Founder of restaurant Musi, Miller created a higher standard in the Philadelphia food world for using local, hyper-seasonal produce, cheeses and meats. There are few restaurants that took the avoidance and innovative reinvention of would-be food waste to the level that Chef Ari Miller did at Musi, where he was named Best Chef 2019 by Philadelphia Magazine. He draws upon flavors honed after a decade spent in Israel, but with restraint. As Hillary Dixler Canavan put it, while naming Musi one of Eater’s 16 Best New Restaurants: “Musi prioritizes the things that diners ought to demand — a menu informed by local product and a kitchen connected to the region’s best purveyors — but the restaurant doesn’t beat you over the head with it.”