3. Masterpiece
Rui Liu, a certified master chef from northeastern China, came to America on an O-1 visa given only to “individuals with extraordinary achievement.” Just wait til you bite into the more than 100 dishes on his menu.
1. Miller Union
At Miller Union, Georgia native Steven Satterfield gathers every misguided notion about Southern food and tosses them in the compost heap.
The Optimist
At Ford Fry’s stylishly nautical seafood restaurant, there are many ways to plot a course to an ideal meal.
Heirloom Market BBQ
Heirloom Market BBQ is a love story—between its co-owners, wife and husband Jiyeon Lee and Cody Taylor, and between the homestyle Korean cooking of her childhood and the homestyle Texan cooking of his.
9292 Korean Barbecue
Korean barbecue is the sum of its parts. At 9292—the flagship of a growing mini-empire, including the almost-as-good D92 in Decatur—each part is a cut above.
10. LanZhou Ramen
It’s not in every city that you can find Lanzhou-style, hand-pulled noodles, which are nothing short of an art form.
Empire State South
It’s been eight years since celebrity chef Hugh Acheson opened Empire State South. A lot has changed since then, but Empire State South remains a destination restaurant in a part of Midtown that has too few of them.
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