At noon on Saturday, Oct. 10, Hannah Murphy opens the second day of the Wire & Wood Songwriters Festival on the Town Green. That same morning, Alpharetta Restaurant Week begins, with multi-course menus at more than 40 locations across the city through Oct. 17. Starting at 6 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9, Milton Avenue, North and South Broad Street, Market Street, Commerce Street and part of Park Plaza close to cars, and they stay closed until 4 a.m. Sunday.
Both calendars have been public for weeks. Each event's own page tells only half of the story. About half of Restaurant Week's participating locations sit in downtown Alpharetta, and on the week's first day downtown is a festival ground. The downtown half of Restaurant Week effectively runs seven days, Sunday the 11th through Saturday the 17th. The restaurants at Avalon and along Windward Parkway get all eight.
Twenty of the 43 Listings Are Downtown
The Awesome Alpharetta Restaurant Week page lists 43 location entries for fall 2026. Taco Mac appears twice, at two addresses. Sort them by address and 20 fall in downtown and City Center, nine are at or next to Avalon, and 14 are spread along Windward Parkway, North Point, Mansell Road and Highway 9 north. Several of the downtown entries share a block with the festival's stages:
| Restaurant Week participant | Address | Festival weekend status of that street |
|---|---|---|
| Carrie's Conservatory at The Hamilton Alpharetta | 35 Milton Ave. | Milton Ave. closed Fri 6 a.m. to Sun 4 a.m. |
| One Day in Paris | 35 Milton Ave., Ste. A | Same closure |
| Ceviche Taqueria | 42 Milton Ave. | Same closure |
| Sunset | 10 North Broad St. | North Broad closed, same window |
| JINYA Ramen Bar | 401 S. Broad St. | South Broad closed, same window |
| Never Enough Thyme, Smokejack BBQ, Taffer's Tavern, UP on the Roof, Chiringa, Citizen Soul | 8 to 60 South Main St. | Highway 9 closed between Milton Ave. and Old Milton Pkwy. Fri 10 a.m. to Sun 1 a.m., reopening overnight Friday |
| The Butcher and Bottle | 45 Roswell St. | Same address as a festival parking lot |
The rest of the downtown list sits a few blocks out from the closures: Amasa Mexican Kitchen at 15 Academy St., Coalition Steak & Seafood at 50 Canton St., Saj at 58 Canton St., Pure Taqueria at 103 Roswell St., Monkey 68 Sushi and Bar at 160 North Main St., Surcheros at 91 South Main St., Jack's Feed Store at 241 South Main St., and Siena Restaurant & Bar at 124 Devore Rd.
None of the sources say whether these restaurants will serve their Restaurant Week menus during the festival. What changes on Saturday is how you get there. Parking happens in decks and lots, the last stretch is on foot, and outdoor seating everywhere nearby is shared with seven music stages.
Saturday Belongs to Seven Stages
This is the festival's 13th year. It is free, and this year it adds a seventh stage, Truck & Tap, which also hosts the after-party at 10:30 p.m. both nights. The full Wire & Wood schedule runs more than 40 performances across Main on Milton, Town Green, City Hall, Market Street, North Main Street Park, Formal Garden and Truck & Tap.
The Saturday sets that anchor each part of the day:
- Noon: Hannah Murphy on the Town Green opens the day.
- 2:45 p.m.: Brother Mojo, Town Green.
- 3:45 p.m.: Cat Ridgeway on Market Street and Lily Grace at City Hall.
- 5:30 p.m.: Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Main on Milton.
- 7:15 p.m.: Crystal Bowersox, Market Street.
- 8:15 p.m.: Caleb Caudle on the Town Green and The Mathis Hunter Band at Truck & Tap.
- 9:15 p.m.: Sister Hazel closes Main on Milton.
Friday is shorter. Jackson County Line, Aaron Vance and Rocco Gorelik start the night at 6 p.m., and Corey Smith headlines Main on Milton at 9:15.
One part of Saturday is ticketed. The Listening Room at Roaring Social opens its doors at 2 p.m. for a 3 p.m. set with David Lowery, Angie Aparo and David Ryan Harris. Tickets are $30, and net proceeds go to the city's Music Match program. Away from the stages, the Music Makers Market fills North Broad Street with music-themed crafts and goods. The Live Art Lounge on Commerce Street, near the Town Green, has a community mural, caricatures by Carlos Fuenmayor, face painting and henna by BodyArtology, and commemorative posters from Stone Dairy Press.
The published Saturday hours don't match. The Sept. 28 details release says 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The visitor bureau's festival page says noon to 11 p.m. The music itself starts at noon.
