Where to Celebrate a Birthday in Atlanta (From a Restaurant That's Seen 27 Years of Them)
Ask anyone who's planned a birthday dinner in Atlanta and you'll hear the same story: the group chat can't agree, the first restaurant can't take a party your size, and the place you land settles for pushing two tables together and calling it a celebration.
Casa Almenara has spent 27 years in Midtown doing the opposite. We're a Mexican & Mediterranean restaurant and hookah lounge on Piedmont Ave that treats birthdays as the main event — and here's what that actually looks like.
Food everybody at the table can agree on
The hardest part of a birthday dinner is the menu math: one guest wants tacos, another wants something grilled, someone else is just here for appetizers and cocktails. Casa's menu runs both sides of the street — Mexican and Mediterranean street food off a wood grill — so the table can mix tacos, skewers, shareable plates and entrées without anyone compromising. It's fun dining, not fine dining: come hungry, order for the middle of the table, and pass things around.
A room with a pulse
A birthday shouldn't feel like a library with cake. Casa is an entertainment concept: music up, cocktails flowing, and a crowd that's there to have a good time. Start at happy hour — Monday through Saturday, 4 to 7, with $3 tacos, $5 margaritas and half-price nachos — and roll straight into dinner. Planning a birthday brunch instead? Weekend brunch runs Saturday and Sunday, 11 to 4, with $20 bottomless mimosas.
Karaoke, hookah, and a late night that keeps going
The party doesn't have to end at dessert. Wednesdays are karaoke night starting at 8pm, and Friday nights go late with karaoke from 10pm to 2am. The back-room lounge serves hookah all night — 27 flavors and house blends, with half off hookah Monday through Friday, 4 to 7 — so the group that wants to keep celebrating has somewhere to land.
Packages that take the planning off your plate
If you'd rather not coordinate anything beyond the guest list, ask about our celebration packages: they're built for birthdays and group events, and our team will help you set up the food, the drinks and the flow of the night. Twenty guests or a hundred, corporate or family — tell us the occasion and we'll build around it.
Book it before the group chat changes its mind
Casa Almenara is at view 991 Piedmont Ave NE in Midtown Atlanta on Google Maps, you are leaving the website, opens in a new tab. Reserve your birthday table online at casa-almenara.com/reservations or call Call us at (404) 602-5510 — and if it's a big one, reach out early so we can set the room up right.