Must-see restaurants in Atlanta

  • JCT Kitchen & Bar

    Atlanta

    Upscaled Southern staples are the backbone at this trendy Westside Provisions District mainstay overlooking one of the city's iconic rail lines. Slow…

  • Smoke Ring

    Atlanta

    This sleek Castleberry Hill barbecue restaurant sits in the shadow of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The pulled pork is divine, especially in the breakfast…

  • Farm Burger

    Atlanta

    Southeastern sweetgrass-fed, locally farm-raised beef is the calling at this gourmet farm-to-table burger joint, a trailblazer in an ongoing Atlanta…

  • South City Kitchen

    Atlanta

    An upscale, long-standing Southern kitchen featuring tasty updated and elaborated staples like buttermilk-fried chicken served with sautéed collards and…

  • Mary Mac's Tea Room

    Atlanta

    Fried chicken (often voted Atlanta's best), tomato pie and fried green tomatoes are just a few of the Southern specialties that Mary Mac's has been…

  • Queen of Cream

    Atlanta

    This sweet creamery sources its dairy daily from Waynesboro and claims to be the only ice-cream parlor in Atlanta whipping up its dense and tasty wares…

  • Herban Fix

    Atlanta

    This contemporary vegan restaurant straddling Midtown and Downtown leans heavily Pan-Asian (the chef is Taiwanese) and will surprise you with its earthy…

  • Gaja Korean Bar

    Atlanta

    This small-plate hipster Korean feels like a find as it's tucked away a bit deeper into the parking lots of Flat Shoals Ave than some of its neighbors…

  • Ecco

    Atlanta

    Sustainable Ecco was named America's best new restaurant in 2006 by Esquire and you can certainly have a blowout meal here. But you can also go the tapas…

  • Amalfi Pizza

    Atlanta

    This new Neapolitan pizzeria makes a for a great Downtown stop for families, with the pies emerging from two dueling, 6000lb wood-burning brick ovens…

  • Sam's BBQ1

    Atlanta

    Sam's BBQ1 is run by grill-master Sam Huff, who makes pork so tender, sweet and satisfying that he's been immortalized in song (and on the Food Network)…

  • Rathbun's

    Atlanta

    The hip industrial space inside the old Atlanta Stove Works factory plays second fiddle to the diverse menu – eggplant fries with confectioner's sugar,…

  • Colonnade

    Atlanta

    Colonnade feels like it stepped out of some 1950s mid-century modern handbook on how to create a restaurant. But the clientele runs a demographic gamut –…

  • Star Provisions Market & Cafe

    Atlanta

    DIY gourmets will feel at home among the cheese shops and butcher cases, bakeries, organic cafe and kitchen-hardware depots attached to the city's finest…

  • Fat Matt's Rib Shack

    Atlanta

    Don't leave the Atlanta city limits until you sample Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Although it does serve chopped pork, we suggest a slab of ribs (though a half…

  • Foxx Original Jamaican Restaurant

    Atlanta

    Small and colorful takeout restaurant Foxx doles out some delicious beef patties, oxtail soup, curry goat and fish escovitch (vinegar-pepper sauce –…

  • Taqueria del Sol

    Atlanta

    Smoked-pork or fried-chicken tacos and to-die-for shrimp corn chowder are highlights of this Mexican-Southern marriage, an incomparable value in a city…

  • Home Grown GA

    Atlanta

    Southern favorites stick to your ribs after they're delivered across a bare counter at this friendly spot. Munch on chili-cheese slaw dogs or fried…

  • Victory

    Atlanta

    This spare, converted brick house in Decatur is a wonderful bargain gourmet-sandwich counter where baguettes are stuffed with white anchovies and lemon…

  • No Mas! Cantina

    Atlanta

    Though the design overkill feels a bit like dining inside a hungover piñata, this festive Downtown Castleberry Hill cantina is popular. Despite its quiet…

  • Sevananda

    Atlanta

    Widely considered one of Atlanta's best health-food stores, this is a gold mine for self-caterers.

More destinations you need to see