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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 curate 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 curated 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.