With most of 2025 still ahead of us, it’s simply too difficult to gauge the average number of new restaurants expected to open around Atlanta this year. But we know of at least a few new restaurants hitting the dining scene in 2025, including eight hotly anticipated establishments opening over the next several months.

From wine bars from two James Beard award-winning chefs to Thai and Korean restaurants in Atlanta, Roswell, and Marietta, we’re looking forward to the following eight restaurants opening in 2025.

Madeira Park
Wine bar led by Chef Steven Satterfield
640 North Highland Avenue, Poncey-Highland
Anticipated Winter 2025

It’s been 15 years since Chef Steven Satterfield opened the award-winning Miller Union on Brady Avenue in Atlanta. But in 2025, Satterfield and Miller Union partner Neal McCarthy will open wine bar Madeira Park in the heart of Poncey-Highland. Taking over the former cafe space at the old Highland Inn (now Otto’s Apartment Hotel,) Satterfield and McCarthy partnered with Dive Wine pop-up founder and sommelier Tim Willard. Expect a vegetable-heavy menu as well as charcuterie and cheese plates and a few standalone protein dishes from Satterfield. The wine menu will feature by-the-glass and bottle options offering familiar favorites, boundary-pushing vintages, and hard-to-find wines catering to collectors. Look for a section dedicated to vermouth, sherry, port, and madeira, with cocktails using fortified wines as mixing ingredients or base spirits.

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Otto’s Apartment Hotel in Poncey-Highland will be home to two new restaurants in 2025. (Courtesy of Otto’s Apartment Hotel)

Wa’haka
Oaxacan and Tex-Mex dishes
4474 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody
Anticipated Winter 2025

Cesar Hernandez, a co-owner of critically acclaimed restaurant Oaxaca in Chamblee, will open Wa’haka in the former Takorea space at the Georgetown shopping center in Dunwoody. Expect the menu to lean into dishes from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, including tlyaudas and moles, along with Tex-Mex dishes of enchiladas, nachos, and fajitas. Look for the bar to serve variations on margaritas and other cocktails made with mezcal and tequila. 

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Fawn
Wine and amaro bar from Chef Terry Koval
119 East Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur
Anticipated Winter 2025

Decatur will gain another spot from The Deer and the Dove owner and James Beard award-winning chef Terry Koval this winter. He and beverage director Matt Watkins plan to open Fawn next door to Cafe Alsace. As a wine and amaro bar, Fawn will focus on wines from many volcanic regions from around the world, including the Canary Islands, Crete, Campania in Italy, and Verne in France. Amaro on the menu will come from a variety of countries and be served by the glass and in flights. As for food, expect house-made charcuterie with local cheeses, crudos, fresh breads, caviar, and desserts from Koval. 

(Courtesy of The Deer and The Dove)

Side Saddle Wine Saloon & Bar
Wine and tapas bar from owner of Finca to Filter
680 Hamilton Avenue, Boulevard Heights
Anticipated Winter/Spring 2025

The owner of Finca to Filter will open a location of the popular coffee shop and a new wine and tapas bar called Side Saddle later this year. Located along the Southside Beltline, the jewel box building will only seat 20 people and feature a horseshoe-shaped bar. Most of the wine menu will focus on natural and low-intervention wines, with a food menu featuring sharable small plates and raw bar selections. Until it opens, you can catch owner Kayla Bellman and her team popping up with Side Saddle Wine Bar at Finca to Filter in the Old Fourth Ward on Thursday nights.

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Spring 2nd Branch aka Bōm
Korean cuisine and hot pots from Chef Brian So
113 Church Street, Marietta
Anticipated Spring/Summer 2025

The long-awaited second restaurant from Chef Brian So opens later this year, just around the corner from his award-winning restaurant Spring in Marietta. Billed as a casual restaurant serving traditional Korean cuisine and hot pots, So and Spring partner Daniel Crawford will open Spring 2nd Branch aka Bōm in a redeveloped retail strip along Church Street, also home to Contrast Artisan Ales. At Bōm (“spring” or “springtime” in Korean,) So will serve simmering Korean hot pots, dolsot bibimbap, mandu (dumplings), and other dishes like tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes) and naengmyeon (cold noodles). Expect Cass Korean beer, soju, and wines by the glass, along with soju cocktails. 

(Courtesy of Spring 2nd Branch/Bom)

Tipsy Thaiger
All-day restaurant serving Thai cuisine
605 Atlanta Street, Roswell
Anticipated Spring/Summer

This pop-up will bring Thai food right to the heart of Roswell, and into one of the city’s most historic and storied buildings. Billed as an all-day Thai restaurant, Tipsy Thaiger takes over the old Public House space just off Roswell’s historic town square. Look for street food-style dishes inspired by family recipes served at lunch and dinner, along with cocktails, beer, and wine. For now, catch Tipsy Thaiger popping up at neighboring Proper Hop Taphouse and Variant Brewing in Roswell. 

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Elise
French/Italian cuisine from Chef Craig Richards
Woodruff Arts Center campus, Midtown
Anticipated Spring/Summer 2025

Chef Craig Richards, a co-owner of Italian restaurant Lyla Lila in Midtown, will open Elise just down the street at the Woodruff Arts Center this spring. The restaurant’s name nods to one of Beethoven’s most famous piano compositions: “Für Elise.” Taking over the former Table 1280 space across from the High Museum on the Woodruff Arts Center campus, Elise will feature a menu melding French and Italian dishes, including the hand-made pastas for which Richards has become known at Lyla Lila. Look for classic cocktails from the bar as well as a wine list focused on both Old World French and Italian wines.  

Mini marinated crab claws from Talat Market. (Photo by Beth McKibben)

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Some Luck
Thai street food restaurant and bar with a late-night menu from Talat Market chefs
644 North Highland Avenue, Poncey-Highland.
Anticipated early Summer 2025

Chefs Parnass Savang and Rod Lassiter, owners of Summerhill Thai restaurant Talat Market, plan to open Thai bar Some Luck this summer in Poncey-Highland. Taking over the Highland Ballroom Lounge space beneath the Highland Inn, just beyond Madeira Park, Some Luck will serve a decidedly Thai-focused menu featuring bar snacks, noodle soups, wings, and late-night food inspired by dishes found at street stalls throughout Thailand. Expect quick-fired, stirred cocktails mixed with Thai ingredients and base spirits like rum, pitchers of ice-cold Singha beer, and local beers on draft.

Beth McKibben serves as both Editor in Chief and Dining Editor for Rough Draft Atlanta. She was previously the editor of Eater Atlanta and has been covering food and drinks locally and nationally for over 14 years.