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7 spots to get pumpkin dishes around Atlanta

By Carolyn Desalu
Sept 14, 2015

Autumn will soon arrive and to celebrate, the following seven restaurants have added this season's most popular dish: pumpkin. Check out the list below, which features flavorful pumpkin-inspired dishes, drinks and desserts. Orange you glad it's pumpkin season?

Wrecking Bar Brewpub: If you prefer your pumpkin in a glass, this is the place for you. Pumpkin 70 Shilling Scottish Ale, a mild ale with subtle notes of pumpkin and vanilla will be on tap. A perfect Oktoberfest brew.

Krispy Kreme: Technically, not a pumpkin item, but Krispy Kreme has Pumpkin doughnuts this Halloween season. Filled with Chocolate Kreme, this donut is covered in orange icing and decorated with black. Other Halloween offerings: Zombie & Spider Web doughnuts and a drink, Caramel Apple Chiller.

Kang Nam: Head out to one of the most international parts of our metro area, Buford Highway, for Hobak Jook (or Juk), which is pumpkin soup. Also called porridge, it's a thick soup with balls of sweetened rice.

Queen of Cream: Satiate your stomach with something sweet this season. Along about mid-October Queen of Cream will be serving a pumpkin gooey cake ice cream flavor. That's sort of a mashup of spiced ice cream with hunks  of cake made with butter, pumpkin puree and marshmallow fluff. Closer  to Thanksgiving, pick up a pumpkin pie for T-day dessert.

Colletta: The middle of the month is a good time for pumpkin dishes, that's when you should plan a trip to Colletta for smoked pumpkin risotto complemented by the flavors of 25-year-old balsamic vinegar and sage marshmallows.

McDonald's: What's a fall without Pumpkin Spice Lattes? Yes, you could go to a fancy coffee place and pay more, but Mickey D's latte is getting some good press this year. Give it a try, and no, you don't want fries with that.

The Melting Pot: Most pumpkin menu items are for a limited time only, here's a two-day-only pumpkin offer. On Oct. 29-30 starting at 2 p.m., take a costumed kid for the Pot's Fon-Boo Bash. A three course meal for adults is $29.99 and kids 12 and under in costumes get a free meal (one per adult). For dessert? Ghostly White Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Fondue. Atlanta, Roswell and Duluth.

Bonus Halloween treat: A pumpkin spice ice cream recipe from Hal's Kitchen.

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