ATOMIX
Korean restaurant · Midtown East ·
Upscale Korean tasting menu with beverage pairings
Upscale Korean tasting menu with beverage pairings
"Located within the ground floor and basement of a residential brownstone in Murray Hill, this two-Michelin-starred Korean fine dining spot offers a sleek, intimate setting with both an upstairs bar and a downstairs chef’s counter, where just 28 guests are served each night. The 10-course tasting menu, created by chef Junghyun “JP” Park, feels personal, refined, and visually beautiful, with seasonal dishes like a fried abalone course inspired by the Korean Chinese dish tangsuyuk and a plate of local monkfish liver with squid and tangerine standing out on a recent visit. Desserts are unusually impressive and light, including a passionfruit ice with white lotus tea jelly and tapioca pudding, as well as a rice ice cream with soybean mousse and honeycomb. Service here is the most impressive experienced in NYC, striking a balance between highly attentive and completely unstuffy, with staff as ready to chat about Nathan Fielder as they are about the best pizza in Jersey City — a level of hospitality that helped earn the restaurant a James Beard Award for Outstanding Hospitality. Nonalcoholic and low-ABV beverage pairings, priced at $110, are delightful and feature teas, fermented drinks, and nonalcoholic wines, rounding out an experience that remains at the forefront of Korean fine dining even seven years after opening." - Zoe Becker
"As a Korean restaurant, it kept its two-star rating." - Melissa McCart
"A Korean tasting menu restaurant, Atomix landed at number one on the wider list." - Dianne de Guzman
"Ranked No. 1 on the new North America’s 50 Best list, I noted Atomix as a New York City Korean American tasting-menu restaurant that received the highest number of weighted votes from 300 regional voters and anchors a triumvirate of high-end Korean tasting menus alongside Jungsik and Benu." - Matthew Kang
"Touted as the best restaurant in North America on 50 Best's inaugural list, Atomix is a New York City fine-dining restaurant from husband-wife team Junghyun ("JP") and Ellia Park that has been serving an innovative tasting menu of Korean cuisine since it opened in 2018. Its impeccable dishes and hospitality earned the restaurant two Michelin stars in 2021, and it ranked 12th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025 (down from a high of No. 6 the prior year); Atomix was the only North American restaurant to make that global top 50. After the win Ellia said, "This is a dream; I'm in the clouds. This [win] is not just for me and for us and our restaurant, it's for our country too," and JP added that when they first moved to the U.S. they never thought they could be on that stage, saying they're "just working hard and trying to make better food and build some community, which we love." - ByAbbey Stone