December 2011: Best of Atlanta

December 2, 2011

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Best of Atlanta
Our annual celebration of the city’s best restaurants, shops, people, and activities is available on newsstands throughout Atlanta.
> See the list-in-progress as we reveal a few winners a day
> Explore our full list of Hall of Fame honorees from the past three years
> Check out eight superlative new food trucks
> Read about all the winners right now with our digital edition

MORE IN THE MAGAZINE

All of our Best of Atlanta winners · The Loecken family’s mission · Direct flights to Havana · Emory’s online religion magazine · Atlantic Station’s renaissance · Champagne’s for New Year’s · Holiday gifts for him and her from local boutiques · A hot real estate website comes to town · A Smyrna artist’s picturesque studio

> Get it all in the digital edition

> Learn about the digital edition

Solid Ground

Crushed under a house and left for dead after the Haiti earthquake, Roovens Monchil survived with help from strangers. Months later, they found each other again in Atlanta.

By Charles Bethea

FOOD & DINING
Review Richard Blais’s HD1
Column Finding solace at restaurants’ chummy bars

Recipe Joshua Hopkins’s roasted quail

> GALLERY: Photos of the recipe, from start to finishLIFE & STYLE

Style Buckhead’s Morgan Kylee wants to spice up the scene
Abode Swanky digs at the St. Regis
> GALLERY: Rooms by Patricia McLean and Suzanne Kasler
Home Phipps’s new home boutique, Arhaus
Real Estate Villa del Sol is for sale
> GALLERY: Shots from the $1,799,000 estate
Travel The Ritz-Carlton Lodge at Reynolds Plantation
Culture The ex-Georgia warden who tried to stop the execution of Troy Davis speaks out
History GSU’s Great Speckled Bird flies again
> GALLERY: Covers from throughout the paper’s history