Rundown office stacks formerly inhabited by bums are being rehabbed and rented out as lofts. A new restaurant opens every 15 minutes. Some of these eateries are no more than Buckhead watering holes, nightclubs thinly disguised with play kitchens and celebrity chefs who essentially serve as spokesmodels. Maybe I'm odd. But sometimes I like getting a bite to eat without having to fight wine consultants with mullet cuts and head-banging sound systems playing dreck from the likes of Eminem and his pal Elton John.
Celebrity is second cousin to a small, Houston, Texas, chain.
The individual quiche of the day is thus a fine place to start. Folks with room-temperature cholesterol counts will move right along to the Oreo cheesecake. A very rich carrot cake studded with raisins, coconut and pecans is worth the calories, too. High, wide and double-layer delicious, the carrot cake is iced with cream cheese frosting. Chocolate-nut drop cookies, also mediocre, were the best of several kinds of cookies.