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The Atlanta restaurant openings we’re looking forward to this winter and beyond.

Winter in Atlanta means bundling up in your favorite sweater or hoodie, sipping wine on heated patios, and soaking up all those moody, rainy days. But our favorite part of the season is scouting out the latest restaurant openings that pop up just as the temperatures dip—because nothing warms up a chilly day like discovering your next favorite hot spot.

We love our ribs, so we're happy that ATL will add another BBQ spot to its roster this year. Popular South Carolina BBQ joint, Lewis Barbecue is set to open at Ansley Mall in Piedmont Heights. Expect brisket along with pork spare ribs, sausages, pulled pork, and turkey. And yes, vegetarians, we hear they are cooking up something for you, too.

Opening Winter 2025

Buckhead’s steakhouse obsession continues with the coming addition of Luella, from the team behind and . It’ll take over the former Ivy space on Roswell Road, and in the new private dining and membership wave, will eventually include a members-only cocktail club.

Opening Winter 2025/2026

Atlanta will add another Latin and Peruvian restaurant to its growing roster when Casa Coya lands in Reynoldstown at the Madison Yards development. The spot comes from the owner of Pisco Latin Kitchen in Sandy Springs.

Opening Winter 2026

The team behind , one of our favorite omakase spots in town, will open Koshu Club. The Japanese supper club will open across from the St. Regis in Buckhead. Expect slow-grilled meat, mid-century vibes, and hopefully easier-to-get reservations.

Opening Winter 2026

Kinship Butter & Sundry, one of our favorite breakfast spots in town, is bringing its VaHi charm to Grant Park. The new spot—next to the former —will feature a full-service café and bar, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, craft beer, wine, and cocktails.

West Midtown is living a Terry McMillan novel. After a few closures, it’s been on a pursuit to get its groove back, and this time with a second location of Ladybird. Opening in the Star Metals district, it’ll add some greenspace to the area. So our guess is yes, it’ll still be fine to bring Winston, your french bulldog when you drop by for drinks.

Opening Spring 2026

From the creators of the pop-up The Plate Sale, Mule Train is heading to South Downtown, joining the growing number of restaurants that have finally made that area a thing, right in time for the 2026 World Cup. The Southern restaurant will focus on local, seasonal ingredients.

Opening Spring 2026

Egg lovers, rejoice. LA’s Eggslut is expanding to Atlanta, bringing their pillowy egg sandwiches to Krog District. Think soft scrambled eggs with chives, cheddar, caramelized onions, and sriracha mayo on a brioche bun—another reason for us to get in our morning Beltline walks.

The team behind is launching Heritage in Summerhill, upstairs from ’s basement bar. Inspired by their acclaimed Afro-Caribbean Heritage Supper Club (established in 2021), the restaurant will spotlight African, Caribbean, and Black American cuisines through seasonal tasting menus, with an à la carte option available in the lounge. We just hope they bring their Haitian patty here.

Opening Spring 2026

The 404 gets more love from the 305. Miami’s cult favorite pizzeria Mister 01 continues its Atlanta expansion with a new location in Inman Park—joining existing outposts in Sandy Springs and Buckhead.

Our favorite local burger chain, Grindhouse Killer Burgers is set to open yet another location, this one in Underwood Hills in 2025, near Chattworks. The location will get an upgrade, with an adults-only rooftop deck—so expect skyline views with your boozy Spottie Ottie cChocolicious shake and juicy burger.

Opening 2026

Upper West Market, a farmer's market, which will include stalls like Hop City Beer & Wine, Dips Kitchen, and Honeysuckle Gelato among others, is set to open this year. But don't be mistaken—they insist they are not a food hall.

Opening 2026

The team behind Talat Market is bringing a new Thai restaurant and bar, Some Luck, to Poncey-Highland. The new restaurant will take over the Highland Ballroom Lounge space and will feature bar snacks, noodle soups, wings, and other dishes inspired by late-night food stalls in Thailand. And it's expected to stay open late, so we have plans to roll up in our PJs to order Thai beer and eat grilled meats.

Opening 2026

Cuevacía is the next move from the Saints + Council team. It’ll open in Colony Square with Oaxacan and Northern Mexican dishes, mezcal, and sleek cave-like booths for your inner Batman.

