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The Georgia Restaurant Association (GRA) announced the finalists for the 2025 Georgia Restaurant Association Crystal of Excellence (GRACE) Awards. Now in its 17th year, the GRACE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and hospitality excellence across Georgia’s restaurant and foodservice industry. 2025 GRACE AWARDS FINALISTS + HONOREES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE Philip … [Read more...] about Georgia Restaurant Association Announces Finalists for the 2025 GRACE Awards

Mary Mac’s Tea Room is celebrating its 80th Anniversary on Monday, Oct. 20. Since opening in 1945 on Ponce de Leon Avenue, Mary Mac’s Tea Room has grown from a single dining room with seating for 75 to six dining rooms and a full-service bar spread across 13,000 square feet. Though the restaurant has evolved over the decades, its kitchen still carries on the same traditions … [Read more...] about Mary Mac’s Celebrates 80 Years on Ponce

The Georgia Restaurant Association will honor Philip J. Hickey Jr., a trailblazing leader and innovator in the American restaurant industry, with the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Association’s highest honor. With a career spanning more than five decades, Hickey has left his mark on the hospitality landscape through entrepreneurial ventures, transformative leadership and … [Read more...] about Philip J. Hickey Jr. to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from GRA

Smorgasburg, launched in Brooklyn in 2011 and now America’s top weekly open-air food festival, will expand to the South with the launch of Smorgasburg Atlanta this fall. Located in South Downtown at 140 Forsyth Street SW, a 10-minute walk from Mercedes-Benz Stadium and sandwiched between Garnett and Five Points MARTA stations, the food festival will be open every Saturday from … [Read more...] about Smorgasburg Seeks Vendors for New Weekly Food Festival Launching in October

There is a fine line between efficiently cutting cost and sacrificing quality for revenue. In a landscape with increasing cost of goods, tariffs and taxes, it takes a focused effort not to cross this imaginary line. Let’s begin with a couple of real-life stories. A restaurant owner was concerned that he was having an inventory problem. When I examined his financial reports … [Read more...] about Clever Menu Engineering and Inventory Control Can Help Combat Higher Costs

Ten months after joining Umi Modern Japanese's sushi program as Lead Chef, Chef Kazuo Yoshida will begin featuring his signature omakase each week at M @ Umi, an intimate, eight-seat omakase experience. Open for one 7 p.m. seating each Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, beginning in mid-September, the experience will take place upstairs from Umi’s main dining room in … [Read more...] about New York’s ‘Uni King’ Brings Omakase to Buckhead Three Nights a Week

From apples to peaches to Vidalia onions, Georgia is home to some of the finest produce grown in the American South. From Brunswick stew to Savannah Red Rice, the state's signature dishes are steeped in history. In Taste the State Georgia, chef Kevin Mitchell and culinary historian David S. Shields reveal the stories and history that have made this rich food culture what it is … [Read more...] about New Cookbook by Georgia Chef Offers Tour of Georgia Foodways

Lazy Betty’s founding Pastry Chef Lindsey Davis is back in the kitchen at Lazy Betty, and beginning September 9, she’s offering a four-course Dessert Tasting Menu available in the restaurant’s Bar Lounge. Served nightly for a maximum of 12 guests, the new menu will feature four rotating, standard-sized desserts. A beverage pairing, including one dessert wine, one cocktail and … [Read more...] about Pastry Chef Returns to Lazy Betty for New Dessert Offerings