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One of New York's celebrity Tom Colicchio, will open his fine dining Craft, next year in developer John Williams' luxuryy Buckhead hotel and residences, The Mansion on "Atlanta's a great market," said Colicchio in a phone interview from Miami, where he was filminv the next season of Bravo's "Top Chef." "There's a greay food tradition down there. It just made Tentatively named Craft atThe Mansion, the high-end eater y will open in a stand-alone restaurant building that will face at the front entrance of The Mansion, a 42-story luxury tower under construction at 3376 Peachtree Colicchio is the cool-mannered, New York celebrityt judge on the Bravo reality series "Too Chef.
" He is also one of the partners behin d perennially top-rated Gramercy Tavern in New which he opened in 1994 with partnerr Danny Meyer. Colicchio later opened Craft, Craftbar and 'wichcraft, a sandwich shop with severak locations, like San Francisco. Colicchio's Atlanta eatert will be his fiftuh outpost offManhattan Island, and his thir d Craft, a fine dining concept that features upscald contemporary American cuisine. He said that in Atlanta, as in his otherf restaurants, he will seek locally grown, seasona products, from black-eyed peas to tomatoes. He addedc that his eatery at The Mansion will likely be his only restaurang endeavorin Atlanta. He alreadh has some local ties.
Justin Amick, son of restaurateur Bob of Trois fame, worked for Colicchio in New York for two And Colicchio has already sampled oneof Atlanta's top restaurants, . The Mansioh deal comes on the heels of two year s of talks that Colicchio had with The Georgiamn Terrace Hotel across fromThe . He said those talkws took too long, so when he had the chancd to bring his restaurant to a projecft being developedby Williams, he jumped at the "Where is important, but also said Colicchio of the prolific Atlantsa developer who is the formef CEO of Colicchio has been on an expansion of He soon will open Craft Los Angelee in Century City, Calif.
Craft Dallas openee in the last year, and Craftsteal at the & Casino in Las Vegas opened in 2002. Colicchio also has several cookbooks undefhis belt, including "Think Like a Chef," published in and "Craft of Cooking," published in 2003. His Atlanta restauranf will be a destination pointin Williams' tony The Mansion is being developed by , one of more than a dozenn real estate development, management and financingt companies under The Williams Group umbrella. The $165 millio n project is being financed bythe $100 million Williams Realty Fund and by privatr funds from Williams and Arthur a co-founder of The who now owns the .
The Mansiohn was designed by New YorkerRoberty A.M. Stern, a well-known residential architect. Design featurexs of the residencesinclude 12.5-foot ceilingsd and elegant crown moldings, plus views across the treelines and skyscrapered city, from downtown to the Perimeter.