The MICHELIN Guide American South named its 2026 selection on October 21. Atlanta came away with eight One Star restaurants, and three of them have Buckhead addresses: Atlas at The St. Regis Atlanta, O by Brush in Buckhead Village, and Omakase Table at Buckhead Landing. Buckhead also has three Recommended restaurants. It has no Bib Gourmand at all.
So the guide's picture of Buckhead has a top tier and an everyday tier with nothing between them. The year's two most talked-about local openings come from groups the guide already recognizes. To use this list well on a weeknight, you need to know which tier a table sits in and how each one takes reservations.
Three of Eight, and Two Are Counters
The MICHELIN list for Atlanta has eight One Star restaurants: Atlas, Bacchanalia, Hayakawa, Lazy Betty, Mujō, O by Brush, Omakase Table and the newly starred So. Fox. Atlanta Magazine's results coverage noted that every Georgia restaurant starred in 2025 kept its star this year. Buckhead's three stars are repeat awards, not new ones.
Two of the three are Japanese counters, and their formats look much alike.
O by Brush is the omakase side of Brush Sushi at 3009 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 140, in Buckhead Village. Chef Jason Liang leads the team, with pastry chef ChingYao Wang and business partner John Chen. Brush moved to Buckhead from Decatur in August 2023, Eater Atlanta reported. The O by Brush signature menu is 20 courses for $285 per guest before tax and gratuity. Beverage pairings run $155 and $295. Seatings are at 6 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and at 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Sunday, and reservations are required.
Omakase Table is at 3330 Piedmont Road NE, #22A, in Buckhead Landing, with Executive Chef Leonard Yu running a daily seasonal tasting. The restaurant's Buckhead page lists 20 courses at $295 per person. Booking is through Resy, where a 20% gratuity is added to every party's bill. Omakase Table also runs a second location at 788 West Marietta Street NW. That one is a 14-seat counter serving 14 courses at a listed $195, and the starred listing is not that one; it is the Piedmont Road room.
Atlas is the outlier of the three. It sits inside The St. Regis Atlanta at 88 West Paces Ferry Road NW, with Freddy Money as executive chef. Atlas serves both à la carte and a tasting menu. The chef's tasting is currently listed at $325 per person. The dining room hangs a rotating collection of 20th-century art curated with Carousel Fine Art Galleries. On its own site, Atlas notes that it kept its star for 2026 and earned a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star award this year. Per its MICHELIN listing, it is closed Sunday and Monday.
The three menus land within about $40 of each other at the top end. Atlas is the only one where you can order a single plate rather than commit to a full progression.
The Rung Buckhead Doesn't Have
The Bib Gourmand is the guide's award for very good food at a moderate price, and it is the tier most people actually use on a Tuesday. Atlanta's Bib list includes Antico Pizza Napoletana on Hemphill Avenue, Fred's Meat & Bread at Krog Street, Fishmonger on North Highland and Heirloom Market BBQ on Akers Mill Road. The two new Georgia Bibs went to Summerland, which Anne Quatrano opened in July at 1385 Collier Road NW, and to Tipsy Thaiger in Roswell. None of the Bib Gourmands has a Buckhead address.
In Buckhead, the moderately priced role falls to the Recommended tier, and its three Recommended restaurants are much more casual than its stars.
Where the Everyday Tier Sits
Storico Fresco and The Chastain both serve during the day, which none of the starred rooms do.
- Storico Fresco Alimentari, 3167 Peachtree Road NE. Y Hospitality calls Storico the group's "matriarch." It is a fresh-pasta restaurant founded in 2016, with an attached alimentari selling house sauces, pastas and imported provisions. MICHELIN's inspectors describe sandwiches at lunch, secondi added at dinner and sidewalk seating, and rate it $$. It opens at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed Sunday. It takes reservations and also keeps tables for walk-ins.
- The Chastain, 4320 Powers Ferry Road NW. Executive chef Christopher Grossman and executive pastry chef Christian Castillo run a farm-to-table kitchen with several services in one building. The café opens at 7 a.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. on weekends. Lunch runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays, and brunch runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends. MICHELIN points to the onsite garden and rates dinner $$$$. A Garden Tasting Menu changes with the harvest. The team is also developing Alere, a separate concept planned for Morningside Village in 2027, What Now Atlanta reported.
- Tomo, 3630 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 140. Tomo's current menu is mostly à la carte, with sushi, rolls and entrées, plus a limited tableside omakase. Its posted hours and its lunch service differ from one listing to the next, so check the restaurant's own page before going for a midday meal.
The Chastain is the only one of Buckhead's six MICHELIN-listed restaurants that serves coffee before 8 a.m. Storico is the one where you can walk in at lunch with no booking and leave with a bag of pasta.
Across the Street From Atlas
The year's two most visible Buckhead openings both come from groups already in the guide.
Koshu Club opened April 14 at 99 West Paces Ferry Road, across from The St. Regis. It belongs to Castellucci Hospitality Group, which also runs Cooks & Soldiers, The Iberian Pig and Mujō. Its executive chef, J. Trent Harris, is the chef MICHELIN lists for Mujō, which kept its star this year. Keith Miller is chef de cuisine.
The room has 46 seats, and Koshu is not an omakase. Rough Draft Atlanta called it a "micro steakhouse" menu that diners build themselves, and Atlanta Magazine described a short menu built around three courses. On a menu updated October 9, small plates run about $19 to $29 and steak cuts run from $85 to $187. The AJC's review by Henri Hollis called it luxurious and craft-driven: Japanese-inspired rather than strictly Japanese, centered on steak without being a conventional steakhouse. Koshu opens at 5 p.m. every evening.
On West Paces Ferry, that puts a starred tasting room and an à la carte room from a starred chef across the street from each other.
Y Bar e Ristorante opened in July at 3065 Peachtree Road NE, in the former Storico Vino and Pachengo spaces. It belongs to Y Hospitality, the same group as Storico Fresco. The AJC reported that its 1960s Italian concept draws on owner Stephen Peterson's childhood in Rimini. The menu is family-recipe Italian bar snacks and aperitivo cocktails, and Y Bar sits a short stretch down Peachtree from Storico's 3167 address.
Neither opening holds a MICHELIN distinction. Both come from operators the guide already recognizes, one at the starred level and one at the Recommended level.
Getting a Seat in November
Each tier books differently, and the starred rooms need the most planning.
- Bluefin Tuna Cutting & Tasting at Brush, Wednesday, November 11, 6 to 9 p.m. This is an eight-course dinner built around bluefin tuna, at $315 per person, prepaid. Seating is limited, and booking is through Brush's OpenTable experience page.
- O by Brush on a regular night. Reservations are required. If an early dinner suits you, the 6 p.m. Wednesday-through-Saturday seating and the 5:30 p.m. Sunday seating are the options.
- Omakase Table. Book through Resy, as linked from the MICHELIN listing, and plan for the 20% gratuity on top of the per-person price.
- Koshu Club. Koshu Club's reservation page releases tables on a 90-day rolling basis at 10 a.m. If you want a table in early February, the booking window opens in early November.
- Storico Fresco and The Chastain café. These are the two MICHELIN-listed spots in Buckhead where walking in is realistic, Storico at lunch and The Chastain café in the morning.
In practice, a November week in Buckhead could include a weekday coffee at The Chastain, a Saturday lunch at Storico, an aperitivo at Y Bar and one booked counter dinner on Peachtree or Piedmont. That covers the whole local list in one week, from the 7 a.m. café to the 20-course counter.
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