Opening 2026

From dorm-room deli to food truck fame, the Drakes brothers are bringing their New York-style bodega offerings to a brick-and-mortar location on MLK, near the AUC. At MoMo Bros Bodega, expect chopped cheese, oxtail mac and cheese, andbites that might make you question your loyalty to instant

Opening 2026

We love , so a second location in Brookhaven is music to our ears. The Mexican restaurant will offer a range of Latin wines—that sings to us as well.

Opening 2026

Atlanta’s on a bit of a “members only” streak lately, and the rumor is that Seahorse might join the club. From the team behind Muss & Turner’s, , and War Horse (their current membership-exclusive bar), the sushi restaurant is set to open in 2025 inside the Borghese business building. Expect it to be big (and maybe pricey)—2,943 square feet, with a buildout just over $1 million.

Opening 2026

Students at the AUC will have a new brunch and coffee option to check out when Black-owned Rosie’s Coffee Cafe opens its fourth location in the newly revitalized Roosevelt Hall. The hall just got a historical marker. Can your neighborhood pancake spot boast that?

Opening 2026

After 80 years in business, the iconic Busy Bee Cafe is finally getting a second hive. This one will be 4,000 square feet, with a bar and a patio. It'll open in Atlantic Station, and we may be willing to suffer the city's ultimate teen zone if it yields a bite of Busy Bee's excellent fried chicken and peach cobbler.

Opening 2026

The old McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood & Steakhouse downtown will get a glow up, just in time for the World Cup when high-end seafood and steakhouse Mastro’s is reportedly set to take over the space. As much as we’re excited about the World Cup, I think we’re even more excited for Mastro’s butter cake.

Opening 2026

The team behind Delbar and Bibi (restaurants we already ) are opening a new French Mediterranean spot called Eden in the Star Metals District in 2026. It sounds like a production—there’s a 50-seat bar, a movie theater-style speakeasy inspired by Iranian cinema, and a 2,300-square-foot rooftop bar called (of course) the Garden of Eden.

The plan focuses on two large parcels purchased by the city from Smyrna First Baptist Church, which is moving to a new location in two years.

SMYRNA, Ga. — The city of Smyrna unveiled an ambitious downtown redevelopment plan this week that, if fully realized, would add 350 new homes to the area as well as a hotel, small food hall, greatly expanded mixed-use space and a bike/foot path.

It is a nearly-finalized plan that would primarily transform two large parcels of land next to the existing downtown footprint.

In its current state, the parcels include the Smyrna First Baptist Church complex and its parking lot, west of Atlanta Road, and a further plot across King Street that includes another parking lot and ball fields. The city purchased the land from the church earlier this year for just shy of $16 million, and the church will move to a new location sometime in the next 2-3 years, the same time development would be slated to begin.

The plan released Monday night includes several core features -- large new mixed-use ad residential developments on either side of King Street where the parking lots and ball fields currently sit; a "Jonquil Mile" bike/foot path extending up King Street and around the new developments (connecting to new pathways already built around the north end of the downtown footprint by the city library and community center); a boutique hotel to go on top of an old out-of-use church building at the corner of Memorial Place and Church Street; and an event/green space across from the hotel site next to the church's historic chapel, which would be preserved into the redevelopment design.

Luis Calvo with MKSK, a planning and urban design firm that consulted with Smyrna, spoke at Monday night's meeting and did note that realistically, "What you all see built on the site will almost surely not look like the massing that I'm showing you today."

"This is a community driven vision. These are things that we know are important to you all. It is now council and the city's jobs to align the needs of a developer with this vision and make a development that gets us somewhere in the middle," Calvo said. "Hopefully more towards the community priorities, but somewhere that's realistic."

He noted that any final deal between the city and a developer would include negotiations that alter the plan presented Monday night.

A rendering for the King Street mixed-use redevelopment was included in the plan, as was a rendering of the reimagined chapel space as well as photos of bike/foot paths in Indianapolis and Carmel, Indiana that give a sense of how the "Jonquil Mile" would look.

The King Street developments would be about five stories high, officials said at Monday night's meeting.

The plan would include parking decks for each of the two new mixed-use builds, though the city anticipates reduced vehicle demand in the area with more bikeability and walkability built in.

There would also be expanded sidewalks/outdoor dining space on West Spring Street, which is the current spine through the existing Market Village downtown development (that would also coincide with a narrowing of the current green median).

According to the city, what would happen next is tweaking any final revisions, testing the plan's development feasibility and providing recommendations for the future bid process in finding a developer. The city would, provisionally, adopt the plan officially in January or February.

The city outlined the process of finding a developer in a slide included in the plan.

You can see an overview of the existing site below.