38 Essential Restaurants Around Atlanta, 2025
"Kara Hidinger and chef Ryan Smith took ownership of the restaurant in 2020 and created the national nonprofit Giving Kitchen, which aides restaurant workers with financial and resource support in a crisis. The one Michelin-starred restaurant functions as a tasting menu restaurant to a neighborhood market, with food served daily from the back counter near the kitchen. The food remains as seasonal, creative, and thoughtfully composed as ever. For lunch, don’t skip the Grinder — a meaty and mighty sandwich with milk bread, pepperoni, mortadella, and olive tapenade, easily shared between two people. Dinner is a prix fixe five-course seasonal menu of about $200 a person on Thursdays (newly added), Fridays, and Saturdays. Reservations for dinner are required. Check out Staplehouse’s melon salad, which made our Best Things Eater Atlanta Ate roundup." - Eater Staff
