Last year Pallookaville, TV personality Jim Stacy’s ode to deep-fried delights, began a new Avondale Estates tradition. The award-winning restaurant lowered a giant corndog on New Year’s Eve.

A corndog? It only makes since, because Pallookaville’s big battered dogs remain the stuff of legend. This time around the crew will orchestrate a special corndog drop specifically for younger ones at 8 p.m.

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A free concert courtesy of the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra will crank up at 8:30 p.m. The Pallookaville staff then will raise the corndog back in the air for the official drop at midnight. The joint's kitchen and bar will sling food and drinks until 2 a.m.

On New Year’s Day, Pallookaville will open at 2 p.m. with green peas, collard greens and hair-of-the-dog specials.

8 p.m. Free. Pallookaville Fine Foods, 17 N. Avondale Plaza, Avondale Estates. 404-500-1785, pallookaville.com.