Picture-postcard Conyers is the new home of some big corporations and film crews, and The Green Street Café [Seven Gables Restaurant] reflects that uptown/down-home split personality: The menu boasts tournedos Diane, chicken Montrachet and duckling la Boheme, but there is also an $8.95 Sunday brunch to compete with the Holiday Inn down the road.

Our reader suggests the duckling (and our waiter said he’d had to make Carroll O’Conner try something different for a change), but after crisp spinach-filled phyllos, we tried the seafood panache. Even at $20, it was a good value: giant heaps of fresh crab, lobster, mussels, clams and chicken made a kind of paella over pasta, dotted with a delicious homemade sausage that also appeared in the veal noisettes.

Desserts – pears poached in Grand Marnier, and a chocolate truffle filled with praline ice cream – prompted swooning. There’s also cappuccino from Rockdale County’s biggest, brassiest machine.

Archie’s Place
K.R.
ATLANTA MAGAZINE
Nov. 1991