June was a frenetic month for the metro Atlanta restaurant scene, driven in part by a flurry of downtown openings timed to the beginning of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Soccer fans have already been filling seats at new businesses like El Tesoro, the Irish Exit, Glide Pizza and the immersive entertainment destination Cosm.
But there were plenty of openings elsewhere, like the uniquely global Alonetogether in Midtown and the secretive Bar Incognito, a cocktail bar from the owners of now-shuttered Palo Santo.
Other surprising restaurant closures included Mother’s Best, the fried chicken restaurant in Decatur which announced that multiple equipment failures made its business nonviable, as well as Nadair, the Scottish fine dining restaurant opened by chef Kevin Gillespie.
New restaurant openings
Alonetogether, an upscale restaurant from Houston chef Jonny Rhodes, opened in Midtown on June 3 with a menu rooted in Haitian French Creole cooking with Thai influences. Expect menu items like a seafood platter; Clara’s Kalalou Soup, a tribute to Rhodes’ mother; a 32-day dry-aged rib-eye au poivre; and bone marrow ice cream served with stewed cherries, thyme and sea salt. The bar will offer a selection of nonalcoholic drinks like passion fruit and blood orange elixir with soursop and tamarind and toasted peanut soda…