Juneteenth Celebration at Marcus Bar & Grille

About this event

Chef Marcus Samuelsson's Old Fourth Ward restaurant hosts a summer Juneteenth cookout rooted in the African American culinary traditions that shaped the holiday's table from its earliest Texas observances. The kitchen plates fried catfish, smoked jerk chicken, prime beef hot links, and crab-topped fried green tomatoes alongside the signature Edgewood Freeze cocktail, while local DJs spin throughout the evening. Held steps from the Atlanta BeltLine in the historic Old Fourth Ward — the neighborhood where Martin Luther King Jr. was born — the event also spotlights local Black-owned businesses, framing food and entrepreneurship as twin expressions of the freedom Juneteenth marks. A James Beard Award–winning chef in a neighborhood thick with civil rights history makes for a uniquely Atlanta observance.