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Biscuits You Just Shouldn’t Skip in Atlanta

From biscuits infused with lavender or slathered in sausage gravy to biscuit sandwiches topped with bacon and pimento cheese or cheddar, black pepper, and chives baked in

by Eater Staff Updated Jan 14, 2022, 7:54am EST

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by Eater Staff Updated Jan 14, 2022, 7:54am EST

Biscuits are more than a breakfast or sidekick food in the South, biscuits are a way of life here. This Southern staple often comes with a recipe passed down through the family for generations, too. No two biscuits are alike, and everyone has their favorite, so it should come as no surprise that Atlanta has plenty of great options to choose from around town. From biscuits infused with lavender or slathered in sausage gravy to biscuit sandwiches topped with bacon and pimento cheese or cheddar, black pepper, and chives baked in, don’t skip the biscuits from these Atlanta restaurants and pop-ups.

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Stilesboro Biscuits

Buttery yet light biscuits abound at this roadside restaurant in Kennesaw. There are several biscuit sandwiches to choose from here, including a sausage, egg, and cheese and fried chicken. The place gets busy and the line can be long, especially on the weekends. These biscuits are worth the wait.

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3545 Stilesboro Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30152

Beaver Creek Biscuit Company and Barbecue

Biscuits and barbecue — what could be better than that combination in the South? Opening at 5 a.m. on weekdays, this tiny restaurant on Six Flags Road in Lithia Springs serves fluffy biscuits and biscuit sandwiches in the morning topped with everything from fried chicken and sausage links to bacon, egg, and cheese. Drive-thru service.

1451 Six Flags Rd, Lithia Springs, GA 30122

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The Red Eyed Mule

After relocating to South Marietta Parkway in 2019, the Red Eyed Mule and its biscuits are back online. Order a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit or a sausage and gravy biscuit. Waits can be long on the weekends. Open 7 a.m. on weekdays.

430 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta, GA 30060

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1911 Biscuits & Burgers

The folks behind Red Sky Tapas & Bar in Marietta opened this restaurant in 2020 serving biscuit sandwiches and other breakfast and lunch items throughout the day, including burgers, fried chicken sandwiches, and hot dogs. Biscuits sandwiches here can come with fried chicken, vegetarian sausage, country fried steak, or hot links. There’s steak or sausage and gravy biscuits, too.

3120 S Cobb Dr SE, Smyrna, GA 30080

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D Cafe and Catering

Part catering company, part cafe, D Cafe is a family-owned restaurant in Westview serving up homestyle breakfast, brunch, and lunch fare. In the mornings, the cozy cafe offers homemade biscuits with bacon or sausage topped with eggs, along with fish and grits during breakfast and lunch plates named for the Westside’s many historic neighborhoods.

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1550 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30310

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Star Provisions Market & Cafe

Star Provisions on the Westside offers breakfast until 11 a.m. most days, which includes two biscuit sandwiches: a towering, crispy fried chicken and a ginger sausage and folded egg topped with cheese sauce. Biscuits come with a breakfast side salad tossed in a light vinaigrette.

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1460 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

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Mt. Paran Country Store

Established in 1906, the Mount Paran Country Store includes just two standalone gas pumps, a convenience shop complete with a slush puppie machine, and a counter serving some of Atlanta’s best biscuits wrapped up and ready to go for breakfast in the morning. Despite now being surrounded by multi-million dollar homes in Buckhead, Mount Paran Country Store hasn’t lost its charm. Grab breakfast or lunch and take a seat on the benches or picnic tables outside. Keep an eye out for roaming neighborhood chickens.

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4480 Northside Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30327

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Silver Skillet

For old-school Southern biscuits, head over to the iconic Silver Skillet diner on 14th Street. Eat that biscuit naked with a little butter, jam, or honey or make it a sandwich. The diner offers several DIY biscuit sandwich options, including country ham, biscuits and gravy, and steak.

200 14th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

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Buttermilk Kitchen

A restaurant with buttermilk in its name has to have a killer biscuit, right? Buttermilk Kitchen does in fact have an amazing biscuit, and it’s given top billing on the breakfast menu. The chicken biscuit is topped with red pepper jelly and served alongside pimento cheese grits and house pickles.

