Hasung Lee Opens Oyatte, a Vegetable-Focused Tasting-Menu Restaurant in New York

The chef at Oyatte is Hasung Lee, a contestant on Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars. The New York restaurant’s inventive eight-course tasting menu is built around fresh vegetables, with produce coming from Crown Daisy Farm in Staatsburg, New York.

Oyatte has been fully booked every day since opening, and some guests have come in because of the Netflix show. Because of a Seven Rooms booking platform issue, the restaurant started at 55 covers per day—nearly double the planned 30.

Lee had been planning Oyatte since 2020, before he appeared on Netflix. The opening was postponed four times because of permits, furniture, and construction delays. He previously worked at Gramercy Tavern, Atomix, The French Laundry, and Geranium.