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  Themed restaurants offer diners a specialized dining experience. Themed restaurants are located in many cities around the world, including in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta's themed restaurant experiences include eating in the shadows of rock and roll giants or traveling back in time to the Old South.
  
  

Hard Rock Cafe

• The Hard Rock Cafe is famous for displaying memorabilia related to famous musicians. These include costumes, instruments and even motorcycles. In Atlanta's Hard Rock Cafe, the memorabilia focuses largely on Southern musicians. Items on display include an Elvis Presley motorcycle and a dress worn onstage by Tina Turner. The restaurant is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and has a bar. Two private rooms and a buffet menu are also available by reservation for special events, and a souvenir shop is on site.
  
  Hard Rock Cafe
  
  215 Peachtree Street NE
  
  Atlanta, GA 30303
  
  (404) 688-7625
  
  hardrock.com
  
  

Pittypat's Porch

• This restaurant takes its name from Scarlett O'Hara's Aunt Pittypat from Margaret Mitchell's novel, "Gone With the Wind." The restaurant pays tribute to the book with a menu of traditional Southern cuisine such as gumbo, wild pheasant and fried chicken and several specialty cocktails named after characters from the book. Menus are printed on paper hand-fans. Leave room for desert and the famous Aunt Pittypat's Pie, a dessert consisting of a chocolate wafer crust and rum and chocolate custard topped with vanilla whipped cream.
  
  Pittypat's Porch
  
  25 Andrew Young International Blvd.
  
  Atlanta, GA 30303
  
  404-525-8228
  
  pittypatsrestaurant.com
  
  

Dante's Down The Hatch

• This nautical-themed restaurant features a wharf area and a ship area. The restaurant even has a moat with live turtles and crocodiles. Despite its nautical theme, it is actually a fondue restaurant with appetizers and cheese trays. The chocolate fondue must be requested with two days' notice. Tuesday through Sunday nights, live jazz bands perform on the ship.
  
  Dante's Down the Hatch
  
  3380 Peachtree Rd. NE
  
  Atlanta, GA 30326
  
  404-266-1600
  
  dantesdownthehatch.com