4225 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30342

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Bennett's Market & Deli

This Grant Park corner market offers more than groceries and soups and sandwiches from its deli, including a New York-style pastrami and tuna melt, there’s also a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit served all day long.

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891 Cherokee Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30315

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Bomb Biscuit Atlanta

Celebrated baker Erika Council relocated her popular biscuit stall to the former Field Day space on Highland in 2022. Now a full-fledged restaurant, Bomb Biscuit Co. continues to offer Council’s fluffy buttermilk biscuit sandwiches, including her signature Glori-Fried chicken biscuit and breakfast standards like the BEC topped with American cheese. Not into biscuits? Order one of the scrumptious cinnamon rolls or trio of B’Onuts (deep-fried biscuit dough balls coated in cinnamon sugar) or a breakfast plate like hash and eggs or the bis-cake blue plate.

668 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30312

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Java Jive

Step back into the 1950s at this retro Virginia Highland diner. The restaurant claims to have the “best biscuit in Atlanta.” While that may be hyperbole, it’s a pretty darn good biscuit. The biscuit makes a great sidekick to any of Java Jive’s egg dishes. In keeping with the 1950s theme, the restaurant is cash only.

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790 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

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Victory C.C.

Victory Brands, the group behind Victory Sandwich Bar, rebranded its Dekalb Athletic Club coffee shop to Victory Coffee and Calamity in 2020. Located next door to the group’s throwback pizzeria and lounge called LLoyd’s, Victory CC serves coffee and coffee drinks from Avondale Estates-based Radio Roasters paired with “gas station” biscuits through the afternoon.

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900 DeKalb Ave NE suite f, Atlanta, GA 30307

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Home Grown

The Comfy Chicken biscuit at Reynoldstown restaurant Home Grown is one of Atlanta’s most iconic (and addictive) dishes. Home Grown almost always has a wait on the weekends, but it’s definitely worth it to indulge in the satisfyingly messy (and large) biscuit topped with fried chicken smothered in sausage gravy.

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968 Memorial Dr SE, Atlanta, GA 30316

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Sun in My Belly

The biscuits at Sun In My Belly are infused with lavender, which makes these biscuits slightly cake-like with hints of floral notes, but without being cloyingly sweet. Not into lavender? There’s always the buttermilk biscuit found in the restaurant’s pork belly Benedict.

2161 College Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30317

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Stilesboro Biscuits

3545 Stilesboro Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30152

Buttery yet light biscuits abound at this roadside restaurant in Kennesaw. There are several biscuit sandwiches to choose from here, including a sausage, egg, and cheese and fried chicken. The place gets busy and the line can be long, especially on the weekends. These biscuits are worth the wait.

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3545 Stilesboro Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30152

Beaver Creek Biscuit Company and Barbecue

1451 Six Flags Rd, Lithia Springs, GA 30122

Biscuits and barbecue — what could be better than that combination in the South? Opening at 5 a.m. on weekdays, this tiny restaurant on Six Flags Road in Lithia Springs serves fluffy biscuits and biscuit sandwiches in the morning topped with everything from fried chicken and sausage links to bacon, egg, and cheese. Drive-thru service.

1451 Six Flags Rd, Lithia Springs, GA 30122

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The Red Eyed Mule

430 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta, GA 30060

After relocating to South Marietta Parkway in 2019, the Red Eyed Mule and its biscuits are back online. Order a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit or a sausage and gravy biscuit. Waits can be long on the weekends. Open 7 a.m. on weekdays.

430 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta, GA 30060

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1911 Biscuits & Burgers

3120 S Cobb Dr SE, Smyrna, GA 30080

The folks behind Red Sky Tapas & Bar in Marietta opened this restaurant in 2020 serving biscuit sandwiches and other breakfast and lunch items throughout the day, including burgers, fried chicken sandwiches, and hot dogs. Biscuits sandwiches here can come with fried chicken, vegetarian sausage, country fried steak, or hot links. There’s steak or sausage and gravy biscuits, too.

3120 S Cobb Dr SE, Smyrna, GA 30080

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D Cafe and Catering

1550 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30310

Part catering company, part cafe, D Cafe is a family-owned restaurant in Westview serving up homestyle breakfast, brunch, and lunch fare. In the mornings, the cozy cafe offers homemade biscuits with bacon or sausage topped with eggs, along with fish and grits during breakfast and lunch plates named for the Westside’s many historic neighborhoods.

