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Look to your left. Look to your right. Chances are one of you eating lunch at Spoon is a Georgia Tech power broker.
Located just steps from the Ivan Allen College at 768 Marietta St., Atlanta, the Thai restaurant fills quickly at lunchtime with Tech faculty and staff as well as local leaders. With tables positioned closely together, it is impossible not to notice a former U.S. senator conducting a meeting over Pad Thai while a football play-by-play announcer is holding court, perhaps over a curry dish, in a seat by the plate glass window and a mechanical engineering professor is talking shop within tackling distance while noshing on fried spring rolls.
Spoon does just fine without broadcasting that it’s an off-campus hot spot day and night. The management had no problem with the Alumni Magazine staff taking photographs of the food but saw no need to come out of executive chef Aim Suteeluxnaporn’s busy kitchen to tout the eatery.
Granted, Spoon doesn’t need free advertising to help sell its food. We just wanted to point out that the people watching is priceless.
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