Gastropub Chef Smokeys ATL, owned by chef Mauro Cruz and Carlos Bickers, opened on Veterans Memorial Highway in Austell in 2021. Like the pop-up, Chef Smokeys the restaurant serves Cruz’s signature beef and chicken birria, birria tacos, and birria nachos on the menu, along with pizza, burgers, and wings from Bickers’ former restaurants B3 Bar and Isabella’s Pizza. In addition to birria tacos and nachos, the menu also includes a birria burger, birria pizza, and fries topped with birria meat as well as appetizers like jalapeño poppers and garlic knots. Open for takeout.

People drive to and then stand in line for the birria tacos here. Slowed-cooked and stewed, tacos come stuffed with beef, goat, chicken, or jackfruit birra at this counter-service spot. Make sure to order a side of consomme for dipping the tacos and an aguas frescas. Try the crunchy taco dorados and vampiros (tostadas filled with a choice of meat, cheese, and guacamole) here, too. Takeout available.

With locations in Smyrna and Kennesaw, this counter-service Mexican restaurant offers birria tacos, quesabirria tacos, and even pizzabirria on the menu. The latter is a pure, cheesy indulgence. All come with a side of consomme. Lines get long here at lunch, so grab a horchata and sit outside while waiting for the order. Takeout available.

Chicago native Chasity Hill is serving up her signature “wet tacos” infused with the flavors of Puerto Rico out of Corner Store Grocery on Metropolitan Parkway. She hopes to get her Latin-Soul Food truck rolling one day. For now, people can find Hill slinging her popular birra tacos and nacho fries Tuesday through Saturday here. Follow on Instagram for menu and hours updates.

Chef Mimmo Alboumeh, the former owner of Red Pepper Taqueria, opened Botica in the former Watershed space. The chef melds some of the more savory dishes he created for the menu at Red Pepper Taqueria with flavors and ingredients in dishes reminiscent of those he grew up eating while living in Lebanon, Italy, and Spain. Look for a wide selection of tacos on the menu here, including lamb birria braised and smoked on a Big Green Egg. Outdoor seating available. 

This Creole-Mexican street taco food truck, founded by Michaela Merrick, first launched out of the Triton Yards food truck park in Capitol View in 2020 serving beef birria tacos, street tacos stuffed with oxtails, chicken, or shrimp, dessert tacos, and vegan options on the menu. Merrick’s successful taco truck is now a restaurant stall inside Politan Row food hall in Midtown. Takeout available.

Looking for birria south of town? Eater readers say this is the spot. Purchase birria by the taco, burrito, quesadilla, or the plate here with a choice of beef or chicken. Make sure to order a side of consomme. Try the birria ramen here, too. Takeout available.

Typically run as a Thursday special, make sure to order the birria tacos when listed on the menu at this Edgewood neighborhood Mexican joint. Made with beef and served with a side of consomme, there’s also the option to occasionally order birria ramen during the colder months here, too. Outdoor seating available. Order online for takeout.

Located next to a Shell gas station on Buford Highway in Brookhaven, this counter-service taqueria serves a halal menu of Mexican-American comfort foods, including beef and chicken birria tacos, tamales, wings and fries, tortas, and burgers and cheesesteaks. Weekend specials. Call to order takeout.

Located in the same complex at the Little Farmhouse Cafe, order tacos filled with everything from lemon pepper wet chicken and Korean barbecue to Hawaiian chicken and vegan beef. Folks craving birria have come to right place, as this restaurant and food truck serves beef birria in tacos or as a topping for nachos and fries as well as jerk birria and chicken birria. Order online for takeout.

Based out of commercial kitchen Prep in Doraville, this California-inspired taco truck rolls throughout Atlanta serving quesabirria tacos and birria ramen on its menu, all day, every day it’s on the road. Follow on Instagram for the latest location and menu updates.

Located in Lilburn, Frida’s Taqueria offers everything from gorditas and tacos to empanadas and flautus on the menu. For those looking for birria, the restaurant serves both a birria quesadilla and three birria taco plate. Both come served with a side of consomme for dipping. Order online for takeout.

With locations in Lilburn and Conyers, this restaurant serves a variety of street tacos, tortas, breakfast and dinner platters, and small bites, including huaraches, pambazos, and gorditas. Order quesabirria here, which comes served as three tacos with consomme for dipping, or a hot bowl of birria ramen on cold days. Order online for takeout.