If you've ever stumped your server with a question regarding the menu, you probably weren't enjoying a meal at Woodfire Grill. In fact, there, the opposite is more likely. In-depth menu knowledge is a must for Woodfire's front-of-the-house staff, which is impressive considering the menu is subject to daily changes. Under the watchful eye of general manager Rick Blumberg, servers at Woodfire Grill are there when you need something and scarce when you don't. From the moment you walk in, and whether you're in the dining room or at the bar, you're always in someone's capable hands. And while you will most certainly leave Woodfire with a full stomach, don't be surprised if your appetite for culinary knowledge is satisfied, too. less...

Best Service BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Picked By » Readers
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Bacchanalia (Featured)

Best service BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Picked By » Critics
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Best waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Leon's Full Service (Featured)

Best waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Capozzi's New York Pizza - Roswell Road

And other metro Atlanta locations.

Runner-up: Leon's Full Service

131 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, 404-687-0500, www.leonsfullservice.com

Best waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Capozzi's New York Pizza - Roswell Road

And other metro Atlanta locations.

Runner-up: Leon's Full Service

131 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, 404-687-0500, www.leonsfullservice.com

Best waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Capozzi's New York Pizza - Roswell Road

And other metro Atlanta locations.

Runner-up: Leon's Full Service

131 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, 404-687-0500, www.leonsfullservice.com

Best service BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Picked By » Critics
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Miller Union (Featured)

Best waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

World Peace Cafe (Permanently Closed)

Runner-up
Leon's Full Service
131 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur, 404-687-0500, www.leonsfullservice.com

Best Best-Looking Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Picked By » Critics
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Nam (Permanently Closed)

Beauty and elegance congregate at NAM. This contemporary Vietnamese restaurant has a uniquely beautiful interior whose art celebrates the female form. The servers are immediate incarnations of that – gorgeous women in exotic garb who seem to drift through the dining room. The slender, mainly Asian staff may have you speechless, but don't fret – they're also helpful in describing menu items and, if asked, will give you their own (sometimes strong) opinions. We love women who aren't afraid to speak their minds – which are, we're sure, just as beautiful as their exteriors. less...

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Critics

The National

OK, we know THE NATIONAL is in Athens, and this is Best of Atlanta, but we love the waitstaff there so much we're asking that you bear with us. Led by Chris Luken, the National's servers manage to hit that perfect note of friendly service with formal underpinnings &#150; timing, knowledge and hospitality are all as good as it gets. To prove the point that personality is a major factor in good service, waiters wear street clothes instead of uniforms, reminding us that behind every great dining experience is a real person, not a drone we can order around. less...

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Brick Store Pub

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Critics

Quinones at Bacchanalia (Permanently Closed)

Led by maitre d&#146; Rob Payne, the staff at QUINONES sets the standard for service in the city. Gracious, warm, pitch-perfect without ever being stiff or too formal, and yet gracefully adept at the precise dance that truly top-level service requires. Eating here is a delightful education in charm.more...

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Real Chow Baby (Permanently Closed)

Best-Looking Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Picked By » Critics
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Apres Diem

At last, a reason for everyone to adopt a bisexual lifestyle &#151; dining at APRES DIEM. The only thing that would improve the appearance of both genders of servers here is complete nudity. While you await your food &#151; we recommend any of the daily specials or regular pastas &#151; you&#146;ll enjoy the taste of your fingernails, which you&#146;ll be chewing as you watch the beautiful, exotic servers, going from table to table, gossiping to everyone in their throaty accents about how hot but unattainable they find you. less...

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Critics

Quinones at Bacchanalia (Permanently Closed)

Best Looking Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Picked By » Readers
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures

Apres Diem

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Real Chow Baby (Permanently Closed)

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Einstein's

1077 Juniper St. 404-876-7925 www.einsteinsatlanta.com

Best Waitstaff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Critics

Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead (Permanently Closed)

The DINING ROOM AT THE RITZ-CARLTON BUCKHEAD may be searching the globe for a new powerhouse chef to helm its kitchen, but that&#146;s no reason to avoid a celebratory meal within its clubby cocoon. Maitre d&#146; Claude Guillaume and his near-clairvoyant staff haven&#146;t gone anywhere. Their professional virtuosity lets you ease into an evening of engaging conversation with tablemates. This year the staff acquired an additional ace up its sleeve: 24-year-old sommelier Chantelle Grilhot, who knows as much about tending to customers as she does about wine. (P.S. The transitional kitchen is in the more-than-capable hands of ex-Bacchanalia and Seeger&#146;s chef Daniel Porubiansky.) less...

Best Wait Staff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2000
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Readers

Mostly young and male, relatively perky and corporately trained, neatly dressed in aprons and clean shirts, they exude the kind of confidence that sells humongous portions of four-cheese ravioli, fried calamari, roasted peppers, chopped salad, swordfish steak and whole chickens with garlic and rosemary.more...

Best Wait Staff BOA Award Winner

Year » 2000
Type of Award » Oral Pleasures
Picked By » Critics

The Dining Room, Ritz-Carlton Buckhead

Under the direction of manager Peter Krehan, tuxedoed staffers move as if on greased wheels — explaining the fusion menu, pouring wine, announcing the arrival of dishes, setting down and removing plates, praising the food and, in general, acting as if enjoying every blissful minute. Their mood is infectious.more...

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