As one of the Southeast’s most prolific and visionary restauranteurs, Giorgios Bakatsias has spent the greater part of his life-defining and redefining the dining experience. With over forty years in the culinary industry, he has been the creative force behind countless restaurants, food venues, gourmet markets, and boutique hotels. Giorgios’ relentless optimism and insatiable curiosity have left him justly undefinable. His contributions to Durham and the surrounding Triangle ignited and re-positioned a community once defined only by its educational and medical prowess. A global soul; Bakatsias’ concepts are a derivation of his life’s journey, where beauty is an intrinsic vibration and hospitality, a gracious intention.