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Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told opened in July 2025 at 1104 Canton Street, in a narrow Canton-block storefront whose interior has been turned into a forty-cover dining room and a small intimate cocktail lounge designed around the central kitchen counter. Chef and partner Matt Marcus, a Roswell-area cook, an Atlanta-trained line veteran, and a working presence in consulting kitchens across the Southeast, built the restaurant around a single working idea: a hybrid seven-course prix-fixe menu in which the guest chooses three of the seven courses from a rotating à la carte board and Marcus and his team choose the other four. The result is a dinner that retains the agency of à la carte while delivering the architectural arc of a true tasting.
Table & Main
Table & Main opened in 2011 at 1028 Canton Street in a lovingly restored two-story Roswell homestead whose front porch, brick path, and side garden still read as a private residence from the sidewalk. The room, about ninety covers across an upstairs porch, a downstairs main dining hall, a selected bar, and a fifteen-seat side patio, was the project of chef Woody Back, a Georgia-raised cook trained through the kitchen of Atlanta's well-regarded Holeman & Finch crew, and it has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand on every recent Atlanta-region list. The mood is unhurried, Southern, and grown-up, the antithesis of the city's resort-themed steakhouses.
Little Alley Steak
Little Alley Steak opened on Canton Street in 2014 and has since spawned siblings in Buckhead and Alpharetta, but the original Roswell room remains the format's reference. The interior, a restored 1920s mercantile building set back from the sidewalk by a narrow brick alley, was rebuilt in the New York-butcher-shop tradition: pressed-tin ceilings, dark wainscoting, white tile, a long mahogany bar, and a back dining room arranged in deep banquettes that have been the working geometry of American closing dinners since the mid-twentieth century. The patio, about thirty seats on a covered side garden, is the warm-weather addition that pushed the restaurant onto the OpenTable Diners' Choice list four years running.
Osteria Mattone
Osteria Mattone opened in 2013 at 1095 Canton Street in a converted Canton-block storefront whose interior was rebuilt to look and feel like a Trastevere trattoria, exposed brick, warm hanging-bulb lighting, a long zinc-topped bar in front of an open wood-fired Neapolitan pizza oven, and a back dining room of about seventy covers arranged on bistro chairs and small marble-topped tables. The restaurant is the work of the same Roswell hospitality group that runs Table & Main two blocks south, and the design idea was simple: an Italian room that takes Rome seriously rather than the suburban red-sauce default.
1920 Tavern
1920 Tavern occupies a corner Canton Street property at 948 Canton, set back from the sidewalk by a slate-paved patio and a wood-and-iron canopy that signals the speakeasy concept before a guest crosses the threshold. The interior, about eighty covers across a main dining room, a long marble-topped bar, a small private dining space in the back, and a covered patio overlooking the Canton-block streetscape, was rebuilt in the 1920s tradition: walls lined with antique mirrors and small framed Prohibition-era prints, crystal-globe lighting, warm wood wainscoting, deep leather banquettes, and pressed-tin ceiling tiles. The room is the kind of design statement Roswell rarely makes in this register, and the bar program lives up to it.