Esquire ranks Ford Fry’s Optimist best new restaurant

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Ford Fry, the Atlanta chef who is on a hot streak and plans toopen another new restaurant in Buckhead in January, had his most recentrestaurant opening The Optimist picked by Esquire magazine as its “Best NewRestaurant of the Year.”  

Atlanta chef Ford Fry

Fry, who also runs JCT. Kitchen & Bar and No. 246,has begun renovation work on the former Nava restaurant site, in the OneBuckhead Plaza building at the corner of Peachtree and West Paces Ferry Roads,which he plans to open the first month in 2013 with an early American motif.The restaurant is still unnamed at this point.
Esquire said The Optimist is “far more than a resounding localsuccess. It is an overnight totem of all that is wonderful about American foodtoday.”
Esquire also said, “A soaring, convivial spot, The Optimist hasa hopping oyster bar shaped like a surfboard, a first-rate cocktail program,and seafood cooked with old-school expertise over a wood fire.”
Fry has not said what the cuisine will be for the new restaurantin Buckihead, but he has said the restaurant will feature open hearth cooking.