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Augusta

The Masters golf capital on the Savannah River. Where James Beard-nominated Southern cooking, Broad Street's revival, and Augusta National's shadow produce a dining scene more serious than most visitors expect.

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8Avg Food Score
7Avg Ambience Score

Best Restaurants in Augusta

Five essential tables, ranked by occasion.

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Frog Hollow Tavern Augusta
#1 in Augusta
Frog Hollow Tavern
Southern American$$$
Close a DealImpress Clients
The James Beard-nominated anchor of Augusta's culinary revival. Georgia farm sourcing and Southern technique in a city that finally has a restaurant worthy of its ambitions.
Food 9Ambience 8Value 7
1102 Kitchen & Bar Augusta
#2 in Augusta
1102 Kitchen & Bar
New American$$$
First DateBirthday
The Broad Street creative kitchen that Augusta didn't know it needed. New American cooking with Georgia sourcing and a cocktail program worth the visit.
Food 8Ambience 8Value 7
Rhinehart's Oyster Bar Augusta
#3 in Augusta
Rhinehart's Oyster Bar
Seafood / Southern$$
BirthdaySolo Dining
The Augusta oyster bar that the city has relied on for decades. Lowcountry oysters, shrimp, and the Savannah River area's marine bounty.
Food 7Ambience 7Value 8
Farmhaus Burger Augusta
#4 in Augusta
Farmhaus Burger
Burgers / American$
Solo DiningBirthday
The Georgia craft burger counter that Augusta's food community built. Local beef, honest prices, and the conviction that a great burger is its own category.
Food 8Ambience 6Value 9
Whiskey Bar Kitchen Augusta
#5 in Augusta
Whiskey Bar Kitchen
American / Whiskey Bar$$
BirthdaySolo Dining
Augusta's whiskey destination. The American whiskey program that the Masters crowd discovered and the locals claimed first.
Food 7Ambience 8Value 8
Frog Hollow Provisions Augusta
#6 in Augusta
Frog Hollow Provisions
Café / Deli / Southern$
Solo DiningFirst Date
The daytime companion to Augusta's finest evening kitchen. Frog Hollow's farm sourcing philosophy applied to the sandwich and the morning pastry.
Food 8Ambience 7Value 8

Augusta’s Top 5

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Frog Hollow Tavern

Frog Hollow Tavern earned James Beard attention by doing what the best Southern restaurants do: sourcing from Georgia farms with specificity, applying technique with discipline, and treating the region's culinary heritag...

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1102 Kitchen & Bar

1102 Kitchen & Bar has helped define what the Broad Street revival looks like as a dining experience. A kitchen that applies genuine creativity to Georgia ingredients in a room that communicates Augusta's ambitions with...

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Rhinehart's Oyster Bar

Rhinehart's has been Augusta's seafood institution for long enough to have established the city's oyster expectations. A bar that sources from the Georgia and South Carolina coasts and serves the lowcountry seafood trad...

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Farmhaus Burger

Farmhaus Burger applies Augusta's emerging farm-sourcing philosophy to the burger format. Georgia beef, locally baked buns, and the seasonal toppings that the region's farms provide in rotation. The result is a burger t...

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Whiskey Bar Kitchen

Whiskey Bar Kitchen fills the gap between Augusta's serious restaurants and its casual bars. A Broad Street operation with a serious American whiskey selection, reliable food, and the kind of social energy that the revi...

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Frog Hollow Provisions

Frog Hollow Provisions is the daytime operation from the Frog Hollow restaurant group. Bringing the same Georgia farm sourcing and culinary standards to the sandwich, the pastry, and the morning coffee that the flagship...

Dining in Augusta

Augusta is best known internationally for the Masters Tournament. The golf championship held each April at Augusta National that transforms the city into the center of the global sports world for one week. But Augusta's food scene has grown well beyond its golf identity. The Broad Street corridor, undergoing a genuine revival, has attracted serious restaurants with national attention. The James Beard nominations have followed.

The Broad Street Revival

Augusta's Broad Street. The city's historic commercial spine. Fell into decades of decline before a coordinated investment in restaurants, bars, and creative businesses began reversing that trajectory. Frog Hollow Tavern and 1102 Kitchen & Bar are the culinary anchors of a revival that has made Broad Street genuinely worth walking from end to end.

Georgia Farm Country

Augusta sits in the Georgia piedmont, surrounded by the farms that supply the coast's kitchens and the mountains' restaurants with produce of distinctive quality. Sea Island red peas, Vidalia onions, Georgia peaches, and heritage pork from the region's farms provide the best Augusta kitchens with ingredients that the James Beard nominations reflect.

Practical Notes

Augusta is served by Augusta Regional Airport with connections to Atlanta. Driving from Atlanta is 2.5 hours on I-20. Most dining is concentrated on Broad Street and in the surrounding downtown. Card payments are universal. Masters week (first full week of April) requires reservations made months in advance.

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