Rarely has a restaurant transition gone as swimmingly as the rebirth of Atlas, where Bryan and Diane Carr, owners of Pomme Restaurant and Pomme Café & Wine Bar, succeeded original owners Michael Roberts and Jean Donnelly last summer. Six months later, things are rolling along smoothly, without a noticeable blip.
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Husband-and-wife team Michael Roberts and Jean Donnelly ran Atlas for about seven years before selling it last year to Bryan and Diane Carr of Pomme fame. Chef Daniel Dreher now runs the Atlas kitchen, and he’s kept the menu close in theme to the old Atlas, adding a touch more Italian accent to Roberts’ French-bistro approach. It’s a lack of change you can believe in.
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Our red-wine risotto was featured and photographed for Sauce Magazine, March 2010.
I’ve heard more than one person call Atlas one of St. Louis’ best-kept secrets, which makes no sense because pretty much everyone I know loves the place…
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Regulars hope nobody ever finds out about Forest Park’s true Paris bistro without the jet lag, where the honest, uncontrived, classic French and Italian dishes are both toe-curlingly good and a great value…
No, not a first date, but that rare event when you and your significant other can find time in your hectic lives to relax, share a bottle of wine, have an actual conversation and enjoy a terrific meal. Atlas is the ideal environment. There is hardly a more welcoming place in St. Louis…
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Sauce Magazine, 2009
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Atlas’ version (marjolaine) is a hazelnut-almond meringue layered with crème blanc and ganache. It starts with a layer of dacquoise, followed by a layer of ganache, a layer of sponge cake, crème blanc – a stabilized whipped cream – and ends with a second dacquoise layer. All five layers are soaked with rum syrup and the entire cake is the frosted with the bittersweet Callebaut chocolate ganache. How sweet it is!
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