Georgia's Best Whiskey Challenge!
March 21 — 23, 2025
part of
The Georgia Food + Wine Festival 2025 presented by Georgia Grown
Bartenders and Mixologists share a photo and description of your best whiskey cocktail for your chance to win a cash prize ($1,500), added prestige for you and your place of business (restaurant, bar, lounge, hotel) plus a Golden Ticket to compete in the World Food Championship Mixology Challenge Competition!
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY!
Contact Andrew Cylar @ 404-630-2741 for details
The Best Whiskey Challenge 2025 Contestants!
Here are the participating businesses in Georgia's Best Whiskey Challenge 2025!
Atkins Park Tavern - Virginia Highland
College hangout with adjacent restaurant and, supposedly, the oldest continuously licensed bar in the city.
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BOCA Cocina de Barrio
Mexican restaurant located in Summerhill
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Botica
CL: CL's Cliff Bostock Recommends: If you’re looking for Mexican food partly spiked with Italian, Spanish, and Lebanese flavors in a restaurant with countless sports-watching screens and an awesome patio, this is your best destination. Opened by Chef Mimmo Alboumeh, the former owner of Red Pepper Taqueria, the restaurant’s best choice by far is the paella
served at dinner on Wednesdays. Among the best tacos are lamb birria and the pork pibil. If you want a starter to share, consider the gigantic and dramatic tamales coated in white crema, sitting in a pool of salsa morita. You can drink a lot here. - CB
Website: Chef Mimmo opened the doors of Botica in 2021, inspired by the flavors of Spain and Mexico offering elevated, chef-driven Mexican cuisine. Located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Botica showcases Mimmo’s unique brand of hybrid gastronomy.
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Dakota Blue
Located in one of Grant Park's few commercial strips, this affordable restaurant offers a tasty, simple brunch menu. Also: sidewalk dining.
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Emmy Squared Pizza - Glenwood Park
From the website:
Fellaship ATL
Black-owned Business
Fellaship is an exclusive intimate lounge and restaurant experience. Born from the creative vision of the NFL’s elite Cam Newton, Fellaship is an experience where class and audaciousness collide. A place for those to indulge in the luxuries of fine dining, cigar smoking, and socializing.
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Firepit Pizza Tavern
Firepit is a full-service restaurant with a chef-driven menu, craft beers, wines, and specialty cocktails. We believe it is important to offer great food, in a unique environment, with a warm welcoming staff. Firepit brings seditiously delicious pizza to Atlanta's historic Grant Park neighborhood a...
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Flatiron Bar and Restaurant
A scattering of sidewalk tables, draft beer, a stellar jukebox, and your average pub grub.
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Mezcalito's Cocina & Tequila Bar
Flock to the former warehouse space across the street from Oakland Cemetery for signature Mexican dishes and cocktails.
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Mix'D Up Burgers - East Lake
The gourmet burgers-and-fries food truck settles down in a brick-and-mortar outpost in its second location featuring indoor/outdoor dining and a full service bar.
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Steinbeck's Ale House
Upon first glance, you might dismiss this Irish-style pub in Oakhurst, just minutes from downtown Decatur, as nothing more than a small, comfy hole-in-the-wall with a nice outdoor patio. But the menu of slightly upscale bar food (try the Double Double burger) and Sunday brunch, not to mention the sa...
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The Argonaut
Oyster and Raw Fish Bar in Kirkwood serving up a varied menu alongside a fantastic drink menu!
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The Drafting Table Cocktails & Kitchen
Located inside of the Hotel Indigo Atlanta Downtown, we are connected to the AmericasMart convention center, providing guests convenient access to the convention center, Georgia World Congress Center, Mercedies-Benz Stadium and CNN Center. If you’re in Atlanta for a conference or convention, join us...
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The Family Dog
Farm-to-table, dog-friendly pub in Morningside.
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The Imperial
A neighborhood pub in Oakhurst, the Imperial features Southern comfort and typical bar food with a twist. The menu features a host of appetizers including black-eyed pea dip and la poutine de Georgia, but guests will also find wings, sandwiches, and burgers as well.
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The Pub at EAV
A global pub located at the heart of East Atlanta Village in the former Elder Tree Public House location.
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Thinking Man Tavern
Decorated with posters of the periodic table, planet factoids, and musculoskeletal charts, Thinking Man Tavern feeds the mind as well as the body. The menu includes local craft beers and a diverse roster of apps, burgers and favorites like bourbon fried chicken and red beans and rice. You'll satisfy...
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Tiny Lou's
From Tiny Lou's website: The food at Tiny Lou’s reads like a rugged love letter to French-American coziness — something like what one might cook for a lover — giddy, profoundly satisfying, conspiratorial — as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. Cooking like this is sometimes called comfort ...
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Tio Lucho's
Tio Lucho’s is a Peruvian restaurant from La Chingana chef Arnaldo Castillo and Howard Hsu of Sweet Auburn BBQ, Lazy Betty, and Juniper Cafe, inspired by Chef Castillo’s father “Luis”, a chef in Peru and Atlanta, who was affectionately known as Tio Lucho.
Wrecking Bar Brewpub
A comfortable restaurant in an uncooperative space with heavy stone walls in the basement of a Victorian-style home. There's a lot of wood everywhere, including a bar that is virtually hidden from much of the dining room. Farm-to-table food. Great original brews.
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GF+Wine Festival - Best Whiskey Challenge 2025