54 Perfect Day Trips from Atlanta
From surreal folk art environments to glitzy hotels, from secret gardens to town squares, here are our favorite quick escapes—all within 200 miles of Atlanta.
#12: One Eared Stag
Food writers are unfailingly enamored with chef-owner Robert Phalen’s ability to surprise with unorthodox unions of ingredients. (Our dining critic is still mooning over a brilliant plate of pan-fried dates with pine nuts, white...
#2: Cakes & Ale
Where does our dining critic eat most frequently whenoff the clock? Billy Allin’s buttery-lit boîte on the southeast corner of Decatur Square. No one vegetable-whispers like Allin, who accents the loveliest of-the-moment produce with...
#13: Rumi’s Kitchen
Buford Highway and Duluth hog the attention as the metro area’s hotbeds of global cuisines, but Sandy Springs warrants inclusion on the map. It’s home to a wealth of Persian restaurants, the crown jewel...
Give Atlanta challenge
Give Atlanta is an annual fundraising competition hosted by Atlanta magazine where charities compete to raise the most money with the top teams winning cash prizes.
#3: Restaurant Eugene
No other restaurant in town explores the relationship between Southern ingredients and the flavors of the world with more refinement and intellectual rigor. Chef de cuisine Jason Paolini oversees the kitchen of Gina and...
4th & Swift
On the brink of so much activity around the Old Fourth Ward–Inman Park neighborhoods—where Krog Street Market and Ponce City Market are both scheduled to open later this year, bringing a major influx of...
Cooks & Soldiers
The latest from sibling owners Stephanie and Federico Castellucci (Iberian Pig, Double Zero Napoletana, Sugo) is their finest effort yet.
Greenwood’s on Green Street
The exceptional down-home food served at this funky Roswell bungalow belies Bill Greenwood’s classical culinary training in the hotel system. If you engage him in a conversation about his cooking, Greenwood is much more...
