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Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Owner/chef Marla Adams has put together a menu that's decidedly anti-haute cuisine, full of excellent interpretations of comfy, everyday provincial dishes. The crowd is made up of loyal locals, and the French farmhouse ambience matches the fare. The restaurant has some of the best mussels in town. Start off with the mussel appetizer, and don't let the offbeat combination of ingredients scare you off. Bivalves are Adams's specialty, and this unusual dish -- steamed mussels with white wine, strawberries, and serrano peppers -- is excellent. A longtime favorite entree -- grilled lamb loin chops with red-wine reduction and shoestring potatoes -- is kept on the menu by popular demand. Most of the selections from the reasonably priced wine list are available by the glass, part of Adams's strategy to encourage customers to sample different wines. There are special prix-fixe dinners held each season, the most famous of which is at New Year's. It's a re-creation of the food and wine from the book Babette's Feast, for which the restaurant is named. Babette's is a great place to stop after a visit to the Carter Center, which is just around the corner.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Atlanta, 11th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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