"The Downtown Atlanta dining scene can look a little post-apocalyptic (we doubt The Walking Dead needed CGI). But walk into Ray’s In The City for lunch or dinner, and you’ll find every seat filled, from the bar to the rear dining room. That’s because this great Southern seafood restaurant is a decades-old, dependable go-to for local suits and business tourists who’ve been given company clearance to expense a couple hundred on a meal. Get the hot seafood platter, which comes with Ray’s signature tasty barbecue shrimp, and finish your meal with the gooey lemon butter cake (one of our favorite desserts in the city)." - nina reeder, juli horsford, jacinta howard