Cafe Sunflower Buckhead

For three decades, Cafe Sunflower has been a bedrock of Atlanta’s meat-free community. It’s the kind of place where waitstaff, without exchanging words, usher regulars to their favorite single booth seats by the entrance while the kitchen readies an order of sesame soy chicken and carrot cake. Yet, without changing too much for loyal fans, the restaurant has kept things fresh. It’s now in a bigger space in the same Buckhead shopping center and has a growing menu that ventures from Mexican (the fried avocado tacos are heavenly) to Greek (a gyro so good you’ll want the sweet caramelized onions and marinated seitan on top of everything you eat for the next year).