Innumerable names and faces deserve credit for keeping Atlanta well fed and for keeping this city on the national culinary radar year after year. Yet, there are select folk in the midst of pivotal moments.

Those having breakout years include entrepreneurs with dining concepts that resonate with the times. They are chefs who have been given (no, earned) keys to the kitchen and are demonstrating that they are up to the challenge. In the beverage world, we’ve got our eyes on a bartender giving cerebral thought toward cocktails and a brewer doing the same with beer.

Read more about up-and-comers who are shaking up Atlanta’s food and drink scene right now.

Check out our favorite new metro Atlanta restaurants, food and drink trends, time-tested restaurants and more at myajc.com/food.

8Arm pastry chef Sarah Dodge in her kitchen prepping cookies. Photo credit- Mia Yakel.
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Toi Cliatt, Trina Martin and her son, Gabe Watson, say they were traumatized when an FBI SWAT team raided their Atlanta home by mistake in 2017. (Courtesy of Institute for Justice)

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