Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House sits directly across from Oakland Cemetery on Confederate Avenue, and that adjacency is not incidental — it shapes everything about the place.
You show up here on a Sunday afternoon and the rooftop is already half-full by noon. The view looks straight out over the cemetery’s Victorian oaks and the downtown skyline beyond them. It is one of the genuinely strange and lovely vantage points in the city, and the regulars treat it with the casual familiarity of people who have been coming for years without feeling the need to explain why.
The person most likely to be guiding your experience is whoever happens to be working the bar that day — and in a place like this, that matters. The bartenders here tend to stay. You will probably encounter someone who has been pouring drinks at Six Feet Under for three or four years, who knows the menu well enough to steer you away from a misstep and toward something you hadn’t considered. Ask what’s fresh. The fish changes, the sourcing varies by season, and they will tell you honestly if something is better than usual today.
What you order depends on what you want the meal to be. The fried catfish is the reliable anchor — seasoned without overcrowding the fish itself, served with hush puppies that come out hot and dense in the right way. The gumbo is worth getting even in summer. If you are indecisive, the fish tacos are a reasonable hedge, but the people who come here regularly tend to build toward the fuller plates rather than the smaller bites.
Drinks are straightforward and inexpensive by Atlanta standards. The draft selection leans toward local and regional craft beer without being exhaustive about it. A pint runs you around six or seven dollars. The frozen drinks are popular on the roof in July and you should not feel bad about ordering one — the heat up there is genuine and unforgiving.
Parking in Grant Park is its own negotiation. Street spots along Confederate Avenue and the side streets fill up on weekend afternoons. If you come on a weekday lunch, the situation is easier and the rooftop is quieter — a better choice if you want to actually look at the cemetery and think, rather than shout over a crowd.
The Grant Park location is the original; there’s a second outpost in West Midtown. The Grant Park version has a character the other can’t quite replicate, partly because of the building itself — an old house adapted into a bar over decades — and partly because of that cemetery view. Some Atlanta restaurants manufacture a sense of place. This one inherited it.
Dinner on a Thursday, rooftop in October when the trees are turning across the fence line, is probably the ideal version of the experience. But Six Feet Under works on a Wednesday at noon too, when you need somewhere that doesn’t take itself too seriously and serves a good plate of fried fish without making you wait an hour for a table. Plan for around $20 to $30 a person with a drink, more if you go heavy on appetizers.
