Taco al pastor at Carnitas Michoacán - $3.24 Store number: N6 – N9 – N11 – M10 Olivia HarrisonĮverything at Carnitas Michoacan is mouthwatering and satisfying because each dish starts with perfectly seasoned and expertly prepared meat. Find flavors like Ferrero Rocher, tequila with almonds, and tamarind. The stall also offers a colorful feast for the eyes with an array of gourmet popsicles. Try the limon con chia y pepina (lime with chia seeds and cucumber), a seriously refreshing drink for replenishing and resetting the palate. La Michoacana Niña Pop, which includes a location in Norcross, touts some of the best aguas fescas in the Atlanta area. You’re bound to get thirsty while on a tasting tour of Plaza Fiesta, so what better way to hydrate than with an aguas frescas. Limon con chia y pepino aguas frescas at La Michoacana Niña Pop - $4 Store number: D2 – D2A – D4- E1 – E2 – E3 – E4 – F1 – F3 The crunchy, cigar-like tortillas are rolled around flavorful shredded chicken, fried, and served with rice, beans, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream. The chicken flautas, however, are the menu heroes. One dish worth trying that might not be such an obvious choice to order at a taqueria is the milanesa de pollo, which is beautifully breaded and oh-so filling. There, they offer classic taqueria staples like tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and nachos. Chicken flautas at La Norteña Restaurant - $8.41 Store number: 1141 La Norteña Restaurantīefore opening Arepa Grill, the Cardenas bought La Norteña Restaurant in 2009. There’s no wrong order at Arepa Grill - even from the vegan and vegetarian options - but the pelua arepa with delicious shredded beef and melty gouda is a must for meat eaters. However, the real menu draw is the arepas. Try an order of the poppable, mini-cheese-filled tequeños or a cup of chicha, a sweet Venezuelan drink made with rice, milk, and cinnamon. The response to their Venezuelan food menu has been so positive, they opened a second location just up the road on Buford Highway in Doraville. Use this interactive map and the store numbers listed below each dish to help navigate the food stalls throughout the shopping mall.ģ0 Restaurants to Try Along Buford Highway in Metro Atlanta Pelua arepas at Arepa Grill - $7.99 Store number: N4 Olivia HarrisonĬlaudia and Pedro Cardenas opened Arepa Grill inside Plaza Fiesta in 2019. It’s simply business as usual at Plaza Fiesta, including feeding hundreds of people who come to eat here each day.Įater Atlanta compiled a quick guide to some of the best dishes to try right now at the restaurant stalls inside Plaza Fiesta. It’s unclear how this latest change in ownership affects the future of Plaza Fiesta and its shops and restaurant stalls, if at all. Asana also owns Krog Street Market in Inman Park and the Brickworks on Atlanta’s west side. Now Plaza Fiesta is owned by Asana Partners, one of the Charlotte-based real estate development company’s most recent acquisitions in Atlanta. Plaza Fiesta has changed hands a couple of times since opening in 2000, but the ethos behind this little corner of town always remained its cornerstone. Plaza Fiesta is indeed like walking into a busy town square bursting with businesses and people shopping, eating, and wandering through the sprawling marketplace.

The slogan for the indoor mall is “el rinconcito de nuestra pueblo” or “the little corner of our town”. Cruising down Buford Highway, it’s difficult to miss Plaza Fiesta’s characteristic blue and orange mosaic sun logo and parking lot bustling with activity no matter the day of the week.įirst built back in 1967 as the Buford-Clairmont Mall, the current incarnation Atlantans know today as Plaza Fiesta opened in 2000, billed as a shopping, entertainment, and dining destination for metro Atlanta’s growing Latin American population. Spanning nearly 350,000 square feet, Plaza Fiesta is a marketplace filled with over 200 shops, a farmers market, bakeries, and a food court with stalls serving dishes from countries throughout Latin America. And nowhere is that fact more apparent than at the food stalls found inside Plaza Fiesta in Chamblee. Nearly two dozen countries from around the world are represented in the restaurants and markets up and down Buford Highway, making it the most diverse and dynamic dining scene found anywhere in the metro Atlanta area. Running northeast of Atlanta for over 20 miles, Buford Highway has long been known to locals for its vast range of eating options.

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