So. Fox in Virginia-Highland is Atlanta's one new Michelin star for 2026. Uberto in Gay also got a star, and Summerland won a Bib Gourmand. The Georgia list.
So. Fox, a wine-focused restaurant in Virginia-Highland, has earned a Michelin star. It is the only new star in Atlanta in the 2026 Michelin Guide American South, which the guide revealed this week at The Pinnacle in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, according to Michelin North America’s announcement.
A second Georgia restaurant, Uberto in the small town of Gay, also received a star. Michelin said Uberto is about an hour from Atlanta. The two additions bring Georgia to 10 one-star restaurants, eight of them inside the city of Atlanta.
Every Atlanta restaurant that held a star in 2025 kept it. No restaurant in the region was given a second or third star this year; Emeril’s in New Orleans remains the only two-star restaurant in the American South guide.
The six new Georgia distinctions
Michelin’s 2026 tables mark six Georgia restaurants as new to the guide or to a higher tier:
| Restaurant | Distinction | Address |
|---|---|---|
| So. Fox | One Michelin Star | 1017 N. Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta |
| Uberto Restaurant | One Michelin Star | 2 Jimmy Clark Road, Gay |
| Summerland | Bib Gourmand | 1385 Collier Road, Atlanta |
| Tipsy Thaiger | Bib Gourmand | 605 Atlanta St., Roswell |
| Pink Lotus | Recommended | 976 Brady Ave. NW, Suite 110, Atlanta |
| Spring 2nd Branch | Recommended | 113 Church St., Marietta |
A Bib Gourmand is Michelin’s label for good food at a moderate price. “Recommended” restaurants are in the guide without a star or Bib.
Tipsy Thaiger is in Roswell, about 20 miles north of downtown. Spring 2nd Branch is in Marietta, about 17 miles northwest, which is also home to the starred Spring.
About So. Fox
Chef Myles Moody and sommelier Rachael Pack run So. Fox, Michelin said. The name refers to the Southern Fox, a muscadine grape, and wine is central to the restaurant.
The guide’s inspectors describe a seasonal tasting menu with Southern-leaning cooking. They singled out corn dumplings with lump crab as “beautifully fragrant, original and flawlessly executed.” The guide lists So. Fox as contemporary American at its $$$ price level.
About Uberto
Uberto is part of the World of Quercus resort, where chef Ryan Smith serves a farm-focused tasting menu, Michelin said. It is open Friday and Saturday evenings, and hotel guests can book additional meals.
Michelin also picked Smith as one of two chefs featured in Mindful Voices, a program it started this year for chefs and hoteliers changing how their industries work. The guide said Uberto grows more than 90% of its produce on its own regenerative farm, which runs entirely on solar power and uses no chemical pesticides or herbicides.
Georgia’s 10 starred restaurants
Michelin’s 2026 starred list for Georgia:
- Atlas, 88 W. Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta
- Bacchanalia, 1460 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd., Atlanta
- Hayakawa, 1055 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta
- Lazy Betty, 999 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta
- Mujō, 691 14th St. NW, Atlanta
- O by Brush, 3009 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta
- Omakase Table, 3330 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta
- So. Fox, 1017 N. Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta (new)
- Spring, 36 Mill St., Marietta
- Uberto Restaurant, 2 Jimmy Clark Road, Gay (new)
All eight that carried stars into the region’s first American South guide in November 2025 are still on the list.
The region in numbers
The 2026 American South selection covers 265 restaurants serving 44 types of cuisine, Michelin said. That includes:
- one two-star restaurant
- 21 one-star restaurants, three of them new (So. Fox, Uberto and Dakar NOLA in New Orleans)
- 59 Bib Gourmands, 14 of them new
- 184 Recommended restaurants, 31 of them new
“The MICHELIN Guide continues to reveal the remarkable talent and diversity of the region’s culinary landscape,” said Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guide, in the announcement.
Other Atlanta-area restaurants in the guide
Bib Gourmands already in the guide and kept for 2026 include Antico Pizza Napoletana, Bomb Biscuit Co., Estrellita, Fishmonger, Fred’s Meat & Bread, Heirloom Market BBQ, Little Bear, The Busy Bee and Whoopsie’s in Atlanta, and Arepa Mia in Avondale Estates, about nine miles east. The full list is on Michelin’s American South restaurant page.
What it means for you
- Booking: check So. Fox’s and Uberto’s own websites for reservations.
- Uberto is a trip: it is about an hour away by car, Michelin said, and open Friday and Saturday evenings.
- Moderate prices: the Bib Gourmand list is the guide’s pick of good food at moderate prices. Summerland on Collier Road is the new Atlanta entry.
- More places to try: our guide to where to eat in Atlanta sorts the city’s restaurants by category, and our Virginia-Highland neighborhood page covers the area around So. Fox.
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