Restaurants in Newnan

Today's Groupon gets you $35 worth of Mediterranean fare for $15 at Zaya, the Inman Park restaurant known for their signature ashta, a traditional Lebanese dessert made from rose water and orange blossom custard in a philo purse, topped with pistachios and syrup. Zaya serves authentic Lebanese plates with influences from France, Italy, Morocco, and Greece. The dinner menu has baba ghanuj, falafel, hummos, kabobs, Sambousek (meat pies), and rack of lamb (click here to see the brunch menu and here for lunch). Zaya also has a full bar: Stella, Blue Moon, Abita Amber, and Sweetwater 420 are on tap, and there are more than 50 wines available (including dessert ports).

To the chefs at Sage Cafe, every recipe is only as good as the ingredients put into it. With that in mind, they pick organic peppers, tomatoes, avocados, and romaine. Their coffee drinks are brewed with organic, fair-trade-certified Counter Culture coffee. They even mill their own whole-wheat flour. The menu uses simple forms to highlight rich, fresh flavors: sandwiches, quiche, and salads. Gluten-free and vegan options are also available. While enjoying lunch or a snack, diners chat with friends at petite bistro tables indoors or out, or they can take advantage of free WiFi to update their blogs with time-lapse photos of a sandwich being eaten.

Live music regularly reverberates off Samba Loca Brazilian Steakhouse's bright-red walls, which bear festive decorations of ethnic artwork and wine racks crafted from gleaming chrome. Patrons sit under the full bar's flat-screen TVs, around tables, or in booths as the kitchen’s Brazilian recipes power entrees of 10-ounce strip steaks and salmon doused in Brazilian honey-dijon mustard. Customizable meals come in the form of five grill-fired meats, including filet mignon and red snapper, which don one of nine traditional sauces splashed with notes of curry, blue cheese, or passionfruit. To help them to decide, patrons not fluent in Portuguese can rely on the menu's English and Klingon translations or gaze at screens that feature photos of Samba Loca's signature dishes.

Diners take a whiff of grilled meats and slide into dark-wood booths upon entering Famous Joes, waiting to be greeted by the chilly handshake of a cold glass of beer and the calming glow of baseball games emanating from the 21 42-inch flat-screen TVs hung on terra-cotta-colored walls. As a karaoke singer croons on, chefs pull ribs and pork from a 12-hour marinade, toss glistening chicken wings in 16 varieties of sauce, and hand-sculpt ground beef into half-pound patties and busts of Woodrow Wilson. Behind a row of stools, bartenders pour from 10 drafts and 30 bottled beers hailing from domestic and overseas breweries.

Amidst Bella’s 15,000 square feet of dance floors and VIP booths, a triad of marble, granite, and hardwood accents fills out the lounge’s two-story facility. Throughout the night, a sound system blasts house beats as lights dance to the rhythms of The Nutcracker Suite stuck in patrons’ heads. At the elevated VIP area, a private bar and bottle service keep drinks within reach at all times, and a rooftop patio offers an oasis from the party below with a separate sound system, LCD TVs, and fireplaces.

A perimeter of brick walls and flat-screen TVs envelops AC Tavern, where seasonal craft beers wash down a menu of Southern-inspired pub fare and events busy guests with poker, karaoke, and football. In the kitchen, chefs lightly fry catfish morsels and layer them onto plates alone or stuff them into po boys flanked by Cajun tartar dipping sauce. The texas brisket pizza joins two hearty staples as jalapeños and onions top texas brisket, coated in the same root-beer barbecue sauce that also drenches a half or full rack of slow-smoked but fast-talking St. Louis–style ribs. Every day of the week, diners can pair their feasts with diversions, including live music on Fridays and college football on Sundays.