The Top 35 Places to Eat and Drink Near Quercus
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Rank 1. The BeiRut
Middle Eastern
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Dark wood and a dozen screens create the proper shrine to the game; Dave's draws its crowd with straightforward bar food—loaded nachos, sweet potato fries, buffalo wings—and beers that won't drain your wallet. The portions arrive generous and the TVs never stop talking, a place that understands what a sports bar should be.
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Rank 4. The Busy Bee
Southern
Since 1947, this narrow takeout counter has fed Atlanta's neighborhoods with fried chicken so crisp it shatters under tooth, collard greens, candied beans, and cobblers that taste like summer. The place is small, perpetually busy, and indifferent to trends—a soul food institution where daily specials matter more than the menu, and the only commitment required is to eat standing up.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
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Rank 5. Talat Market
Thai
In Summerhill's industrial-meets-vintage dining room, Parnass Savang and Rod Lassiter marry Thai fundamentals with Georgia's seasonal bounty, anchoring their menu in raw seafood and incendiary small plates. The crab-and-pork curry arrives subtle and layered, while house-pressed coconut milk curries reward the heat-seekers prowling a no-reservation counter that moves fast and uncompromising.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Southeast · Rod Lassiter and Parnass Savang
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Southeast · Rod Lassiter and Parnass Savang
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 6. Little Bear
International
In Summerhill, Jarrett Stieber's open kitchen sends out an eclectic, frequently shifting menu that pulls from culinary traditions across the globe. The dining room buzzes with locals and their dogs, all orbiting the bar for biscuits and dishes like spiced lamb with red pea doubanjiang or earthy chicken liver custard—a modest restaurant that takes nothing for granted.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation #14 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Atlanta
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants Around Atlanta
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Rank 7. Southern National
Southern
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Southeast · Duane Nutter
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
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Rank 8. Gunshow
New American
A dinner party perpetually in motion: Kevin Gillespie's tapas kitchen sends out a family-style parade of restless invention—strawberry and green garlic tarts topped with pop rocks, pork ribs glazed in tamarind and rose, cheese foam with grapefruit sorbet—each plate a small argument between sweet and savory that somehow works.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants Around Atlanta
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Rank 9. Banshee
Creative New American
East Atlanta's Banshee works a studied casualness—whitewashed brick, wood floors—that frames a menu alive with genuine invention. Fry bread arrives hot with pepperoni butter; the corzetti yields to crab; beets and blackberries clash with aquavit vinegar in ways that feel eager rather than showy. A place where New American cooking knows its own appetites.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
- The Infatuation #18 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Atlanta
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Rank 11. Ryokou
Japanese
Behind an unmarked door in an industrial building, Chef Paul Gutting seats fewer than a dozen guests at a bare counter to chart a region-by-region path through Japan's cuisines. The somen arrives with ice for temperature play, the black throat sea perch glistens under salt, and each course unfolds as a considered argument about restraint and ingredient.
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Rank 12. Ria's Bluebird
American
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
- The Infatuation #20 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Atlanta
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Rank 13. El Malo
Latin/Caribbean
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Atlanta
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Bars In Atlanta
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Rank 14. La Semilla
Latin (Vegan)
- Eater 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now
- Eater 38 Essential Restaurants Around Atlanta
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A neighborhood anchor for four decades, Ideal Sportsbar channels the particular warmth of a place where regulars know the bartender's name. Wings and tater tots arrive while pool balls crack and games flicker across every wall—the mechanics of devoted spectatorship refined to ritual.
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Rank 16. Oreatha's at The Point
Southern
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Rank 17. Emerald City Bagels
NY-Style Bakery
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Rank 18. Estrellita
Modern Filipino
A narrow room where owners Hope Webb and Walter Cortado serve Filipino classics with a modern sensibility. The roasted pork belly lechon arrives Cebu-style with crackling skin and lemongrass, while beef lumpia—crispy wrappers around Angus and vegetables—suggests refinement without pretense. Walk-ins only; patience rewards.
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Rank 19. Bomb Biscuit Company
Southern
What began as a pop-up evolved into a casual breakfast spot where the smell of fresh biscuits—traditional, jalapeño-cheddar, stacked with hot honey chicken—still dominates the newer, more spacious room. The cinnamon rolls arrive glazed with tangy cream cheese, but it's the biscuits themselves, built thick and buttery, that justify the pilgrimage.
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A brewery in the West End where massive screens broadcast games and a stone oven turns out pizzas with hot honey and pickled onions; the outdoor patio, ringed by fire pits, asks almost nothing of you but to settle in. Twenty taps deep in beer and built for the kind of watching that doesn't demand your full attention, it's a place where sports feel incidental to staying put.
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Rank 22. Strangers in Paradise
Tropical Cocktail Bar
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Rank 24. Tassili’s Raw Reality
Raw Vegan Vegetarian
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Rank 26. So So Fed
Lao Thai
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Rank 27. Paschal's
Southern
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Rank 30. Das BBQ
Texas-Style Barbecue
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In East Atlanta Village, this corner pub trains its gaze on soccer—especially during the World Cup—while the beer list ranges from local breweries to European imports. The kitchen leans Irish: fish and chips, bangers and mash, a brunch on weekends that feels built for the crowd that lingers over a pint.
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Rank 35. Home Grown
Southern
In Reynoldstown's knotty-pine booths, Home Grown serves breakfast and lunch with the unassuming air of a neighborhood fixture, though its daily specials—tamales, snapper tacos, frog legs—suggest deeper ambitions. A buttermilk biscuit crowned with crisp chicken and sausage gravy arrives as proof that restraint and audacity need not conflict.