By DAVE HAMRICK
Staff Writer

Leaders of Fayetteville's Main Street program now have something they've been hoping for... a quality restaurant downtown.

City Cafe and Bakery is now open, serving European-style cuisine Monday - Saturday, 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The restaurant, across Ga. Highway 85 from City Hall, offers both a full-service, sit-down restaurant and a retail bakery and catering service, offering German breads, pastries and rolls.

Continental breakfast buffet is available mornings, with breads, Danish, cereals. Lunch and dinner menus will consist of soups, gourmet salads, sandwiches, stews, quiche and the like, said co-owner Doreen Schatte.

There will be daily dinner specials, she said, and the restaurant will offer Seattle's Best coffee, cappuccino and lattes.

The Southern-style building has a fireplace for ambience, and other architectural touches such as a stamped concrete floor. Diners can enjoy an interior decor that includes historic Fayetteville scenes, or dine on the patio in sight of Fayette County's Heritage Park and fountain.

City leaders tout the new restaurant as a key element in their efforts to create a turn-of-the-century, pedestrian atmosphere downtown.

The Main Street program is currently restoring the historic Hollingsworth House on Stonewall Avenue, just around the corner from the new restaurant, as a community center. And plans are to purchase and finish restoring the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House as a museum and tourist stop.

Period street lights and brick sidewalks on the Courthouse Square are helping put the finishing touches on the revitalization effort, according to Main Street officials.

"We feel they will really fulfill the Main Street program's desire for a quality restaurant that we have been trying to attract for a long time," said Sherri Anderson, Main Street coordinator, during a recent City Council meeting.