Tag: Lucky Star

It’s a brand-new year, Atlanta, and we’re leaning into feeling good. Here are five ways to take on this year solo from attending a forest-bathing session at the Chattahoochee Nature Center to going on a self-guided street art tour using the Atlanta Street Art Map.

Our 2025 Best of Atlanta picks for all things food-related—here's where you'll find great sushi, sandwiches, bread, vegan dishes, soul food, steak, desserts, and more.

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

Each new year in Atlanta brings with it the promise of new places to eat, drink, and, for 2024 in particular, play, thanks to new concepts from Justin Amick and William Stallworth (Painted Hospitality), a cabaret at the Works, and a 1990s-themed cocktail bar in Dunwoody—to name a few.

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).