Pastries A Go Go

Pastries A Go Go: one groovy bakery café

You don’t need mod white boots to Watusi down to Pastries A Go Go for some groovy  biscuits, cookies, muffins, sticky buns, cakes, salads and sandwiches.

The cozy café with the retro name and heavenly baked goods attracts families, workers from nearby offices and those hungering for fresh baked goods, gourmet coffee and tasty lunches.

Owner and Executive Pastry Chef Bob Light knows his way around a flour sack and rolling pin —  two names he and his wife, Lek, considered for the bakery café when they opened in 1995. Customers clamored for more, and they expanded to breakfast and lunch, but steadfastly insist they don’t ever want to be open for dinner.

Their motto? "Everything we have here is fresh, except the help." Lek visits local markets daily for fresh and seasonal fruits, vegetables and meats.

As a good, self-respecting Southern cook, Light makes sinfully good cat’s head biscuits, so named because they’re about as big as a tabby’s head. Atlanta magazine chose their chocolate chip cookies as among the best in town.

Pastries A Go Go also does a brisk catering business, specializing in American- and European-style cakes. To savor the tender, sweet cakes without catering a wedding, try a Mini-Cake, a special two-person cake available daily in changing flavors

And how many bakeries brag about their mice? Created in 1996 to counter the Olympic mascot, Chef Bob’s mouse is a buttercream cookie with almond filling and dipped in chocolate with almond accents.

The lunch menu, served from 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., includes a variety of salads, sandwiches and soups. Try the chicken salad plate, a generous scoop of creamy chicken salad served on a bed of mixed lettuce complemented with a generous array of fresh seasonal fruits, topped off with a crisp fresh-baked lavosh crackers.

All sandwiches are served on the café’s fresh baked breads — whole wheat, white, rye, bagel, croissant, French baguette. Choose fillings from oven-roasted turkey, roast beef, chicken salad, tuna salad, ham, corned beef, egg salad and Swiss, cheddar or smoked gouda cheese.

Breakfast is served daily until 2:30 p.m., coffee and desserts only afterward. On weekends, the brunch menu includes a heavenly eggs Benedict, with cloud-like poached eggs over a sumptuous cat’s head biscuit, with a coat of delicate hollandaise sauce and ham. The sausage here is homemade, and breakfast sides include grits, naturally.

- by Diane Loupe, Atlanta Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)