Two years after we gave it four out of four stars, Staplehouse is still on top.

Few chefs celebrate the region like Steven Satterfield does. He loves Georgia and accepts—with glee—what its soil gives him.

As long as Rui Liu's fermented long beans with “streaky pork” and fish braised in chili oil are on the menu, Masterpiece's crowds won’t wane.

Spring's dining room is intimate— just 14 tables—and Brian So’s cooking is technical, restrained, even reverent.

The best way to see Osaka-born chef Tomohiro Naito work his magic is to make reservations for his omakase at this restaurant in Buckhead’s Ritz-Carlton Residences.

In barely three years, Atlas has catapulted itself to the top of our fine dining pyramid.

The new Bacchanalia feels a little more relaxed, but the menu still offers those signature crab fritters with citrus and avocado as well as Anne Quatrano's impeccably sourced cheese course.

Linton and Gina Hopkins, the husband-and-wife team whose H&F brand continues to pop up across the city, give Southern food the white tablecloth treatment at their flagship restaurant.

The beauty of Gerry Klaskala’s food is that it’s fit for fine dining, but it’s not fussy.

Built upon the singular promise of eating well and without pretension, Kevin Gillespie’s Gunshow is still our city’s gutsiest restaurant.

Atsushi “Art” Hayakawa is not out to dazzle you with decor. This restaurant is a temple to fish, and the chef is nothing if not a purist.

In four years, Kimball House has become a staging ground for a new kind of Southern cool.

At Bruce Logue’s pasta bungalow, Old World Italian staples get New World makeovers.

While this dark little room in the corner of Krog Street Market is where mixologists Greg Best and Paul Calvert ply their trade, the kitchen pushes out a quality menu.

Much of this stretch of Midtown has become a bland, corporate landscape, but the Federal is a place to linger.

In its five years, the General Muir has become indispensable for its upscale New York–style Jewish deli–inspired menu.

The ocean-blue Kyma, which means wave in Greek, is Buckhead Life Restaurant Group’s brightest star.

If corporate bigwigs want to blow $6,000 on wine, they do it at this landmark wood-paneled steakhouse.

For those of us without Korean grandmothers, Yet Tuh’s chefs are the city’s closest substitutes.

What brings us back to O4W are the game-changing pizzas: classic round pies, thick-crust Sicilian ones, rectangular Detroit thick-crust, and square Grandma pies.

Bread & Butterfly doesn’t just look like a proper Parisian bistro; it operates like one.

When he opened the original B’s in Savannah in October 2014, Bryan Furman was one of the first to bring heritage pork to the barbecue world.

Mamak is an unapologetic reflection of real Malay cooking, which pulls from other South Asian traditions and blends them with a sure hand.

Eddie Hernandez and Mike Klank opened the first Taqueria del Sol on the Westside in 2000, cranking out crowd-pleasing $2 tacos.

After more than 30 years in some of Atlanta’s finest kitchens, Liechtenstein-born chef Peter Kaiser finally gets to see his name above the door of a restaurant.

Kudos to Meherwan Irani, who sticks to his spicy central and south Indian roots at Chai Pani restaurant in Decatur.

Both the Chamblee and Norcross locations of Nam Phuong are worthwhile starting points for discovering the joys of Vietnamese cuisine beyond pho and banh mi.

Together at Heirloom Market, Cody Taylor and Jiyeon Lee merge American and Korean barbecue traditions.

Its dining room may look nondescript, but Noble Fin is one of our most assured, satisfying seafood restaurants.

Ford Fry didn’t always launch behemoth restaurants with sky-high design budgets. In 2011, he opened this intimate Italian charmer in Decatur that remains his most sincere effort.

You might not expect to find one of the city’s greatest steaks among Cooks & Soldiers' traditional Spanish pintxos.

To many fans’ surprise (and delight), Narendra Patel and Ram Nanjuda returned to Decatur’s Madras Saravana Bhavan, where they opened under a new name in a pristine, pastel-colored dining room.

When Nhan Le and the late Angus Brown opened Octopus Bar in 2011, they shook up Atlanta's dining scene, offering small plates rife with primo ingredients like oysters and uni but served in a loud, dark room.

Doug Turbush brings a bright-white New Nordic aesthetic to an East Cobb strip mall, an unexpected location for an idiosyncratic restaurant.

Chef Andre Gomez draws on his Puerto Rican heritage at Porch Light, where he serves a beer-can chicken burrito and sofrito mac and cheese with pork rind crumbs.

Some of the best Neapolitan pies can be found in Woodstock, where chef and owner Michael Bologna cooks them in a wood-fired oven.

What with the mini-golf lawn outside, you don’t really need dinner to have a grand time at Ford Fry’s seafood sensation. But you'll want to eat.

Food Terminal is the quintessential expression of Buford Highway’s tradition-bending resurgence.

Anchored by a long, friendly bar, One Eared Stag is the kind of place nearby residents hit up twice a week.

Dwarfed in size by Ponce City Market across the street, 8Arm beams with independent spirit.

Ali Mesghali’s Persian restaurant is staged against a turquoise-tiled open kitchen curving along the back wall.

Ryan Pernice has invigorated downtown Roswell with two of the busiest restaurants in the area: Table & Main and Osteria Mattone.

We’d be a lesser town without this institution, which has been a go-to for the comforts of smothered pork chops, oxtails, and fried chicken since 1947.

Good Korean barbecue is the sum of its parts. At 9292, each part is a cut above.

This glossy steakhouse along the BeltLine’s Eastside trail has long attracted expense-account diners as well as date-night couples.

Dave Roberts is a veteran pitmaster dedicated to tender pulled pork and smoky St. Louis–style ribs.

You’ll find Desta’s dining room packed with people born in both Atlanta and Ethiopia.

This rustic Midtown centerpiece still draws enormous energy from its handsome bar, which opens at 7 a.m. with coffee, pastries, and bagels.

When Hudson Rouse, formerly of Home Grown, and his wife, Kathryn Fitzgerald Rouse, opened this earnest meat-and-three for breakfast and lunch almost two years ago, crowds flocked.

Lis Hernandez has been slinging arepas—stuffed cornmeal patties, crunchy from a hot grill—at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market since 2012.