If you asked me to name Atlanta’s favorite protein, two meats would come to mind: pork, because we’re in the middle of the Southern barbecue belt; and chicken, because Georgia produces more broilers than any other state—and because a certain restaurant brand here claims to have invented the chicken sandwich.
I probably wouldn’t say beef. But I should.
In the 30 years since the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta has quietly become one of America’s best cities for steakhouses. By my count, there were about 50 steakhouses in metro Atlanta when Muhammad Ali lit the flame. There are more than twice that many now; my unscientific list reached a hundred and kept growing as I found ones I’d never heard of…