6 Atlanta restaurants with farmers market specials on the menu
Best bets for eating seasonally
Photo credit: Eric Cash/CL File
Seasons form the natural backdrop for eating. Our Atlanta farmers markets are not only full of fresh, local produce, but also chefs shopping for the evening’s special. Some chefs even pick from their own restaurant gardens. Their establishments often have farmers walking in the back door with baskets of local goodies. Always answer yes to the question “Wanna hear the special?” This means enjoying a plate of food at its seasonal peak, when it is healthiest and tastiest. Here are seven restaurants with seasonal specials always worth ordering.
BoccaLupo
Chef Bruce Logue has transformed the former home of Sauced into a modern industrial scheme complete with rustic wood, gray walls, and white enamel fixtures. Expect old standards from Logue’s former post at La Pietra Cucina, like his famous black spaghetti, as well as authentic new dishes featuring p...
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Empire State South
This outpost of Hugh Acheson’s restaurant empire delivers the best spin on New Southern dining in Atlanta. Familiar dishes like pimento cheese, farm eggs, local trout, and pork belly are anything but clichés when they arrive at the table. Order your bourbon cocktails in a mason jar.
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Kimball House
In a town where cocktails are taken very seriously, Kimball House quietly took over the title of everyone
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Miller Union
Longtime Watershed sous chef Steven Satterfield and Sotto Sotto manager Neal McCarthy have come together to deliver a personal-feeling, truly regional restaurant, serving Southern food without shtick or embellishment among the warehouses and train tracks of the Westside.
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Watershed on Peachtree (permanently closed)
Watershed’s menu features local, seasonal, soulful dishes inspired by Southern traditions and artful technique. The restaurant’s famous fried chicken recipe is literally written on both a quilt on the wall and on the matchbooks handed out at the hostess stand. But if you want actual fried chicken, m...
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Wrecking Bar Brewpub
A comfortable restaurant in an uncooperative space with heavy stone walls in the basement of a Victorian-style home. There’s a lot of wood everywhere, including a bar that is virtually hidden from much of the dining room. Farm-to-table food. Great original brews.
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The list above first appeared in the 2016 CL Cityguide and was updated by CL Staff recently.