2025 Centurion Award winner
Manuel's Tavern
Best Tavern in Atlanta · Atlanta, GA
Best Tavern in Atlanta · Atlanta, GA
Manuel's Tavern has been Atlanta's quintessential neighborhood bar since Manuel Maloof opened it in Poncey-Highland in 1956. Journalists, politicians, police, and Emory students have shared its wood-paneled booths for generations, and the walls — thick with photos, memorabilia, and Democratic-Party history — read like a scrapbook of the city.
The kitchen turns out honest tavern food and cold beer, but the draw has always been the room itself: a genuinely democratic gathering place that has outlasted nearly every bar of its era.
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Since 1956, Manuel's Tavern has been where Atlanta's reporters, politicians, and Poncey-Highland regulars share pitchers under decades of memorabilia.
Yes — Manuel's Tavern is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Tavern in Atlanta, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best tavern in Atlanta for 2025 for seven decades as the wood-paneled clubhouse of Atlanta's journalists, politicos, and neighbors.
Manuel's Tavern is in Atlanta, GA.
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