{"id":907787,"date":"2026-11-06T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907787\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:16:14","slug":"nycs-atomic-is-sole-u-s-restaurant-to-make-worlds-50-best-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907787\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s Atomic is Sole U.S. Restaurant to Make World’s 50 Best List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 50<\/a>,\u00a0formerly World\u2019s 50 Best, dropped their annual list of the\u00a0best restaurants<\/a> in the world last night at a ceremony in Lima, Peru.\u00a0And out of the top 50 dining destinations, just one North American spot made the cut\u2014and it’s here in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That honor deservedly goes to Atomix, taking the number\u00a011 spot\u00a0following its debut at number 12 last year. The publication praised husband-and-wife team, Junghyun (JP) and Ellia Park, for their \u201csensational space that’s home to one of the most progressive Korean tasting menus outside of Seoul, and one of New York’s hottest tables.\u201d The 50’s\u00a0editorial team continued on:\u00a0\u201cThose in search of just a light bite or a drink can visit the bar upstairs for a craft cocktail or signature snacks such as JP’s sticky rice-stuffed fried chicken wings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

JP Park also won the Estrella Damm Chefs’ Choice Award 2026, the only peer-voted award, for his philosophical approach to Korean cooking that extends to his other concepts, including\u00a0Naro, Seoul Salon and Somssi<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nPhotgraph: Courtesy of Evan Sung| Atomix <\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time the Korean restaurant has received top marks from the publication:\u00a0Atomix took the number one spot<\/a> for the inaugural North America 50 Best Restaurants last year. And this is just one of the many awards that Atomix has received since opening over on\u00a0East 30th Street in May 2018; it was\u00a0awarded Outstanding Hospitality in 2025 and\u00a0Best Chef: New York State in 2023 from the James Beard Foundation, and retains two-star status from the Michelin Guide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

North America as a whole was represented a bit better on the extended list<\/a>, which\u00a0included entries from Fauna in Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico (at No. 99); Rosetta in Mexico City, Mexico (No. 96); SingleThread in Healdsburg, California (No. 93); Arca in Tulum, Mexico (No. 87); Huniik in M\u00e9rida, Mexico (No. 79)\u00a0and Alcade in Guadalajara, Mexico (No. 55). <\/p>\n

And while North America has yet to crack the top ten, we still give our props to those dining rooms that did, including Lima\u2019s Kjolle (No. 7), Quintonil in Mexico City (No. 4)\u00a0and Gaggan in Bangkok (No. 2). This year’s number-one spot went to Asador Etxebarri, located in Spain\u2019s Basque Country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out the top ten winners here<\/a>. For the complete list, head to The 50’s\u00a0official website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 50,\u00a0formerly World\u2019s 50 Best, dropped their annual list of the\u00a0best restaurants in the world last night at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[112766,88,169143,4322],"class_list":["post-907787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-entertainment","tag-news-eating","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}