Now on Resy: Pasha Restaurant, Bread & Butterfly, Whiskey Bird, and More Local Favorites

A menu that mixes mezze and kebabs with rigatoni and linguine? Leave it to longtime Atlanta restaurateur Okan Ozyurteri (of Mandolin Mediterranean Kitchen) to come through with a moody Mediterranean and European restaurant, featuring 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.

Here’s a combination that’s so off-the-wall but so deliciously right you’ll wonder why nobody’s thought of it before: Internationally flavored tapas matched to a treasure trove of frozen (i.e., “slushed”) cocktails. There’s a hookah menu, too, in this elegant environment couched in marble, leather, and abundant greenery.

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.

At this extravagant three-level establishment with its rustic-contemporary décor (neon lighting, wood-slat floors, bronze accents, sculptural walls), the emphasis is on luxury — complete with both American and Japanese Wagyu beef and a prime rib cap encrusted with 24-karat gold.