Longleaf Atlanta

Ambiance gets 5 stars! What a beautiful setting to have dinner while gazing at the Garden of Lights. There is also a bar in the back of the restaurant with nice seating around a fireplace. Great option for a date night. My party of 9 enjoyed the service from David. He was awesome! The food was good but not memorable. I still recommend!

I'm not sure why this place doesn't have better reviews. I went recently with the family during a visit to the Botanical Gardens for lunch on a Saturday and the food, service were phenomenal. We ended up agreeing that we should come back to the Botanical Gardens more frequently just to eat at Longleaf. Food: 5/5 Whole Longleaf doesn't offer brunch on Saturdays, their lunch menu does offer a good variety of options for different palates. Their bread service, while not free ($12 as I recall), was phenomenal and was the perfect accompaniment to their other starter, the butternut squash soup. Their soup, while thick, isnt overly seasoned and is light and pleasing to the taste. Their addition of fresh herbs makes this a delicious light soup vs some of the soggier high sodium soups you'll find at other spots. For the entrees, I recommend the duck confit and the main salad. Their salads are so fresh, well seasoned, and not overly oily, having just the right feel when bitten into. Longleaf might just have the best salads in town. Get one! Service: 5/5 Our server was fantastic in every regard, and took extra time to check on us throughout the meal, even offering to combine boxes together into a larger bag to help us with the take out. We also needed a highchair and they didn't disappoint here with getting one quickly (and one that works). Environment: 5/5 Great place for a date or a family outing, the location is modern, clean, and has great restrooms. For little ones, the baby changing station in the restroom is an A+. The architecture of the restaurant is built with high glass walls, making a dine-in a fantastic view. Bottom Line Get the salad, bread service, and butternut squash soup. Perfect place for a dinner date or family outing on the weekends.

This restaurant is inside the Atlanta Botanical Garden in midtown Atlanta. The ambiance is beautiful with one side being all glass windows overlooking the gardens. The opposite wall contains beautiful six foot colorful paintings. It truly is a beautiful setting. The menu has starters, salads, sandwiches, entrees and dessert. It was a cool day and I was really looking forward to some soup. I mistook the French onion dip on the menu for French onion soup and ordered what I thought was soup, and a beet salad. I repeated the word soup again when my waiter asked me if I wanted the two items together and I responded that I would have the soup first. As you can imagine, I was surprised when the onion dip came out instead of soup. It was very tasty, buy not what I was expecting. I guess I need to be more careful when reading the menu. The beat salad was tasty, but not very substantial. If I returned to the gardens I would eat here again but would definitely order different items.

The ambiance was beautiful, very fancy and our waiter was very nice the only thing is it was a but slow and wasn't very busy. The squash blossom risotto was AMAZING with Roasted corn. I wish there were more than just two squash blossoms because it was a lot of risotto. It was creamy and flavorful amd not too spicy, but like I said, I would have loved more of those blossoms on top. I'm definitely going to try to recreate this at home since I don't live around here to get it again. Risotto 5 stars, slow service docked a bit because I was super hungry haha

I came at an off time by myself (well with a book) and it was just so pleasant. The waiter was friendly and nice, the space has this soft lighting with a lot of natural light too, and overall it felt really serene. I didn't feel rushed to leave either. I ordered the mushroom risotto with a side of salmon and a glass of wine and it was all delicious. I will say the only negative experience (if you could even call it negative) is that the hostess initially looked at me like I was a vagrant, said something along the lines of "are you looking for something?" and only softened when I said no that I wanted to eat (which was awkward because I've never had to state my purpose when walking into a restaurant before, but again it was an off time so that might've been why). Overall a nice experience and I would go back!