re: I come in peace. Looking for a good lunch spot in downtown ATL

Krog St Market and Ponce City Market are places you want to stay away from. They are fake Atlanta. Yoga pants Atlanta. Historic places that were bulldozed to build new places that look like old places where "craft" this and "sourced" that can sell to yoga pant women of the upper class. But it's all a glorified strip mall.

There are actual authentic old school Atlanta places with character, they still exist, they are a dying breed, but steering people to Krog or Ponce City market is like telling someone to go to the Cumberland Mall Food Court in 1994.