After a fire damaged The Americano kitchen in March, Food Network star and James Beard Award-winning chef Scott Conant took a long look at the restaurant he opened in 2022 and realized it was nothing to be proud of.

“I’ve become uninspired along the way,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The 54-year-old chef’s nearly 40-year culinary career began in his hometown Connecticut and has brought him inside restaurants around Italy, to New York City where he founded several acclaimed eateries including L’Impero and Scarpetta, and to Atlanta when he opened The Americano in the Intercontinental Buckhead Atlanta Hotel .

It’s now one of four restaurants he still operates, including Cellaio Steak in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the Kitchen at Resorts World Hudson Valley in Newburgh, Ne

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