Local Jewelry: Made Again
This new Inman Quarter incubator for local artists focuses on housewares, but step past the lamps and pillows and you’ll find an artfully arranged selection of jewelry from more than a dozen Atlanta designers.
New Southern Style Source: The Porch on South Main
With its wide, inviting front porch, red door, American flag, and clusters of hydrangeas, this circa-1919 white clapboard house looks straight out of Southern Living.
Daring Meal: Parts Menu at Holeman and Finch Public House
The offal at Linton Hopkins’s gastropub may daunt even the most red in tooth. But muster up the nerve and you’ll be rewarded with delicate veal brains cooked in black butter and capers, lightly fried lamb testicles, and Ossabaw hog head cheese.
New workout: CorePower Yoga
CorePower Yoga offers the typical hot-room vinyasa flow classes, with highly skilled teachers—Samson is particularly good—leading you through a fast-paced set of warrior poses and chaturangas.
Personal Endorsement: Restoration Hardware
I wrote my first story about Restoration Hardware in 1998, after it opened in Lenox Square. Admiring the Arts and Crafts–style casegoods, I realized how stupid I’d been to dismiss my grandparents’ Mission buffet as “old-fashioned.”
Best of Atlanta 2015
Our annual roundup of everything spectacular, exceptional, riveting, entertaining, stylish, and delicious.