"We once saw a well-known Atlanta man here on a pleasant weekday evening, cavorting with someone who was not his wife. Not that we’re encouraging messy choices, but Marcus Bar & Grille is not the place to bring a sneaky link. Every day at this Southern restaurant feels like an AUC homecoming weekend, so there’s a very high chance you’ll run into someone you know—a former co-worker, that Jack and Jill mom, old sorors or frat brothers, or the bartender you dated for a month when you first moved to the city. People who like to dance in their seats and tourists fresh from the MLK Center Ashanti, Jodeci, and other ’90s and ’00s R&B singers who once wore leather while singing in the desert" - jacinta howard, juli horsford, nina reeder