Recipes from metro Atlanta restaurants

Atlanta's Agave Restaurant offers Tomato and Serrano Grits Cakes — sometimes called "three pepper and roasted tomato" cakes — as an appetizer or side item.

Sun Dial Restaurant’s kids macaroni and cheese is a big hit with the parents too, says Rory Bancroft, executive chef for the Westin Peachtree Plaza.

The Consulate’s Kau Kau Coconut Shrimp recipe pairs coconut shrimp with a mashed sweet potato dish from Papua New Guinea called kau kau.

Chai liqueur is the base for a chai latte cocktail recipe made at The Third Door, a speakeasy in Marietta.

Cherokee Rose in Stone Mountain, Georgia, shares a recipe for crawfish cake with remoulade.

This recipe for Atlanta-based Bantam & Biddy's gluten-free flour mix can be used to coat fried chicken, shrimp, green tomatoes and more.

The Blueberry Sunrise has been on Vickery's menu since 2020. It was meant to be a seasonal cocktail but it's so popular, it's on the menu year-round.

Culinary director John Castellucci provides instructions for preparing the eggplant on a gas stovetop or outdoor grill.

Eggplant banh mi has been on the Star Provisions menu on and off for 12-15 years, but it's easy to make at home. H

Suzanne Vizethann, owner and executive chef of Buckhead's Buttermilk Kitchen, shares recipes from her restaurants and her home kitchen in her second cookbook, "Brunch Season."