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Atlas Turns the Ellis Building Into a Passport for Farm-to-Table Dining
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By Rebecca Thompson | Jan. 29, 2026
Atlas is chef-owner Elliot Hunt’s argument that Fayetteville deserves a restaurant that thinks beyond the city borders and cooks bigger than “let’s do another steak.” It lives inside the Historic Ellis Building, and the space leans into the idea that dinner can be a trip without the cheesy postcard writing.
The menu backs it up with detail that reads like a cook wrote it: beef tartare comes with pickled asian pear, celery root remoulade, dashi-poached tomato, and sourdough crostini; mussels arrive in hawthorn berry broth with pink peppercorn and chive oil; and and the lamb arrives with purple yam, Swiss chard, cippolini onions, and a smoky baba ganoush below.
Dessert is no less elevated: sweet potato mousse and white chocolate chai ganache, with miso caramel and sesame sponge cake, with candied pecans and chai ice cream.
Atlas is polished, but it is not stiff, and it has the rare confidence to let a dish go off the script of what’s expected without losing track of the goal to also make it delicious.
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