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Top Ten Restaurants in Georgia

9 of the 10 are pinned on the map above. Neither OpenStreetMap nor Wikidata carries a location for Miller Union, so it is listed below but not pinned — a missing pin is left missing rather than guessed at. Each row also links straight to its own location in Google Maps.

The MICHELIN Guide American South covers Georgia. Starred restaurants lead this list.

The ten
# Restaurant City Distinction Cuisine
1 Atlas Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2023 American
2 Bacchanalia Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2023 American
3 Hayakawa Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2023 Japanese
4 Lazy Betty Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2023 Contemporary
5 Mujō Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2023 Japanese
6 O by Brush Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2024 Japanese
7 Omakase Table Atlanta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2024 Japanese
8 Spring Marietta MICHELIN One Star, held since 2024 Contemporary
9 Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room Savannah James Beard America's Classics (2000) Southern, family style
10 Miller Union Atlanta James Beard Best Chef: Southeast, Steven Satterfield (2017) Southern

Why these ten

Georgia's stars arrive through two guides that are really one lineage. The MICHELIN Guide Atlanta opened in 2023 with five one-star restaurants and added four more in 2024. In 2025 the Atlanta edition was folded into the wider MICHELIN Guide American South, which now covers Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and whose inaugural selection was announced on 3 November 2025. Georgia came out of that with eight one-star restaurants: no Georgia room holds two or three, and the region's only two-star is Emeril's in New Orleans.

Eight stars leaves two places, and those go to James Beard Foundation winners rather than to Bib Gourmands. A Bib is a value recommendation from the same inspectors who award the stars, but it sits below a Beard win on this series' ladder, so Antico Pizza Napoletana and Arepa Mia — both 2023 Bibs, both still in the current selection — are the two entries that give way. Within the Beard tier the order is by the year of the award, oldest first, which puts Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room and its 2000 America's Classics award ahead of Steven Satterfield's 2017 Best Chef: Southeast for Miller Union.

The state's oldest Beard win needed no slot of its own: Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison took Best Chef: Southeast in 2003 for Bacchanalia, which is already at number two on its star.

Georgia has more Beard winners than places for them, so three more names sit just outside. Mashama Bailey took Best Chef: Southeast in 2019 and Outstanding Chef in 2022 at The Grey in Savannah, which is the most decorated Beard record in the state and still misses the ten on award year alone. The Busy Bee Café in Atlanta is an America's Classic from 2022, and Terry Koval won Best Chef: Southeast in 2023 for The Deer and the Dove in Decatur. Two more were checked and rejected: Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods in Athens, an America's Classic from 2007, closed in 2026, and Hugh Acheson's Five and Ten in Athens, the co-winner of Best Chef: Southeast in 2012, was sold in April 2024 and could not be confirmed as still trading.

Two things a reader should know before travelling. Staplehouse earned a star in 2024 and lost it in 2025, which is why a name that still circulates in Atlanta coverage is missing here. And the guide's Georgia footprint is metro Atlanta plus Marietta and Avondale Estates: Savannah, Athens and Macon have no entries at any rung of the current MICHELIN selection, whatever their local reputations. Savannah appears on this list only because the James Beard Foundation reaches where the guide does not.

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