ATLANTA — Two Atlanta restaurants are among those recognized in the most recent list of 50 best new restaurants in America published by Esquire magazine.
The list, published last week, features both Gigi's Italian Kitchen in Candler Park and Mujō in west Midtown.
Mujō in particular has had a splashy debut since it opened in Feb. 2022 - it was among the five Atlanta restaurants recently distinguished with Michelin stars, as well. Esquire's Joshua David Stein described the restaurant, helmed by longtime New York and Tokyo sushi chef J. Trent Harris, as a place where "as each morsel is plucked from the plate, it's like an intimate exchange at the end of a very long trip."
Gigi's opened in Aug. 2022 and is a minimal-menu Italian restaurant whose chefs, Jacob Armando and Eric Brooks, are described by Stein as "virtuosic, indeed obsessed, in execution."
"The food puts you in such good humor that you can’t help but make friends and end the evening sharing slugs of amaro passed down the bar by once and future strangers who, for tonight, are your paisans," Stein writes.
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