Fawn Wine + Amaro

Fawn Wine + Amaro

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Fawn is what happens when a seafood-only fine-dining bar decides restraint is optional. The team behind Deer & the Dove built a tasting menu that runs long and strange in the best way — a bluefin tuna preparation served in the actual vertebra, finished tableside with a shot of bitter vermouth poured straight into the bone. It reads like a stunt. It tastes like something considered, seawater and citrus doing exactly what they're supposed to.

The room backs up the ambition. Decatur Square is loud outside; Fawn is black brick, low light, curved booths built for leaning in and talking quietly, with a stray duck photo working as the only joke in an otherwise serious space. The tasting menu runs at the back bar, which is the right seat for watching a kitchen commit fully to a bit and pull it off.

Nothing here plays it safe, and not everything lands soft — some courses are built to be odd first, delicious second. That's the trade this kitchen wants you to make, and it's a good one. Michelin agrees, naming Fawn to its Atlanta selections. The city noticed the same thing this house did.

The Spot
Fawn Wine & Amaro Bar sits on Decatur Square, a sister restaurant to The Deer and the Dove, run by Terry and Jenn Koval. The menu draws on the culinary traditions of France, Italy, and the southeastern U.S. coastline, built around dry-aged seafood and a volcanic-terroir wine list, with fish and shellfish sourced from small producers including Anchored Shrimp Co., Bramlett Trout Farms, and Sapelo Island Sea Farms.

The bar program centers on an amaro-focused cocktail list led by beverage director Matt Watkins, alongside the volcanic wine selection. In the kitchen, Kyle Campisi serves as chef de cuisine and Albert Sanjapov as sous chef.

The room is dark and quiet, with curved booths, black brick walls, and dim lighting — a contrast to the activity of Decatur Square outside. Bar seating is open to walk-ins, while a nine-course tasting menu runs by reservation at the back bar, with dishes built for drama: one course sends jelly-like bluefin tuna "bone marrow" out in an actual tuna vertebra. Regulars have noted the knowledgeable service and intimate, cozy feel of the space.

Fawn Wine & Amaro Bar was selected in the 2025 Michelin Guide, and both Atlanta Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named it among the city's best restaurants of 2025.
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AWARDMichelin Guide Selected2025
CRITICCovered by Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CRITICCovered by Atlanta Magazine
CRITICCovered by The Infatuation
RATINGS4.5 stars across 48 reviews2 sources
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