Fall is award season, not just for TV. (Hello, Emmys!). This is the time of year when some of the publications that most know what’s afoot in the food world knight their chosen favorites for the year. For some pubs, that means dubbing a select handful of places as the best restaurants of the year. For others, it’s about name-dropping the country’s best chefs. However you use your abacus with that data, it means there’s a lot of good eating to be had.

Avize, Atlanta

Atlanta loves a lemon-pepper wing. It wasn’t until Avize opened that Atlanta discovered it also loves lemon-pepper frog legs. The Alpine-Atlantan cooking of Avize’s Karl Gorline slips right into the “tradition of Atlanta chefs expanding upon Southern food by leaning into their heritage,” said Pervaiz Shallwani at Bon App

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