Food
The Michelin Chef Who Stopped Chasing Stars
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Edition
Hasung Lee spent over a decade mastering the technical precision of elite kitchens—Atomix, The French Laundry—before opening Oyatte, a farm-to-table restaurant that isn't a rejection of rigor but a different expression of the same obsession with ingredient quality and control.
Lee worked at two-Michelin Atomix and three-Michelin The French Laundry before opening Oyatte
Oyatte serves an eight-course tasting menu sourced from Crown Daisy Farm in upstate New York
The move reveals a fundamental misreading: that fine-dining technique and farm-focused philosophy are opposing forces
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