Best Restaurants in Augusta
Five essential tables, ranked by occasion.
$ Under $20 | $$ $20–50 | $$$ $50–100 | $$$$ Over $100
Augusta’s Top 5
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Abel Brown
Abel Brown is chef-owner Todd Schafer's oyster bar and Southern kitchen in the Surrey Center, and a 2026 James Beard Award semifinalist. It is the easiest seat in Augusta for raw bar and shrimp and grits.
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.
