Now Booking Holiday Special Events

We are booking Holiday Special Events now! With our elegant banquet  rooms of varying sizes, outdoor patio dining, and a seated, fully stocked bar area, we can host a range of occasions from corporate holiday parties to family gatherings to winter wedding receptions and more. Any dining room can be configured for formal sit-down meals or more casual buffet-style dining. Call for more information, pricing quotes, and menu options, including luncheons, seated dinners, and buffets. And we cater to you, too! Please call 404-634-6268 for bookings.

A Full Week of Dinner and a Diva: Boar's Head Feast

December’s Dinner and a Diva will feature a full week (Monday, December 17 through Friday, December 21) of the Madrigal Singers Boar’s Head Feast. Under the musical direction of Tom FitzStephens, the Madrigals are a 15th century costumed, a cappella vocal ensemble which specializes in secular and sacred music spanning the centuries. Established in 1994, the Madrigals have performed in a variety of venues including concerts at The High Museum of Art, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Cathedral of St. Philip, Metropolitan University, St. James Episcopal Church, and Peachtree Road United Methodist Church.

Enjoy this seasonal sensation by the Madrigal Singers from while dining on a four-course feast featuring a sampling of premium hors d’ oeuvres, fresh salad, choice of two gourmet entrees, decadent dessert, hot coffee/tea, and two glasses of fine wine, for only $65 per person (tax included; gratuity separate). The performers from the Capitol City Opera Company sing between each course. The evening begins at 6:15 p.m. with a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres reception; dinner and performance start promptly at 7 p.m. Reservations are required; please call 404-634-6268. If past history is any indication, every performance will be a sell-out.

Closed For Christmas Eve and Day

To allow our staff some much-deserved time off for the holiday, we’ll be CLOSED ALL DAY on Monday, December 24th (Christmas Eve) and Tuesday, December 25th (Christmas), as well as for lunch on Dec. 26th. We will reopen for dinner on Wednesday, December 26th. So enjoy the holidays with your friends and family and then visit us afterwards. Don’t forget, we’ll be open New Year’s Eve for a special six-course holiday menu.

Closed for Lunch on Black Friday

We hope everyone had a filling, and fulfilling, Thanksgiving yesterday! Just a reminder, to allow our staff some much-deserved time off for the holiday, we’ll be CLOSED FOR LUNCH today. We will reopen tonight, Black Friday, for dinner. So enjoy some shopping and then come take a break at our place. And don't forget, our custom-blended, flavored Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars make great holiday gifts!

4-Course Special Thanksgiving Menu

Make our favorite annual holiday tradition yours when you enjoy our special four-course Thanksgiving Holiday Menu featuring your choice of each of hearty soups, fresh, salads, gourmet entrees, and decadent desserts. Choose the traditional Thanksgiving feast or branch out with a beef, lamb, salmon, or shrimp option. We also offer perfectly portioned children’s menus with three courses of all their favorites. Adult meals cost just $44.95 while kids cost only $9.95 (plus tax and gratuity). Our regular lunch and dinner menus will not be served on Thanksgiving. Reservations are strongly recommended, as select time slots fill quickly, 404-634-6268.

Dinner and a Diva: Madama Butterfly

November's Dinner and a Diva brings you two wonderful evenings featuring highlights from Giacomo Puccini's Madam Butterfly, along with a great three-course dinner paired with wine. Set in and around a house on a hill overlooking the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, in 1904, Madam Butterfly tells the tragic story about the love between a United States Navy lieutenant living in Japan and the geisha his real estate and marriage broker friend has supplied him, Cio-Cio San.

Puccini wrote five versions of Madam Butterfly. The original two-act version, which was presented at the world premiere at La Scala on Feb. 17, 1904, was withdrawn after the disastrous premiere. Puccini then substantially rewrote it, this time in three acts. This second version was performed on May 28, 1904 in Brescia, Italy, where it was a great success.

This second version premiered in the United States in 1906, first in Washington, D.C., in October, and then in New York in November. In 1906, Puccini wrote a third version which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1907, Puccini made several changes in the orchestral and vocal scores which became known as the fourth version. The 4th was performed in Paris. In 1907.

Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version which has become known as the "Standard Version." This standard version is the one which is most often performed around the world. Interestingly, all five versions included “Un bel dì,” which remains one of the best-known arias in the soprano repertoire. 

Today, Madama Butterfly is a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, ranked 6th by Operabase; Puccini’s La bohème and Tosca rank 3rd and 5th. 

So make your plans now to join us at Petite Violette for a Dinner and a Diva evening on either Tuesday, Nov. 13 (SOLD OUT) or Thursday, Nov. 15. You'll hear Rachel Eve Holmes, soprano; Melissa Godbee, mezzo-soprano; Brendan Callahan-Fitzgerald, tenor; and Wade Thomas, baritone; accompanied by Capitol City’s music director, Catherine Giel, musically transport you to 1904 Japan with  highlights from Madam Butterfly. It'll be an evening you do not want to miss!