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Every Venue in Atlanta You Should Host Your Company Holiday Party At
Corporate parties get a bad reputation for being stuffy and not a whole lot of fun, but we’re here to change that because we firmly believe that people who work hard together should be able to play hard together too. Atlanta’s...
photo by Square Feet Studio
Corporate parties get a bad reputation for being stuffy and not a whole lot of fun, but we’re here to change that because we firmly believe that people who work hard together should be able to play hard together too. Atlanta’s diverse medley of cool markets, industrial venues, boutique hotels, historic homes, and posh design centers makes it a fabulous destination for a corporate party with swag.
Whether you’re celebrating a year of your best sales yet, getting your gang together for a holiday cocktail party or treating your top dozen coworkers to a fancy steakhouse night, we’ve got a venue for you. From Buckhead’s latest co-worker club to Midtown’s best charcuterie spot, there’s a little something for every type of holiday celebration. You can rent out a whole restaurant or head to a casual brewery for tours and tastes of local beer. So, go ahead and pick your holiday style, don your best festive attire and get ready for a play-hard event with your work-hard squad.
Reporter: Alyssa Brown | Venue: Salt Yard
Midtown
Atlanta, Georgia
Locally known as the heart of the city, Midtown is Atlanta’s destination for all things arts and theater. Running through its center is Peachtree Street, which is lined with historic homes, buildings, restaurants and great little shops of all varieties. If you’re looking for a pre-party hang, take your work team for a wander through the holiday lights at the botanical gardens.
Saltwood is a dining hub at the Loews Hotel that’s easily the best place in town to nosh on charcuterie boards while sipping on some of the best cocktails and wines around. If you’re looking to plan a holiday party where your guests can mingle and talk about all things besides shop, this spot is a goodie.
Empire State South is perfect for the holiday party that runs a middle ground between being totally casual and a little bit glossy. Depending on the size of your holiday gathering, you might opt to rent out the bocce ball court for a casual outdoor cocktail event or take over the whole restaurant for some seriously good dining.
Terraces, boardrooms and ballrooms offer plenty of holiday party options at Atlanta’s Four Seasons. Grab your work crew and hop in the private elevator to the top floor for a small, exclusive dinner party in the penthouse ballroom, or take over the fifth floor terrace for stunning views of the city that can be shared with as many as 250 guests.
Poncey-Highland
Atlanta, Georgia
Some of the city’s best bars, restaurants and indie shops can be found in the beloved Highlands. There’s a ton of green space around, with plenty of public parks, trails and gardens. Visit during the holiday season and you’ll definitely want to make time to shop around for holiday gifts and long walks through the neighborhood.
Part of the Ponce City Market Rooftop, 9 Mile Station is the beer garden with the best views in town. Events here can range from 25 to 400 guests, so go ahead and invite all your work crew and have them bring along their better halves too.
Take over the rooftop at Ponce City Market and you can spread your celebration out across a beer garden, an 18-hole mini golf course, an arcade and a space that has awesome panoramic views of ATL. All you need to add to get this party started is your team decked to the nines in their ugly holiday sweaters.
Whether you’re looking for a communal zone or something more private, Hotel Clermont has you covered with cool spaces and welcoming faces. The vibe here is young and hip, which matches your small business M.O., so go ahead and deck the halls for a holiday party that’s totally one-of-a-kind.
Takeover the outdoor patio at Whiskey Bird, hang some sparkling holiday lights, and deck the tables with sequins and sparkles for a wintery feel. Go with the classic five-course dining menu or enjoy your meal served family-style.
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Buckhead
Atlanta, Georgia
This posh neighborhood is home to some of Atlanta’s priciest real estate and designer shops, but it’s also filled with a mix of normal folk too. It’s the kind of neighborhood where you can host a holiday party in a gorgeous, exclusive, members-only club and follow it up with a round at the local bowling alley.
Impress your employees with a holiday season meal at gorgeous St. Cecilia, where the space is as impressive as the food. Inspired by the Mediterranean coasts of Italy, Spain and France, this ingredient-focused restaurant takes traditional recipes and reinterprets them with a modern Southern spin.
Saltyard sits on the edge of Buckhead and Midtown, offering guests a social atmosphere where food is interactive and the setting is warm and inviting. For holiday parties at this spot, your guests can mingle and sip seasonal cocktails at the bar before trying their hand at the blackjack table. Family-style dinner is to follow, with exclusive use of the dining room.
This marvelously modern approach to sushi will instantly elevate any ho-hum corporate party into an elegant affair. Sleek and sexy, your team will feel like true high-rollers in this stunning space designed by Atlanta artist and designer Todd Murphy. Chef Fuyuhiko Ito’s menu showcases the freshest fish from the world’s finest markets and highest quality ingredients available. Reserve a few tables or the whole restaurant depending on the size of your team.
Stockholm based No18 has established co-working spaces around the world that are, in a word, aspirational. A fresh arrival to the Buckhead scene, the new venue offers members access to private lounges, event spaces and meeting rooms. If you’re looking for a gathering space that feels more like a sanctuary than a workplace, No18 should be added to your holiday hit list.
You know a restaurant is the real deal when weekly tickets are available to dine at the chef's table. A 24-foot open hearth is the centerpiece at King + Duke where duck, chicken, pork and fish are all cooked over. Executive Chef EJ Hodgkinson comes to Atlanta by way of California, perfectly marrying his sustainable, organic advocacy with old-world open-fire cooking.
Looking for someplace fun and playful to celebrate the holidays with your worker bees? Check out The Painted Pin, where you can have exclusive access to eight bowling lanes and a cool, cushy lounge space.
Seven Lamps is all about the casual group gathering. Here, you can stick with the daily lunch or dinner offering of seasonal American fare, handmade pastas and craft cocktails in the courtyard. Or, you can work with the chef on a multi-course tasting party for the holidays that suits your group’s fancies.
