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You’ll be glad you ascended to this gem on the 30th floor of the Hilton Atlanta to enjoy its constantly evolving fixed-price menus (with plenty of choices) featuring high-level, French-influenced cuisine with international accents based on local ingredients — enhanced by knockout views of the city and beyond.

At this family-friendly Italian essential from the group behind Doc Chey’s Noodle House, the menu is full of old-school favorites (yes, there’s chicken parm; yes, there’s spaghetti and meatballs), and the thin-crust pizzas are perfection. In nice weather, ask for a table beneath the twinkling lights on the dreamy patio.

The Mediterranean comes to Sandy Springs with this cool, stylishly casual venue, featuring a menu that references Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, and various corners of the Middle East. After dinner, Mandolin invites guests to “Shisha ‘n chill” and the hookah service gets top marks.

You’re guaranteed to have a good time at this lively two-level Roswell gem, with its irresistible cocktails (including 10 margaritas), 50-plus tequilas, 30 beers on tap, live music, and trivia nights — not to mention a dozen or so burgers, assorted tacos, and a fiesta’s worth of Latin and Southern snacks.

Lino Joseph draws on his Haitian roots and his travels all over the West Indies to create the vividly flavorful Caribbean menu here — one of four Spice House locations around town. Expect innovations like jerk chicken egg rolls and Caesar salad with oxtails or Creole shrimp, with libations like a tropical margarita or a coco mojito on the side.

You won’t want to miss this elegant establishment, a collaboration between brother-and-sister Vinny and Kelan Watson of Sovereign Sweets and rapper Quavo of Migos, for its caviar-to-steak menu, cutting-edge cocktails featuring produce from local farms, wide-screen TVs streaming multiple sports, and knockout city views from its Midtown perch. 

You won’t want to miss this little corner of England in the midst of Madison’s picturesque Historic District, where the comfy, timeworn-looking interior is the perfect setting for enjoying elevated pub fare (fish ‘n’ chips, yes, but also braised lamb shank with polenta). Bonus: the classic cocktails are done with panache.

Because this is one for a festive night out: a super-casual venue with a vibrant Cajun and Vietnamese menu, and a cocktail list built for fun (frozen Vietnamese Irish coffee, anyone?). Pro tip: Check out the “po’boy possibilities” — including one irresistible po’boy/banh mi mashup.

A menu that mixes mezze and kebabs with rigatoni and linguine? Leave it to this buzzing Mediterranean and European restaurant to come through with said dream menu, while spotlighting premium bottle service, hookah pipes, and a live DJ that starts every night at 9 p.m.

A family-friendly neighborhood spot with a serious menu ranging from crab cakes to a wild boar ossobuco, Suite 2000 is also a full-on, state-of-the-art sports bar, full of memorabilia and high-def screens, with plenty of fun things to eat (spinach and artichoke fondue with naan, anyone?)

Prepare to be awed if you sync up with one of the monthly tuna-cutting evenings here, when chef Jackie Chang breaks down a whole bluefin tuna into an array of delicacies before your eyes. But you’ll be impressed regardless: The Japanese fare at this light-flooded Alpharetta grill-and-sushi spot is exquisite and always hits.

This longtime Inman Park favorite has French café roots, but chef and co-owner Demetrius Brown (known for his acclaimed Heritage Supper Club pop-up) hones in on French cuisine through an African and Caribbean lens (think quail à l’orange with benne seeds), and the results are très, très bons.

Flowers abound at this striking Mediterranean restaurant — in vases on the tables, patterning the booths and banquettes, and covering a ceiling-height floral “tree” overlooking diners as they dig into their babaganoush, stuffed grape leaves, kebabs, baklava, and other irresistible fare from Turkey, Greece, and beyond.

With dazzling views and impeccable cocktails, you might just forget to eat at this glittering rooftop bar and restaurant … But that would be a big mistake, because you’d be missing out on some next-level jalapeño hush puppies, salmon sliders, and honey garlic steak bites.

The 20-course omakase menu at this West Midtown gem is the real deal. Chef Leonard Yu — who first brought his impeccable sushi to Atlanta with pop-ups at Silom Thai & Sushi Bar and Brush Sushi Izakaya — sources Koshihikari rice from Niigata and fish from Tokyo’s Toyosu market, and turns his ingredients into something truly exquisite.

The famously healthy Mediterranean diet is front and center in this rustic-cool establishment overlooking Ormond-Grant Park, with a room full of custom woodwork and a plant-forward (but hardly meatless) menu — plus a gluten-free bakery turning out extravagant desserts that will leave you wondering why anyone needs gluten in the first place.

This comfortably casual, gloriously colorful outpost of the Red Pepper mini-chain will delight you with its big sun-flooded patio, its wide-ranging menu, and its treasury of Tequilas and mezcals — and those reasonably priced weekday lunch specials (yes, including birria tacos) will definitely brighten your day.

Café Agora on Peachtree Place delighted diners for a decade with its vividly flavorful Turkish, Greek, and other Mediterranean specialties — and now it’s back as Agora Midtown, bigger and brighter, with an even more seductive menu, full of shareable appetizers (don’t miss the meze platter), kebabs, and more.

Fans of Southern food, this one’s for you. In a homey repurposed 19th-century building by the MARTA tracks in Chamblee, husband-and-wife owners Mike Plummer and Amanda Averill rock the best of the region’s cuisine, from pimento cheese to hot chicken, but have fun, too: Their signature “Southern ramen” includes pulled pork and black-eyed peas.

You know a place whose name means “the local vineyard’ is going to offer plenty of great wines (in this case, mostly South American), and there’s vivid Latin fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But wait, there’s more: rare rums and other spirits (quinoa vodka!), stylish cocktails, and South American fair-trade coffees from small estates.

Dress sharp for this elegant cocktail lounge, whiskey-lover’s paradise, and high-tone bar-food restaurant (think shrimp Reuben sliders), perched on the 12th floor of the Hotel Colee in Buckhead, complete with a wraparound terrace boasting knockout city views.