Michelin Bib Gourmand fried chicken with a quietly smart wine list
Roswell · Atlanta · Southern · Visit Website ↗
Updated June 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · February 22, 2026
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Table & Main is famous for its Michelin Bib Gourmand fried chicken and its Simple, Seasonal, Southern soul, not for its wine list. But the backstory matters — the Pernice brothers who own this place also run Osteria Mattone's Wine Spectator-decorated cellar next door. Daniel Pernice, a sommelier trained at The Modern in New York, curates this list. It is deliberately compact and that is the point.
Sixteen selections total, every single one available by the glass. The list leans New World with smart California, Oregon, and Washington picks alongside a handful of well-chosen French bottles. Willamette Valley Pinot Noir gets two entries — the Argyle Bloomhouse and Pick Road — which is a meaningful choice for a Southern restaurant. Washington's Hedges Red Mountain Syrah adds a smoky, savory option that plays beautifully with the pork chop. The quiet standout is a 2012 Borealis Vintners Riesling — a 14-year-old Pacific Northwest Riesling hiding on a fried chicken menu. That is not a distributor pick. That is a sommelier's wink.
Every wine on the list is available by the glass, priced from $12 to $20. That is the whole program — no bottle-only holdouts, no upsell pressure. With most pours in the $12 to $15 range, you can work through fried chicken, shrimp and grits, and blackened catfish with a different glass for each course and still come in under budget. The Francois Montand Brut from Jura at $13.50 is a genuine celebration pour at a Bib Gourmand price.
Pick Road Pinot Noir — $13/glass
Willamette Valley Pinot Noir at thirteen dollars a glass in a Michelin-recognized restaurant. Light enough for fried chicken, structured enough for the pork chop, and priced like the operators want you to order a second round.
Borealis Vintners Riesling 2012
A fourteen-year-old Pacific Northwest Riesling on a Southern comfort food menu is the kind of curveball that tells you a real wine person picked this list. The aged petrol notes and honeyed acid will absolutely sing with the fancy cornbread and honey butter.
Noughty Non-Alcoholic Sparkling
At $52 a bottle for a non-alcoholic sparkling option, the math is tough. If you are not drinking, save the money and enjoy sweet tea with your fried chicken — this is the South, after all.
Hedges Red Mountain Syrah + Table & Main Fried Chicken
This sounds wrong but it works. The Syrah's smoky black pepper and dark fruit cut through the crispy buttermilk batter and the bird's natural richness. Red wine with fried chicken is an underrated move and the Hedges has enough acidity to keep it from getting heavy.
Monday — T&M Mondays — 3-course prix fixe for $35 (wine pairs especially well at this price point)
The Bottom Line
Table & Main proves that a small wine list can still be a smart wine list when the right person is choosing the bottles. You will come for the fried chicken and the Bib Gourmand credibility. The wine list will not be the main event, but it will quietly make your dinner better — and that is exactly what a reliable program should do.
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