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The Best Steakhouses in Georgia

Georgia has 61 steakhouses across 32 cities and towns in this directory. Atlanta holds 15, the northern suburbs hold a surprising amount more — Alpharetta alone has 6 — and Savannah has 4. The rest run from Lookout Mountain in the far northwest corner down to Thomasville near the Florida line.

What Georgia does not have is a beef industry worth speaking of. It has something that turned out to matter more.

The Georgia Ten

1. Bone’s (Buckhead) — opened by Susan DeRose and Richard Lewis in 1979 and still the definitive Atlanta steakhouse. Atlanta Magazine named it the city’s best for 18 consecutive years, and it holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The walls are covered in caricatures of local power brokers, which is the most honest possible description of the clientele.
2. Chops Lobster Bar (Buckhead) — open on West Paces Ferry since 1989 and the flagship of the Buckhead Life group. Mahogany and white tablecloths upstairs, the lobster bar below.
3. Marcel (West Midtown) — Ford Fry named it for the French boxer Marcel Cerdan and built it as a tribute to the early-1900s beefsteak dinner, the all-night eating clubs that produced places like Keens in New York. Oxblood banquettes, brass, and blackout curtains that make five in the afternoon feel like midnight.
4. C. Ellet’s (The Battery) — opened in 2017 by James Beard Award-winning chef Linton Hopkins, next to the Braves stadium. A5 striploin and Mishima Reserve cuts, and the best cooking of any ballpark-adjacent restaurant in the country.
5. Kevin Rathbun Steak (Inman Park) — open since 2007, generous to the point of excess, and the choice when you want Atlanta steak without Buckhead formality.
6. Little Alley Steak (Buckhead) — dry-aged beef and a deep bourbon list, with an original room up in Roswell on the square.
7. Arnette’s Chop Shop (Brookhaven) — a neighborhood chophouse that consistently outperforms its address.
8. Oak Steakhouse (Alpharetta) — the Indigo Road group’s Georgia room, running the same dry-aging program as its siblings in North Carolina.
9. Canyon Grill (Rising Fawn) — on Lookout Mountain in the far northwest corner of the state, and the single most remote entry on this list. People drive from Chattanooga for it.
10. Colt & Alison (St. Simons Island) — the coastal option, on the Golden Isles, where the alternative is always shrimp.

The biggest chicken state in America, and 61 steakhouses

Georgia leads the United States in broiler chicken production and does so by a wide margin. In the year ending December 2024 it produced 1.365 billion chickens, ahead of Alabama at 1.2 billion and Arkansas at just over 1 billion, and it topped the country by liveweight at 8.2 billion pounds. Measured on total poultry, if Georgia were its own country it would rank fourth in the world.

Cattle are not absent — roughly 1.1 million head across 42,000 farms, raised in all 159 counties, and beef and dairy together are the state’s second-largest commodity. But Georgia is not Texas, Nebraska or Kansas, and no one would guess from its farmland that it supports a steakhouse scene this deep.

The explanation is not agricultural. It is corporate. Metro Atlanta holds 16 Fortune 500 headquarters and is the third most concentrated Fortune 500 city in the country. The modern Atlanta steakhouse was built for that: an expense account, a private room, a wine list long enough to signal seriousness, and a table where the conversation matters more than the cooking.

Which is exactly what Bone’s has been since 1979. It is routinely described as the city’s power lunch, and the caricatures of Atlanta figures on its walls are not nostalgia — they are a guest list. The same logic built Chops on West Paces Ferry in 1989, and it is why Alpharetta, a suburb of about 70,000 people, carries six steakhouses: that is where the office parks went.

It is a useful reminder that steakhouse density tracks money and meetings far more reliably than it tracks cattle.

Savannah and the coast

Savannah plays by different rules — tourism rather than business. Toni Steakhouse is the serious one, Belford’s sits in a former wholesale grocery warehouse in the City Market, and Untitled is the newer arrival. Down the coast, 1509 covers Brunswick alongside Colt & Alison on St. Simons.

The suburbs and the small towns

North of the city, Alpharetta carries Cabernet, Cattle Shed, Connors and Lapeer on top of Oak. Duluth has Frankie’s and Uncle Jack’s Meat House; Sandy Springs has Kaiser’s Chophouse and Nowak’s. Acworth holds three, led by 1885 Grill. Elsewhere in the metro: Joey D’s Oak Room, Mac’s Chop House, Pampas, HW Steakhouse, Prime 120 and Parker’s on Ponce.

Outside the metro, the roster thins out to one good room per town: Porterhouse Grill in Athens, Chophouse on Broad in Rome, Chophouse on the Bricks in Thomasville, Bull and Barrel in Statesboro, J. Henry’s in Griffin, Cotton & Calf in Braselton, and Brothers at Willow Ranch up in the Blue Ridge at Young Harris.

The national chains

A Fortune 500 town draws every brand there is. Reliable, not local: Ruth’s Chris runs three locations in the state (Alpharetta, Kennesaw and Savannah), Stoney River three, plus Fleming’s, Morton’s, The Palm, STK and New York Prime.

Browse the state by city: Atlanta, Alpharetta, Savannah and Roswell.