Lunch is probably the most underappreciated meal of the day, but not in Atlanta. It’s pretty much the only time when I-75/85 traffic doesn’t look like a tailgate lot. That alone is worth a meal.

More than 200 restaurants, food hall stalls, breweries, bakeries and coffee shops opened this year in metro Atlanta. Check out the full list to see what to put on your “to try” list.

OpenTable ranks the top 100 restaurants from around the U.S. This year's list included two from Georgia. Here's how they made the cut.

We've got some catching up to do. The last time Atlanta published a best-restaurants issue was approximately three millennia ago, in June 2019. Things in the interim have been—you may have ...