Fans of Buckhead’s Souper Jenny will immediately notice that Jennifer Levison’s second venture forgoes her signature food: There’s no soup on the menu. The omission allows other aspects of Levison’s culinary personality to take center stage. The cafe, named for her young son, serves create-your-own fruit salads and steel-cut oatmeal for breakfast, and quiches, frittatas, daily changing salads, and overstuffed sandwiches for lunch. Unlike at Souper Jenny, where the line constantly trails out the door, Cafe Jonah has a relaxed and mellow vibe—at least for now. After noshing in one of the converted house’s many charming nooks, explore the attic dedicated to spiritual inspiration, which includes books, candles, and a tarot reader or psychic set up in a cozy corner.
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Alon’s – Dunwoody
This is Atlanta’s quintessential modern market. The Morningside original opened in 1992, quickly settling into its status as a Morningside mainstay. Locals rely on sandwiches (garlic-roasted lamb with red onion marmalade is a gem), the case full of artisan cheeses, a breadth of takeout foods (fluffy meatballs, vegetable and pasta salads, and hummus and other spreads), and the bakery items upon which pastry chef Alon Balshan built his reputation. We never stop craving his chocolate chip–pecan cookies.
The Dunwoody location is a laudable suburban counterpart—same high-quality breads, desserts, cheese selection, and take-out foods but with more room, more specialty items, and Sunday brunch.
Alon’s – Morningside
This is Atlanta’s quintessential modern market. The original opened in 1992, quickly settling into its status as a Morningside mainstay. Locals rely on sandwiches (garlic-roasted lamb with red onion marmalade is a gem), the case full of artisan cheeses, a breadth of takeout foods (fluffy meatballs, vegetable and pasta salads, and hummus and other spreads), and the bakery items upon which pastry chef Alon Balshan built his reputation. We never stop craving his chocolate chip–pecan cookies.
The Dunwoody location is a laudable suburban counterpart—same high-quality breads, desserts, cheese selection, and take-out foods but with more room, more specialty items, and Sunday brunch.
Rise -N- Dine
This bright spot in Emory Village is the opposite of a hash house. Freshly squeezed juices, gourmet bacon, goat cheese scrambles, and sweet potato pancakes start the day on an upbeat note for the university crowd that has embraced the place with notebook-filled arms. Well-prepared sandwiches (e.g., egg salad on a croissant) make an appearance around lunchtime.
Souper Jenny
When actress-caterer-entrepreneur Jenny Levison opened her cozy Buckhead cafe ten years ago, it had six seats. Since then, she’s expanded the space twice to accommodate her loyal customers, who pack the place out for her stellar soups (we love the mushroom barley, turkey chili, potato white bean and cheese, and everything veggie) and Tuesday and Thursday night grilled cheese specials. The menu changes daily.
Stone Soup Kitchen
Selling homemade soups, nifty sandwiches, breakfast burritos, and scrambles, the restaurant blesses the Grant Park neighborhood with wonderfully simple food of even higher caliber than it offered when it was in Virginia-Highland all those years ago.
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