New American
Gunshow
924 Garrett Street, Suite C, Atlanta, GA, 30316
404-380-1886
Leave everything you know about traditional restaurant service at the door of Kevin Gillespie’s new Glenwood Park playground.
Website: http://www.gunshowatl.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Grant Park, Ormewood Park
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, New American, Restaurants
Haven
1441 Dresden Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30319
404-969-0700
Haven’s habitat, in a pioneering multiuse development that still feels like a microcosm of the good life, turned out to be an excellent business decision for Buckhead Life Group veteran Michael Arnette.
Website: http://www.havenrestaurant.com/chef_team.htm
Neighborhood: Brookhaven
Category: New American, Restaurants
JCT Kitchen & Bar
1198 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA, 30318
404-355-2252
Trains rumble behind the property, adding a touch of romance to this handsome restaurant in the Westside Urban Market. Dinner is the jackpot meal at JCT, when the kitchen best executes recalibrated Southern standards.
Website: http://jctkitchen.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Westside / Home Park
Category: New American, Restaurants, Southern/Soul
King + Duke
3060 Peachtree Road NW, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-477-3500
You’ll barely recognize the space that housed Nava for nearly two decades. The menu could be labeled “of-the-moment New American,” with dishes like candied lamb belly with sheep’s milk feta and marinated cucumbers.
Website: http://www.kinganddukeatl.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: New American, Restaurants
Local Three
3290 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30327
404-968-2700
Located at Joël’s former home, owners Todd Mussman and Ryan Turner’s of Muss & Turner’s have plenty of fans following this all-American charmer at the edge of Buckhead.
Website: http://www.localthree.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead, West Paces Ferry / Northside
Category: New American, Restaurants
Miller Union
999 Brady Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30318
678-733-8550
You won’t find chef and co-owner Steven Satterfield’s oft-changing menu riddled with cliches of Dixie cooking. But the Georgia native, who grew up in the Lowcountry, approaches the stove with an innate Southern graciousness.
Website: http://www.millerunion.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Westside / Home Park
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, New American, Restaurants, Southern/Soul
Nikolai’s Roof
255 Courtland Street, Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, 30303
404-221-6362
Downtown’s dinosaur of fine dining, in operation on the thirtieth floor of the Atlanta Hilton since 1976, received a face-lift this winter: The crimson disco-era trappings have been replaced with a sea-foam green color scheme that looks like a beach resort circa 1989.
Website: http://nikolaisroof.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Downtown
Category: New American, Restaurants
One Eared Stag
1029 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30307
404-525-4479
Robert Phalen is the wild child among Atlanta chefs, and his restless imagination conjures some of the most unlikely but satisfying food in the city.
Website: http://oneearedstag.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Inman Park
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, New American, Restaurants, Small Plates
Restaurant Eugene
2277 Peachtree Road, Aramore Building, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-355-0321
Dining these days is as much about the buzz as the food. For those times, though, when you seek an intimate tete-a-tete, plan an evening at Linton Hopkins’s south Buckhead fortress of quietude.
Website: http://restauranteugene.com/
Neighborhood: Buckhead
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, New American
Restaurant Eugene
2277 Peachtree Road, Aramore Building, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-355-0321
Dining these days is as much about the buzz as the food. For those times, though, when you seek an intimate tete-a-tete, plan an evening at Linton Hopkins’s south Buckhead fortress of quietude.
Website: http://restauranteugene.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: New American, Restaurants
Robert Phalen at One Eared Stag
1029 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30307
404-525-4479
Fried chicken necks and Bolognese sauce made with pig’s foot meat?
Website: http://oneearedstag.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Inman Park
Category: American, New American, Restaurants
Seed Kitchen & Bar
1311 Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta, GA, 30068
678-214-6888
Early on, this one looks like a coup for OTP dining. Doug Turbush left his position at Buckhead’s fusion-themed Bluepointe to launch a place in his own hood with a menu reflecting global influences.
Website: http://www.eatatseed.com/
Category: Fusion/Eclectic/Global, New American, Restaurants
The Branded Butcher
225 North Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA, 30601
706-850-5152
Formerly the chef at Athens institution Farm 255, Matt Palmerlee brings the charcuterie trend to the Classic City.
Website: http://www.facebook.com/thebrandedbutcher
Category: New American, Restaurants
The Lawrence
905 Juniper Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309
770-710-1618
This stylish gastropub offers indie spunk, outside-the-box dishes like gnocchi in fennel frond pesto paired with pork rinds, and a pioneering mixologist.
Website: http://www.thelawrenceatlanta.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Gastropub, New American, Restaurants
The Spence
75 Fifth Street, Atlanta, GA, 30308
404-892-9111
Richard Blais returns to the kitchen full-time at this Midtown partnership with Concentrics, offering a dinner menu that evolves daily. Small plates are the early standouts, and sommelier Justin Amick is the breakout star.
Website: http://www.concentricsrestaurants.com/p/landing.html
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Molecular Gastronomy, New American, Restaurants