Dining & Drinking
August, 1980
The first thing you notice as you approach and enter The Abbey at 163 Ponce de Leon Avenue, in Atlanta, Georgia, is that the bell tower, stained-glass windows, three-story vaulted ceiling and choir loft were not designed by some restaurant consultant eager to create a funky ecclesiastical atmosphere but by an architect answering to a higher calling. Built in 1915 as a Methodist Episcopal church, the structure's transformation into a restaurant has been handled with a maximum of taste and restrai...
