Tag: Billy Allin

Cakes & Ale owners Billy and Kristin Allin announced in an email newsletter today that their much loved Decatur restaurant is shutting down.

I cannot contain my disdain for the appetizer cheese course. Cheese is rich and, depending on the kind, funky. It satiates your appetite. It induces sleepiness, even. Why would anyone eat it at the beginning of the meal?

This Sunday, 25 of Atlanta’s best chefs—including Steven Satterfield, Anne Quatrano, Billy Allin, and Ryan Smith—will band together to for a "Supper at the Farm," a potluck-style dinner benefiting Chefs Collaborative.

Making a good butter croissant requires patience and a love for your craft—qualities that Proof Bakeshop head baker Cary Bell clearly possesses.

If you miss Billy Allin’s now-shuttered Cakes & Ale (and who doesn’t?), know that you can now find the master of simplicity himself behind the stove at his ever-so-French, all-day cafe: Bread & Butterfly.

In the 10 years since he opened Cakes & Ale in Decatur, Allin has slowly but surely laid the groundwork for a restaurant group that has no weak links.

Few restaurants make us want to slow down the way Billy Allin’s new Inman Park cafe does.

Cakes & Ale's Billy Allin discusses culinary school, wine, and his least favorite ingredient.

Atlanta’s largest collective of farmers markets has launched a new series of seasonal cookbooks. In May, Community Farmers Markets released the first edition, Spring.

It’s the all-day-and-night, something-for-everyone welcome that sets Bread & Butterfly apart and makes it settle in so snugly. I kept finding reasons to drop by, even if just to drink from the short and careful list of wines that's very French and unusually well priced.