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1550 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30310

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Star Provisions Market & Cafe

1460 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Star Provisions on the Westside offers breakfast until 11 a.m. most days, which includes two biscuit sandwiches: a towering, crispy fried chicken and a ginger sausage and folded egg topped with cheese sauce. Biscuits come with a breakfast side salad tossed in a light vinaigrette.

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1460 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

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Mt. Paran Country Store

4480 Northside Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30327

Established in 1906, the Mount Paran Country Store includes just two standalone gas pumps, a convenience shop complete with a slush puppie machine, and a counter serving some of Atlanta’s best biscuits wrapped up and ready to go for breakfast in the morning. Despite now being surrounded by multi-million dollar homes in Buckhead, Mount Paran Country Store hasn’t lost its charm. Grab breakfast or lunch and take a seat on the benches or picnic tables outside. Keep an eye out for roaming neighborhood chickens.

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4480 Northside Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30327

Silver Skillet

200 14th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

For old-school Southern biscuits, head over to the iconic Silver Skillet diner on 14th Street. Eat that biscuit naked with a little butter, jam, or honey or make it a sandwich. The diner offers several DIY biscuit sandwich options, including country ham, biscuits and gravy, and steak.

200 14th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Visit Website

Buttermilk Kitchen

4225 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30342

A restaurant with buttermilk in its name has to have a killer biscuit, right? Buttermilk Kitchen does in fact have an amazing biscuit, and it’s given top billing on the breakfast menu. The chicken biscuit is topped with red pepper jelly and served alongside pimento cheese grits and house pickles.

4225 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30342

Visit Website

Bennett's Market & Deli

891 Cherokee Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30315

This Grant Park corner market offers more than groceries and soups and sandwiches from its deli, including a New York-style pastrami and tuna melt, there’s also a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit served all day long.

Open in Google Maps

891 Cherokee Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30315

Visit Website

Bomb Biscuit Atlanta

668 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30312

Celebrated baker Erika Council relocated her popular biscuit stall to the former Field Day space on Highland in 2022. Now a full-fledged restaurant, Bomb Biscuit Co. continues to offer Council’s fluffy buttermilk biscuit sandwiches, including her signature Glori-Fried chicken biscuit and breakfast standards like the BEC topped with American cheese. Not into biscuits? Order one of the scrumptious cinnamon rolls or trio of B’Onuts (deep-fried biscuit dough balls coated in cinnamon sugar) or a breakfast plate like hash and eggs or the bis-cake blue plate.

668 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30312

Visit Website

Java Jive

790 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

Step back into the 1950s at this retro Virginia Highland diner. The restaurant claims to have the “best biscuit in Atlanta.” While that may be hyperbole, it’s a pretty darn good biscuit. The biscuit makes a great sidekick to any of Java Jive’s egg dishes. In keeping with the 1950s theme, the restaurant is cash only.

Open in Google Maps

790 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

Visit Website

Victory C.C.

900 DeKalb Ave NE suite f, Atlanta, GA 30307

Victory Brands, the group behind Victory Sandwich Bar, rebranded its Dekalb Athletic Club coffee shop to Victory Coffee and Calamity in 2020. Located next door to the group’s throwback pizzeria and lounge called LLoyd’s, Victory CC serves coffee and coffee drinks from Avondale Estates-based Radio Roasters paired with “gas station” biscuits through the afternoon.

Open in Google Maps

900 DeKalb Ave NE suite f, Atlanta, GA 30307

Visit Website

Home Grown

968 Memorial Dr SE, Atlanta, GA 30316

The Comfy Chicken biscuit at Reynoldstown restaurant Home Grown is one of Atlanta’s most iconic (and addictive) dishes. Home Grown almost always has a wait on the weekends, but it’s definitely worth it to indulge in the satisfyingly messy (and large) biscuit topped with fried chicken smothered in sausage gravy.

Open in Google Maps

968 Memorial Dr SE, Atlanta, GA 30316

Visit Website

Sun in My Belly

2161 College Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30317

The biscuits at Sun In My Belly are infused with lavender, which makes these biscuits slightly cake-like with hints of floral notes, but without being cloyingly sweet. Not into lavender? There’s always the buttermilk biscuit found in the restaurant’s pork belly Benedict.

2161 College Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30317

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