This coming weekend my wife and I will be in Athens for the first time in more years than I care to count.  We'll get there sometime after breakfast on Saturday and leave sometime after breakfast or lunch on Sunday.  Although I guess we're technically old enough to have kids attending Ohio, we want to go out on Court (and Union) Street on Saturday night, hit the old favorite watering holes, re-live a bit of the glory days of our youth, and wake up with a hangover on Sunday.  (This will be a very rare outing for us because our grade-school-age kids will not be with us!)

Other than the bars, I'm thinking I just absolutely have to hit Ski's Teases, College Book Store, and Follett's.  From a culinary point of view, I'm hoping the Burrito Buggy will be in operation after the bars close, but I'm open to ideas for lunch, dinner, and the all-important morning-after-breakfast.

What else would you recommend?  What should be on my "must-do" and "must-see" lists?  And, other than the University Inn (not sure I want to spend quite that much), at which hotel should we stay?  Any other tips?

Zoe - is best fine dining food that has ever been in Athens (since my '77 intro to the town - and decades of involvement w/the restaurant scene there). 

Casa Cantina is a good place to check out for a few micro-type beers - on-tap and huge selection bottles - expected "lefty" scene - i.e. "the real Athens". Good breakfast too - at oldest worker owned restaurant in the country (25+ years).

Lunch - Miller's Chicken - Period.

Hotels - Hilton Garden Inn out on E State - Use/Get Hilton Points. I stay there every time I have used a hotel in Athens for the last 10 years (? - or at least since it was built).

Worth the visit - the old State Hospital/Asylum on the Ridges ("North Green") - has an art museum now - when I visited there a year ago I was Very Impressed - Lot's of good stuff - and very interesting to stroll around that place - kinda eerie, very cool.