Is Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 10, Episode 7

Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours appeared in the episode "Key Ingredient," which featured the restaurant's modern Southern and global soul food menu. Twisted Soul is a restaurant in the Blandtown/West Midtown area of Atlanta led by chef Deborah VanTrece, and it has been recommended in the Michelin Guide, according to the restaurant's own website. A 2026-09-08 check of twistedsoulatl.com found the site live with a running promotion inviting diners to submit a dish review for an October 1 prize drawing, along with an active OpenTable reservation link.

A Yelp business listing for the restaurant at 1133 Huff Road Northwest, updated 2026-09, showed 977 reviews and gave no indication the business had closed. Between the restaurant's own current promotion and the September 2026 Yelp update, two independent sources point to the restaurant continuing to operate.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29, Episode 12 Aired February 15, 2019

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours in Atlanta's Blandtown neighborhood for the episode "Whole Lotta Comfort," which aired 2019-02-15. Guy Fieri sampled the restaurant's Southern-inflected comfort food, highlighting fried chicken and seafood dishes alongside other soul food staples. The restaurant, a full-service cookhouse and bar, paired scratch-made Southern plates with a cocktail and pours program, giving the episode its dual "cookhouse and pours" identity. Tripadvisor lists the restaurant in Atlanta's Blandtown area, and Diners Drive-Ins and Dives Locations catalogs the stop as part of the show's Atlanta lineup. This appearance is tracked as a repeat visit to a restaurant already profiled elsewhere in the database; see the linked record for its current operating status and sourced update history.