The Best Restaurants in Atlanta, Texas

The highest rated restaurant in Atlanta on every platform we checked, and not narrowly. Yelp, Tripadvisor and MenuPix all put it between 4.6 and 4.7, which is unusual agreement for a small town restaurant where the aggregators normally contradict each other. Its own page describes it as serving barbecue since 1994. Reviewers consistently name the brisket, the ribs, the fried chicken and the coconut pie.

It is first because it is the one place here where the quality and the consensus point the same direction. The catch is the clock. This is a lunch operation that closes at three, five days a week, so it cannot be a dinner plan. One outlying listing publishes a 7am to 2.30pm Tuesday to Saturday schedule, which contradicts the restaurant's own page, so go with Wednesday to Sunday and call if you are driving far.

A burger counter in a downtown building on East Hiram, and the only restaurant in Atlanta that appears on both the city tourism office's list and the Cass County chamber directory under a name people actually use for it. Burgers, sandwiches and wraps are the whole idea. Reviewers keep returning to the mushroom Swiss burger, the patty melt and the sweet potato fries.

Second because it is the best thing in Atlanta you can get at six in the evening on a weekday, which Tommy's and Rickey's cannot offer. Prices in older listings run around eight to nine dollars for a burger combo, though those are a few years old now and we would not hold the restaurant to them.

A three day a week rib operation on West Main, and the second real barbecue house in a town of about 6,000 people, which tells you something about Cass County. Its own site and the Atlanta tourism office both give the West Main address and the (903) 799-7475 number, and the Thursday to Saturday schedule is the one point every listing agrees on.

Be careful with directory listings for this one. Several put Rickey's at 706 Loop 59 with a different phone number, which looks like an old address that never got cleaned up. The business's own site says West Main, so go there. A Tripadvisor reviewer puts it plainly, that they say they are open Thursday to Saturday and you should call first.

On the city tourism list, in the Cass County chamber directory, and with a schedule its own site, Apple Maps and the aggregators all state the same way, which makes it the best verified set of hours of any restaurant in Atlanta. A Tripadvisor reviewer calls it their go to spot in Atlanta for Mexican food, and it is the one Mexican restaurant in town whose location we could pin without contradiction.

Fourth because it is the most dependable restaurant on this list rather than the most exciting. Seven days a week, 11am to 9pm on six of them, downtown on East Main. When the two barbecue houses are shut and it is Tuesday evening, this is where you go.

The only Italian restaurant in town, on the Atlanta tourism office's list, with the kind of menu a small town Italian place has. Reviewers point at the spaghetti and meatballs with the works and the house salad. It is bring your own bottle, which several reviewers list as the reason they picked it for a group.

We are ranking it fifth and being honest about why. The ratings split harder here than anywhere else in Atlanta. Restaurant Guru and Birdeye both sit around 4.5 to 4.6 across several hundred reviews, while Yelp sits at 3.6 across 30. That is a real disagreement rather than a rounding difference, so go in expecting a competent small town Italian dinner and not more than that.

The longest hours in Atlanta and the lowest prices, which are the two things that matter at eight on a Sunday evening when everything else on this list is closed. The online ordering menu is live and priced, which is the clearest possible evidence a small town restaurant is actually operating. A cheeseburger runs $6.89, a patty melt $6.35, a chili burger $8.09 and a chili cheeseburger $8.59.

A Roadtrippers reviewer calls the burgers the best in town, which we would put behind The Rabbit Patch, but the point stands that this is a real burger and not a holding pen. Online orders are pickup only. Two phone numbers circulate, and (903) 796-2871 is the one the tourism office, Yellow Pages and Yelp all carry.

Twenty four varieties of Blue Bell, a full espresso menu, and freshly baked cookies, cake pops, chocolate dipped treats and pudding cups. It is the only place in Atlanta serving coffee at six in the morning and the only place serving anything at eight in the evening on a Thursday, which makes it the two ends of the day that no restaurant here covers.

It is listed by the Atlanta Downtown Merchants Association, which is a local trade body rather than a directory, and that listing plus Yelp agree on the unusual schedule. Closed Wednesday and Sunday is the part people get caught by.

A counter service spot on the highway doing loaded baked potatoes, with dine in, takeaway, a drive through and delivery. Several current listings carry it as Potato Patch Eden Bubble Tea, so a bubble tea menu has been added at some point, which is not a combination you expect in Cass County and is probably the most interesting thing happening on US-59.

Last on the list for a specific reason. Two sources give phone numbers one digit apart, (903) 650-0090 on the city tourism office's own page and 903-650-0990 on a menu aggregator, and we will not print a number we cannot settle. The address is consistent everywhere, so navigate to 797 US-59 and read the door.