Staplehouse Is An 'Essential Restaurant' According To Eater

ATLANTA, GA -- Staplehouse, in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward community, has landed on Eater’s list of essential restaurants in America. The list is curated by the publication’s national critic, Bill Addison, who writes that he traveled across 36 cities in 34 weeks to compile the list. Addison says the restaurants on the “essential” list are the kinds of places that become indispensable to their neighborhoods.

"Ryan Smith crafts the right-now model of the mid-priced tasting menu, serving a dozen or so constantly evolving courses; dishes might involve modernist mousses and powders but never spiral too far from an end goal of accessible pleasure," the listing said. "Co-owners Jen Hidinger and Kara Hidinger (Smith’s wife) lead the front of house with Southern graciousness."

The list released on Tuesday is the fifth edition in Eater’s series and includes 17 restaurants appearing for the first time. Five restaurants on the list have been included in the compilations five consecutive times. Overall, 38 restaurants in America made it on the list.

The Grey in Savannah was the only other Georgia restaurant to make the list.

Read more about the featured restaurants via Eater.

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