Getting Downtown While the Streets Are Closed
The Saturday closures are bigger than the festival map shows. Alpharetta Now's road-closure roundup, updated Oct. 7, adds southbound Haynes Bridge Road between Academy Street and the roundabout for the same Friday-to-Sunday window. That matters because the festival's own driving directions send you off Georgia 400 at Exit 9, Haynes Bridge Road.
The ways in, by mode:
- Decks and lots. The festival's plan-your-visit page lists the City Hall deck at 2 Park Plaza, the Roswell Street lot at 45 Roswell St., and the Milton Avenue deck, which you reach through the Roswell Street lot. The Sept. 28 release adds a free lot at 21 Old Roswell St. and the Alpharetta Community Center at 175 Roswell St.
- Rideshare. Uber and Lyft drop-offs and pickups go to Innovation Academy, 125 Milton Ave.
- MARTA. Take the Red Line to North Springs, then the 141 bus to Haynes Bridge Road and Thompson Street, or the 185 to South Main Street and Janis Lane. MARTA notes its service runs until 12:30 a.m. on weekends, so check the last bus time before you stay for the after-party at Truck & Tap, which starts at 10:30 p.m.
Bring a portable lawn chair if you plan to stay at one stage. Chairs are explicitly allowed, and outdoor seating is limited and first-come, first-served. The published material says nothing about pets or coolers either way.
Saturday Restaurant Week Works Better Outside the Festival Area
The 23 locations outside downtown open on Oct. 10 with no street closures nearby. At Avalon, the list includes Colletta at 900 3rd St., Oak Steakhouse at 950 Third St., South City Kitchen Avalon at 9000 Avalon Blvd., CRÚ Food & Wine Bar at 300 Avalon Blvd., The Cape Restaurant & Beach Bar at 700 Avalon Blvd., Barleygarden Kitchen & Craft Bar at 900 Avalon Blvd., NFA Burger Avalon and Kona Grill.
The Windward corridor has its own cluster: Cabernet Steakhouse at 5575 Windward Pkwy., Connors Steak & Seafood at 5045, Vinny's on Windward at 5355, Secreto Southern Kitchen & Bar and Tara Humata Mexican Grill and Tequila Bar sharing 6195 Windward Pkwy., and 19 North inside the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta at 5750. Farther out are Ray's at Killer Creek on Mansell Road, Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant on North Point Parkway, Fiorenza on Webb Bridge Way, and Ippolito's of Alpharetta on Highway 9.
That gives you a usable plan for Saturday: a Restaurant Week dinner at Avalon or on Windward around 6 p.m., then downtown for Sister Hazel's 9:15 set. The festival's crowds and Restaurant Week's opening-night reservations then land in different parts of the city.
Downtown's Restaurant Week Runs Sunday to Saturday
After 4 a.m. Sunday, the downtown streets reopen, and the downtown restaurants get the remaining seven days of the promotion. This stretch is where the prices spread out. The visitor bureau's page lists dinner menus at $25 to $60 and lunch at $20 to $35 and up, with beverage, tax and gratuity not included. The Sept. 24 press release puts the dinner ceiling at $75. Alpharetta Now's menu compilation shows where the $75 dinners are: The Butcher and Bottle downtown, Cabernet Steakhouse on Windward, and South City Kitchen Avalon. Most other downtown menus price below that ceiling, so a weeknight downtown dinner from the list can cost well under the top price.
The weekday stretch from Oct. 12 to 16 is also when the downtown lunch menus are easiest to use. Lunch and all-day menus are offered at select participants rather than all of them, so check each restaurant's linked PDF on the Restaurant Week page before you go. Amasa Mexican Kitchen posts an all-day menu, and Barleygarden and Cabernet post separate lunch and dinner menus.
The visitor bureau is also running a Taste Your Way Thru Alpharetta drawing alongside the week. The prize is a weekend hotel stay in Alpharetta plus gift cards to local restaurants and retailers.
Saturday the 17th Starts at Rock Mill Park
The final Saturday of Restaurant Week opens away from downtown's dining rooms. From 8:30 a.m. to noon on Oct. 17, the city's annual Rivers Alive cleanup takes volunteers to Rock Mill Park, 3100 Kimball Bridge Road, for litter removal and storm-drain stenciling. The Alpharetta-Milton Chronicle has the volunteer details. A morning at the creek and a Restaurant Week lunch both fit into the same day.
The next big date on the city's fall calendar is Sunday, Nov. 1, when the eighth annual Alpharetta Women's Half Marathon & 5K presented by HOKA comes back, with registration already open.
Weekends like this one, when downtown streets close and Avalon stays open, are part of what we track for clients across North Fulton. If you're weighing how close you want to live to the Town Green, Avalon or Windward, David Lawhon and our team are happy to walk you through how each area works across a full year of event weekends. Schedule a Consultation, and we'll start with the streets you'd use most.