To round out an excellent year of working with the best team, treat your crew to a dinner of steaks, flowing wine and tasty cocktails. The American Cut has a couple of private dining rooms you can takeover as a group, or you can head on up to the rooftop space to celebrate.
Holiday party options via the Atlanta History Center include a stately manor, a traditional ballroom with towering windows, a history museum, and plenty of outdoor terraces and spaces. If an evening of southern libations matched with a history lesson or two sounds up your crew’s alley, this could be your party spot.
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Dine in the steakhouse, host a cocktail party in the Georgian ballroom, set up an awards show in the atrium and balcony, or stick with a small gathering in the board room at Atlanta’s Ritz-Carlton. The options here for a holiday event are aplenty, and you can be sure you’ll be treating your team to an experience with impeccable service at the helm.
West Midtown
Atlanta, Georgia
The Westside is home to some of the city’s best warehouses and industrial spaces, making it a bit of a design mecca. Gathering spaces around here run the gamut from casual breweries and coffee shops to great restaurants and designer-centric lofts.
Some may consider a seafood and oyster centric restaurant in landlocked Atlanta optimistic, but we think it’s simply brilliant. The Optimist provides diners with a bright, cheerful space in which to dine on fresh catches from the sea. Holidays here are sure to bring big smiles to your crew’s faces.
Pick your poison from a 50-seater semi-private dining space or a buyout of the whole earthy, rustic restaurant at JCT Kitchen. A three-course holiday celebration meal here might include a salad of little gems, a half roasted chicken with jus and bacony mac n cheese.
Get together with your work team for a casual cocktail hour at the bar, or opt for a sit-down dinner of king crab, caviar and steaks at Marcel. If you’re celebrating the end of a badass year, settle in for a brandy and a freshly rolled cigar at the end of the night.
Authentic Tuscan dining in the heart of Atlanta? Sign us up! Head to Donetto with your colleagues to dine on handmade pastas, wood-grilled meats and veggies, and select a bottle of wine from a list of a hundred options. Sounds like an amazing way to end the year with your squad.
This brewery spot is the perfect place to host a holiday party that’s casual and a whole lot of fun for your hardworking crew. Groups can take over the whole garage space or opt for a smaller setup with a parlor and lounge. Just add festive attire.
Iman Park
Atlanta, Georgia
Victorian homes, trendy restaurants and tree-lined streets make any visitor feel right at home in idyllic Inman Park. A wander through this neighborhood prior to your corporate holiday party might include a stopover at a local brewery or bakery for a treat that suits the mood.
Sip patio punch under the wintery moonlight and snack on burgers and BBQ smorgasbords at Ladybird Grove and Mess Hall. This outdoors-centric hotspot always has a lively buzz, making it an ideal post for a casual holiday celebration.
This chilled out tapas bar offers a menu filled with flavorful, shareable plates and delicious craft cocktails. If your work gang is small, check out the private dining room that seats 14. If your team is growing by the day, you might want to book up the patio or the whole dining room for your holiday jamboree.
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This urban hub is an open-air bar that serves some of the best sandwiches around. Head to Victory Sandwich Bar for a Casual Friday holiday party that feels more like a big, fun happy hour than a stuffy, over-the-top formality.
Grant Park
Atlanta, Georgia
A quaint and quiet residential zone, Grant Park is home to the zoo, a celebrity-filled cemetery and countless Victorian homes and Craftsman bungalows. Here you’ll find plenty of parks and gardens alongside great little neighborhood restaurants and casual shops.
Ooh-la-la-love this sunny industrial event space. Wouldn’t it just come alive with a big, traditional Christmas tree and a whole lot of twinkling lights? Check out The Space at Grant Park if you’re looking for a holiday party spot that you can make entirely your own for the day.
Located in the heart of Glenwood, Gunshow is the kind of restaurant where food is presented on rolling carts and trays, combining Brazilian churrascaria-style dining with Chinese Dim Sum. It’s interactive, it’s wild and it’s a great way to break the ice with your work team while closing out the end of the year.
Neighborhood bistro meets serious flavor haven, The Shed sits in Glenwood Park between Grant Park and East Atlanta. The setting here is pretty casual, an easy place to spend a few hours celebrating the year’s end with colleagues while sipping fabulous wines and noshing on farm-to-table eats.
Downtown and Beyond
Atlanta, Georgia
Like many urban downtown areas, Downtown Atlanta is a big melting pot of cultures, artists, businesses, students, and more. It’s a fun place to explore businesses small and large, and it’s easily accessible to some of Atlanta’s lesser-known haunts.
A whimsical warehouse with two adjoining spaces that can be combined or separated, the King Plow Event Gallery is a perfect fit for all teams, big and small. Contemporary art graces the historical and industrial walls, providing a just juxtaposition for a jubilant jubilee with abundant natural light.
We get serious New York vibes at this polished upscale deli spot in Emory Point. Book up the patio and the full dining hall for an exclusive holiday brunch, lunch or dinner party with your work-hard crew.
Located just east of downtown, Cator Woolford Gardens is part of the Frazer Center in Lake Clair. Gorgeous gardens lead up to the indoor atrium space, where you might set up a catered dinner party or bring in a stage for a corporate awards show.
For a more interactive holiday gathering for your work squad, get together for a tour of SweetWater’s Armour production facility and taste brews straight from the taps as you go. Stick around post-tour for a private lunch and treat your team to a growler to take back home as their holiday treat.
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Deck the halls with a vintage 1920s holiday feel at this historic industrial space in the heart of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park District. Terminus 330 is a blank canvas venue, one you can easily transform into a soiree setting or annual awards show hub.
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