The Sweet Spot

Journal-Sun

Downtown Atlanta has a new offering for those who have an after hours sweet tooth, or an early evening pick-me-up. The Sweet Spot provides the Atlanta Texas Downtown with a good alternative to driving to Texarkana to sit down for deserts or coffee. Those looking a good place to hang out and enjoy the company of friends and family in the early evening hours will now have a place to go. Typically, unless there are special events the only thing open after are restaurants and big box stores.

In Atlanta’s newest downtown business, one can walk in with an eager smile and leave with a blue tongue. It’s The Sweet Spot. And, if sweets and coffee make one happy, this is the place.

The ice cream here is hand-dipped, and the blue tongue is from the debut of Blue Bell’s new concoction Monster Cookie Dough Ice Cream. Kids certainly like the blue monster look.

The sweets are handmade by the owners Karen and Tim Collins. The coffee percolating is of the specialty variety. Its grounds have been purchased from Mission Atlanta, a group that supports those needing assistance.

When entering The Sweet Spot on East Hiram, one actually feels as if one is going inside a chocolate factory. The furnishings are brown, the walls have chocolate syrup dripping from their sides, the decorations have accents of wood and brick and the signs and pictures everywhere tell you that this is an ice cream shop of the old day.

It’s a place not for delicate parties but for the bringing of children and grandparents, friends and strangers to see and taste the latest in cookies and cakes. Sweets, in other words.

Here you can find Rabbit Munch, cake pops, milk chocolate potato chips, cotton candy ice cream, dipped Twinkies and much more.

For Karen and Tim Collins their new sweet shop is a long time dream, they said. He is a pastor, and she is a seventh grade science teacher going on 12 years.

“We’ve been looking for a building that had space and felt right. This location seems to have a porch as well,” Karen said.

Their biggest problem now that a month or two has gone by is “keeping up with the demand. Just so many customers sometime,” Karen said.

The Sweet Spot is open 3 to 9 p.m. Monday- Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays. It’s closed Wednesdays and Sundays.