TOP FLR
Categories:
Restaurants, New American Restaurants, Eclectic & International Restaurants
Details:
$$, Hidden Find
Message from TOP FLR
Top FLR is a small and intimate restaurant nestled in Midtown. It is a an eclectic restaurant and bar that everyone has been waiting for in Atlanta. It has a casual and romantic setting, with a bar and lounge downstairs and dining room upstairs. The Mediteranean inspired menu made with the freshest ingredients includes gourmet pizzas, fresh pasta, seafood, steak and more. Some of the popular dishes include the duck confit and portobello mushroom pizza, lamb screwers, mussels and ravioli to name a few. The delicous bistro dishes, excellent wine selection and affordable prices will bring you back again and again. The selection of dessert cocktails mixed with the three unique chocolate truffles are truly amazing! In 2007, Top FLR has been rated as the top 75 restaurants in Atlanta by the Atlanta Cuisine and noted as the top 5 new restaurants in Atlanta by Knife and Fork Review!
Editorial by Citysearch
In ShortDefying Atlanta's idea that bigger is better, this tiny two-story space - a small dining and bar area downstairs, the main dining room in upstairs - feels a bit like a college apartment that just happens to serve food. But Chef Mike Schorn's short menu, featuring lamb skewers with cauliflower couscous, bruschetta with white bean hummus, and mixed green salad with figs and vanilla-scented goat cheese, is anything but sophomoric. Like gourmet food for hipsters, the tofu and bok choy in a banana curry makes healthy taste like million bucks and with the kitchen open till 2am, Top Flr is a massive upgrade for late night chow.
Key Points
- Mediterannean Inspired Menu
- Specialty Dessert
- Excellent Wine Selection
The Inside Scoop
- The Extras - Pastry chef Taria Camerino's intense desserts change daily and are some of the most impressive in town.
- Know Before You Go - Top Flr serves food until 2am, but it becomes more of a late-night lounge complete with DJs.
Latest reviews from Citysearch.
What a gem
by Jen555
Stumbled across this neighborhood gem a week ago. Great food, great service, friendly atmosphere. Will be back soon.
Pros: affordable
Cons: There aren't more around the city
Posted 05/04/09
speaking of pretentious...
by tonyclifton22
This place, as another critic spoke of, is so pretentious! The staff themselves think they are in some sort of swank NYC elite club. The food is mediocre, nothing to proverbially write home about. I would never go back to the place ever, especially with it's ? la carte menu! You would be better off going to Whole Foods, about a mile away, than to spend your hard earned dollar here.
Pros: still thinking..hmmm....none.
Cons: Walking in the door
Posted 04/16/09
bigots!
by thomasbanning
I am African American my wife is caucasion, we stepped into the door of the establishment, with an actual 9pm reservation. Then another couple, about 3 minutes later walked in, also a man that was solo. The host finally came, passed by us and went for the other couple, asking them how many were in their party! Then asked the other gentleman how many was in his party! Finally asked us [last]. We will NEVER go back to the place again! It is an overpriced, bigoted, highfalutin, ostentatious, pompous piece of c***!
Pros: so-so food
Cons: they really are bigots!
Posted 04/16/09
Pretentious waste of money.
by king2048
Does the phrase "pretentiously unpretentious" mean anything to you?
Don't let the prices on the menu or the barebones, midrange appearance fool you: This place is a-la-carte, and it adds up incredibly quickly. When people here say "inexpensive," they must not be comparing it to other restaurants with plastic chairs.
The food is reasonably good but unexceptional.
Basically, if you want to spend money pretending to be a hipster bohemian, sitting in a faux-retro chair in a drafty attic, go here. If you value your cash -- or authenticity -- avoid it.
Pros: What food you get, is prepared reasonably well.
Cons: Expensive, a-la-carte. Not worth it.
Posted 04/13/09
Classically Trendy, Palette Pleasing and Inexpensive!
by TennysonsUlysses
I went to dinner with 3 other friends on a saturday night and we all loved Top Flr! We had a reservation for 10pm but decided to walk in at 9.15. We were seating within about 20 minutes. It was a touch drafty where we were seated but that was a minor let down. We liked most of what we ordered...lamb skewers, oysters, mac and cheese, potatoes, duck pasta and crab lobster, hanger steak. I tried a bit of everyones food and was generally impressed. I loved the crab lobster. I have a delightfully brooding class of Rioja! I def recommend this place to hang out with friends for a for a hot date! Oh, and our waiter was ever so friendly and efficienct!
Pros: $$, Ambiance, Crab Lobster, Lamb Skewers
Cons: Small waiting area
Posted 04/12/09