees are just some scrumptious features (yes, there are a couple of carnivorous choices, as well). Decor and service are equally quirky, especially in the small hours.

 

A strip club in the basement of a flophouse sporting the same cracked velvet walls and strippers as when it [open]ed in the late 1960s, The Claremont Lounge is a conversation piece spoken of in hushed tones that’s hosted Kid Rock, Dennis Rodman and the Kids in the Hall, among others. Weekdays hipsters and the hapless populate, while weekend nights welcome suburbanites to dance to disco.

 
 
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