Art of the Meal

BoccaLupo serves up beautifully plated pasta and ingenious cocktails in an intimate space in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood.

A classic sushi restaurant in Buckhead with bracingly fresh fish, creative cocktails and a cutting-edge interior.

The Athens restaurant that helped make Southern food a national obsession has moved around the corner but retains its idiosyncratic soul.

Chef-owner Ford Fry’s take on an earlier style of American cooking – over open fires, with elemental and seasonal ingredients – all smoke-kissed.

In Flowery Branch, a restaurant featuring Southern cuisine feels both modern and mindful of a worthy food heritage.

The General Muir in Atlanta’s Emory Point celebrates the old delicatessen ways but comes up with a new standard. And, oh, that chopped chicken liver.

An Athens brasserie that combines a downtown slacker-student vibe with a more mature Parisian ethos of languid sipping and tasting.

A fun, hip spot in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood serves both sushi and creative cooked dishes to an appreciative and diverse clientele.

A longtime Decatur favorite makes a move to Buckhead, bringing some vestiges of its past and showcasing Chef Joe Truex.

Graft, Gwinnett County’s new farm-to-table restaurant, has a small, often-changing menu that is simple and creative – and some fine, inventive cocktails.