Tag: Jason Liang

After a string of accomplished Japanese restaurants, chef Jason Liang takes a sharp turn with his latest project, Lucky Star. Located on Howell Mill Road, the Michelin-starred chef trades in sushi for Taiwanese food, with all its bold, deeply comforting flavors.

Growing up in Taiwan, Lucky Star chef and partner Jason Liang remembers attending celebratory feasts in tents along the side of the road, where specialty chefs prepared massive meals served family style to commemorate a wedding or birthday. Called Ban-Dou, these events are cultural experiences focused on togetherness. At Lucky Star, Liang—who also owns Michelin-starred O By Brush, Momonoki, Brush Sushi, Cuddlefish, and Momo Café—shares his roots with Atlantans. Now, he’s letting them in on the Ban-Dou celebrations, too.

Chef Jason Liang and John Chen, owners of Michelin-starred O by Brush, are now serving sushi in Dunwoody’s High Street development. Their newest restaurant, Cuddlefish, focuses on temaki, or hand rolls. Designed to be more affordable and approachable than Brush—which is known for its omakase—Cuddlefish also features a cafe with coffee and pastries made by Liang’s wife, pastry chef ChingYao Wang

Chef Jason Liang, the culinary mastermind behind Brush Sushi, Cuddlefish, Momonoki, and Momo Café, is adding another Asian-inspired restaurant to his ever-growing list. Lucky Star will open in January or February 2024 with two distinct spaces: a casual café and bar in the Star Metals lobby and a reservation-only back-room bar serving elevated cocktails designed by Kirk Gibson (the Giving Kitchen).

In which our critic roams the metro in search of everything delicious. This time: Japanese noodles, coffee, and green-tea pastries and soft-serve.

The 4,400-square-foot space in Buckhead Village will be nearly double the size of the original and will include a 17-seat omakase room. It will feature a more modern design with low lighting, Japanese woodwork, and Binchotan charcoal grills.

This year's semifinalists include Kamayan ATL, pastry chefs Claudia Martinez and Jen Yee, and chefs Kevin Gillespie, Todd Richards, Jason Liang, Craig Richards, and Joey Ward.

You can learn a lot about the origins of Momonoki, a new fast-casual joint in Midtown, from the Instagrams of Taiwanese-American chef Jason Liang and Taiwanese pastry chef ChingYao Wang (who’s also his wife). The couple best known for Decatur’s Brush Sushi Izakaya recently ate their way through Taipei and Tokyo as inspiration for Momonoki and its attached bakery, Momo Cafe.

This spring, Atlantans will be able to enjoy ramen, rice bowls, and katsu sando in a casual environment in the heart of Midtown. Brush Sushi Izakaya’s Jason Liang is opening a counter-service restaurant called Momonoki, along with coffee and dessert bar called Momo Café.

The idea behind Brush Sushi Izakaya—contained right there in the name—is that the Decatur restaurant would be an izakaya, the Japanese version of a gastropub. Designed to serve something for every taste, izakayas’ menus are by necessity ambitious, and Jason Liang, Brush’s founding chef, understands that.