After closing his restaurant in Austell in 2022, chef Mauro Cruz (the self-proclaimed “king of birria”) is back at the pop-up game serving up line-inducing birria tacos, bowls of birria ramen, and quesabirria. Don’t skip Cruz’s birria grilled cheese or pizza if either dish is on the pop-up menu. Follow this pop-up on Instagram to keep updated on its location and menu.

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).

This clubby sports bar and grill is all about its birria options. Order a gooey birria grilled cheese or a quesadilla stuffed with birria. People can also order birria tacos, bowls of birria ramen, sopes topped with birria, chilaquiles with birria, and a birria torta.

This new Mexican-soul food restaurant in southwest Atlanta, owned by Atlanta entertainment lawyer Karol Russell, features chicken, beef, shrimp, and salmon birria tacos, along with a rich and spicy take on birria ramen, which can also be made vegan with jackfruit.

Located next door to an automative shop, regulars to this tiny Mexican restaurant rave about the birria choices on the menu, which include goat, beef, chicken, and lamb. Order birria tacos, quesabirria, and even birria ramen and birria taquitos.

Owned and operated by Daniela Guevara, DMT pops up weekly at breweries and markets around Atlanta. Order everything from mulitas and tortas to tinga tostadas from this pop-up. But if it’s listed on the menu, order DMT’s birria and quesabirria tacos served with a side of consomme for dipping. Follow DMT on Instagram for menu updates and specials.

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.

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.

Located inside Plaza Fiesta, this food court stall offers a choice of either beef or goat birria tacos. And Carnitas Michoacan Mexican Food also sells its birria by the pound. Stop by on the weekends for hot bowls of pozole and menudo.

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.

Find Chicas Birria set up weekly in the parking lot at Sun Auto Services on Buford Highway in Doraville where it continuously serves up birria tacos and pizzas to people eagerly awaiting the food truck’s arrival there. Chicas Birria doesn’t skimp on the portion sizes. Tacos come loaded with well-seasoned chicken or beef birria and pizzas are stuffed to overflowing with flavorful stewed meat and cheese. Both come served with a side of consomme for dipping and a choice of sauces, ranging from mild to hot. There’s a mighty birria burrito on the menu, too. Post up outside the car to eat with a cold bottle of mango Jarritos. Chicas Birria is also at Allatoona Dam Food Truck Park and Beer Garden each week in Cartersville. Follow on Instagram for updates.

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.

Located inside Carniceria La Costa, Taqueria El Futuro serves up bowls of hot and spicy beef birria ramen daily as well as beef birria egg rolls stuffed with Oaxaca cheese and curtido (slaw) served with a smoked jalapeno mayo. If it’s listed on the menu, try the birria melt or the Oaxaquena, an open-face pizza taco topped with beef birria, Oaxaca cheese, pinto beans, salsa, and cilantro and onions. There’s no shortage of birria options on the menu here.