Dishing on Atlanta’s dining hot spots
Atlanta is a food town through and through. Whether you’re in the mood for ramen or ribeye, there are options aplenty and those choices widened even further in 2016.
This year, the AJC’s dining team ate a lot of eggs to bring you the Best of Brunch, the theme for our popular Spring Dining Guide. We also scoured the burgeoning dining scene in Gwinnett to launch our first online-only, county-specific dining guide this summer.
Week after week, we shared our latest favorite dish from an Atlanta restaurant – that is, when we weren’t testing recipes for biscuits, picnics and no-cook dinners, all popular among our home cook readers.
In 2016, you especially enjoyed getting to know the faces behind the food, like our widely read profile of Paul Lubertazzi, owner of Paul’s Pot Pies in Marietta. You also showed us that, like the AJC’s food and dining writers, you too reminisce about Southern food and drink favorites, be it Hummingbird cake or Budwine.
The influx of reader letters came in the form of laughs – like when we gave you the inside story on this dining editor’s failed health inspection of her kitchen and her failed attempts to assimilate to certain Southern foods – but also poignant disagreements of opinion, such as when dining out with children.
What we all cheered together was Atlanta’s own Staplehouse being named best new restaurant in the nation.
Take a look back at the 2016 Must Reads in Food and Dining.
About the Author
Ligaya Figueras is the AJC's senior editor for Food & Dining. Prior to joining the AJC in 2015, she was the executive editor for St. Louis-based culinary magazine Sauce. She has worked in the publishing industry since 1999 and holds degrees from St. Louis University and the University of Michigan.
