Say goodbye to the brunch buffet at Rays on the River, and hello to an all-new a la carte brunch menu. It includes oysters on the half shell, jumbo shrimp cocktail, a lump crab omelette, and a take on steak and eggs complete with a 40-ounce prime tomahawk steak, sunny eggs, roasted tomatoes, grits, and steak fries. There’s also challah French toast and smoked brisket hash. Brunch is only served on Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Ray’s river location. Folks seeking Ray’s popular brunch buffet can find it at the Alpharetta location. Reservations encouraged.

Backed by Lazy Betty chefs Ron Hsu and Aaron Phillips, Humble Pie joins a collection of new restaurants now open at the Interlock on Howell Mill Road. An open and airy restaurant filled with natural light and multiple seating areas, including an upstairs mezzanine and patios with indoor/outdoor bars, expect wood-fired pizzas such as a classic margherita, a clam pie, or broccoli and cheddar on wheat and sourdough crusts served during lunch and dinner. The restaurant is now open for Sunday brunch, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m, serving dishes like breakfast calzones stuffed with bacon, pepperoni, mozzarella, cheddar, and scrambled eggs, a BEC pizza, and a chicken biscuit topped with Chinese chili crisp. Reservations encouraged.

Chef Virgil Harper opened Toast on Lenox in Buckhead in 2021, and it’s dedicated to all-day brunching. A second location is now open in Home Park, having taken over the former Moe’s Original Bar-B-Que space on 14th Street. People can still expect Harper’s signature riffs on brunch in Home Park, including the Cajun seafood dip with a roasted garlic baguette, Mississippi fried catfish and grits, salmon croquettes, and sides of pimento cheese grits and honey butter biscuits.

Skillets of seafood paella, colorful ceviches, and salsa dancing aren’t the only things served at AltaToro in Midtown these days. The high-energy tapas restaurant now offers weekend brunch, starting at 11 a.m. Look for dishes like churro chicken and waffles, mezcal-cured salmon tostadas, and the Toro breakfast burrito stuffed with pork sausage, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, eggs, and mole negro avocado crema fresca.

The restaurant at the elegant and historic Georgian Terrace hotel is back open and serving brunch on the weekends near the Fox Theatre. Look for fried green tomatoes topped with pimento cheese and bacon, wedges of spinach and mushroom quiche, and shrimp and grits with tasso ham and Creole gravy paired with brunch cocktails and sangria. How about an order of the towering coconut cream pie French toast paired with a bloody mary? Reservations highly encouraged, especially before matinees at the Fox.

Brunch and bottomless mimosas are served every day the restaurant is open, starting at 11:30 a.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. on weekends. Led in the kitchen by chef Nelly Terraza, expect dishes like empanadas stuffed with steak and Oaxaca cheese, steak and eggs topped with chimichurri, huevos divorciados, and shrimp and grits served with crispy polenta during brunch. The restaurant transitions to dinner and cocktails in the late afternoon.

Backed by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, the newest restaurant addition to Edgewood Avenue now offers weekend brunch, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Expect cornbread and biscuits topped with dirty gravy, shrimp and grits, and Samuelsson’s popular everything wings, along with other brunch dishes like a crab benedict, French toast, and shakshuka.

The Lunar New Year in 2023 marked the kickoff of a brand new, all-day brunch at this Cabbagetown restaurant. Weekends at JenChan’s now feature Yum Cha brunch with dumplings galore, short rib egg rolls, egg and cheese bao buns, and lion’s mane poutine, along with miso five-spice doughnuts, buttermilk biscuit sandwiches, and soy sauce deviled eggs. Order oolong tea service or a bloody mary and tuck into this brunch.

Chef Shaun Doty’s Bavarian-style beer hall on Ponce now features an equally Bavarian take on Southern brunch fare. Expect dishes during weekend brunch at the Wurst Beer Hall like biscuit and gravy with an egg and schnitzel tenders or the breakfast skillet with home fries, peppers and onions, kielbasa, and schnitzel tenders drizzled with aged gouda cheese sauce and topped with a fried egg. Order mimosas by the glass or carafe.

Sunday brunch is now served at Foundation Social Eatery, the recently relocated restaurant from chef Mel Toledo in the heart of downtown Alpharetta. Keep it light with a little gem salad and burrata toast. Or indulge in dishes like French toast bread pudding, Calabrian pork sausage poutine, and a croque madame. Order a bloody mary or espresso martini, or keep it classic with a Corpse Reviver. Reservations highly encouraged.