Michelin-Starred Atelier Plans on Moving to a Larger Space

The Lincoln Square fine dining restaurant has turned to crowdfunding platform SMBX.

Michelin-starred restaurant Atelier is turning to crowdfunding in pursuit of a bigger location with more foot traffic. It will leave behind the 22-seat space that began drawing fine diners to Lincoln Square’s industrial corridor since Iliana Regan opened Elizabeth there in 2012.

“I could fix up the facade and draw more attention, but people are driving by pissed off that they’re stuck in traffic so they’re not paying attention to what’s around,” owner Tim Lacey says. “Even though we would mostly take reservations, just having that street presence

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