Westside staple Bacchanalia is the only restaurant that AJC food writer John Kessler awarded 4 stars in 2014's Dining Guide. It has been an Atlanta staple for over 20 years, and now it is nominated for Outstanding Restaurant in the food industry's James Beard Awards. What makes Bacchanalia so great? Kessler said, "we keep returning because the one constant about Bacchanalia is that it never stops changing and evolving," which is important in a growing restaurant scene like Atlanta.

The husband-and-wife team of Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison are doing something right, because it consistently ranks as one of the city's top restaurants year after year. Find out if Bacchanalia makes the final list of nominees on Tuesday, March 24 and see the rest of Atlanta's 13 nominations. 

Meet the rest of the nominees in our gallery here.

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Waymo autonomous vehicles operate across 65 square miles inside I-285 and have been involved in six incidents with Atlanta Public School buses since May. Waymo issued a recall because of their cars briefly stopping or slowing down before continuing forward while a bus was stopped and flashing its lights. (Courtesy of Atlanta Public Schools)

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