Perfect Note could absolutely be #1 depending on what you're looking for. TEN wins our overall ranking because its intimate lounge-and-jam-session format feels uniquely connected to a night out in Atlanta. Perfect Note wins when you want the complete grown live-music experience. Dinner. Drinks. A real performance. A seat. And a room full of people who came because they wanted to hear good music.

No gimmick necessary. Sometimes we want the jam session. Sometimes we want to sit down, order dinner and hear somebody sang. Perfect Note is for the second night. This is a proper dinner-and-live-music experience. The Music Room hosts ticketed performances, while the restaurant and bar allow you to build an entire evening around one destination. The musical lane is exactly where you'd expect: jazz, old-school R&B, neo-soul, blues and gospel.

And grown means grown. Perfect Note isn't trying to become a nightclub after dinner. The venue itself explicitly describes the environment as grown and dressy casual. BlkTravel would choose Perfect Note for: R&B, jazz, neo-soul, date night, birthdays, dinner and a show, grown folks night out, and nights when the performance is the main event.