The Best New Atlanta Restaurants of 2024

Welcome to Rough Draft’s inaugural edition of Best New Restaurants!

I spent the last year dining at new restaurants across Metro Atlanta. After multiple visits to more than a dozen serious contenders, four restaurants and a pop-up, captured my attention again and again.

Restaurants in contention opened between Oct. 1, 2023, and Oct. 1, 2024. Like our coverage areas for Rough Draft, restaurants under consideration included those in the cities of Atlanta, Brookhaven, Tucker, Sandy Springs, and Dunwoody, along with restaurants in greater Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and southern Cobb and southern Gwinnett counties.

Nearly four years after the pandemic began, 2024 proved a turning point for Atlanta restaurants. While established places finally settled into a recalibrated groove this year, new restaurants shed light on the emerging trends, service models, chefs, and cuisines Atlanta can look forward to in the future. 

Our dining scene is thriving, with the 2024 award winners bringing something special to the table, including French-Caribbean dishes, Honduran street food, Scottish and Southern-inspired cuisine, Viet-Cajun barbecue, and Polish fare with a seasonal twist.

Introducing Atlanta’s Best New Restaurants of 2024:

https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2024/12/10/atlanta-best-new-restaurants-2024/