Atlas Kitchen•Upper West Side

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Atlas Kitchen is a contemporary Chinese restaurant subdued elegance in a muted color scheme, marble tabletops and a mural of mountains and towers done by the artist Qiu Anxiong in the style of traditional Chinese watercolors. Though the menu menu includes some popular items, like soup dumplings and pot sticks, it also offers a feast for those with uninhibited tastes for robust seasoning and offal.