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"Chef Tyrone Hunt brings East Coast and European culinary experience to ‘plan b café’ in the Pocket."

Pocket News - 5/3/2007


Plan B Cafe to open in Pocket

Take two long-time friends, one a graduate of the French Culinary Institute of New York with East Coast and European culinary experience, the other with degrees in hotel, restaurant, and culinary management who has been in the culinary business in both France and San Francisco since he was 11, and you have a team with a plan to succeed.

That plan is “plan b café,” a French-American cuisine restaurant newly open in the Pocket at 7600 Greenhaven Drive.

Chef Tyrone Hunt, born and raised in San Diego, brings experience and honors earned in the 12 years from since he graduated the French Culinary Institute in New York. His impressive resume shows internships at L’Ecole, Montrachet and March in New York and positions as sous-chef-head baker at New York’s Villa Roma and Patria, as assistant pastry chef.

He came away from seven years in France and Germany with a list of awards including GQ Magazine’s nod as among the best new restaurants in Germany, Elle Magazine’s top 55 restaurants in Germany, Marcellino’s Guide to Sexy Food – in the top two – and Munich’s Magazines Top Spots 2004.

Owner Lionel Lucas, who prefers to go by Lucas, is a first-generation American. He brings business savvy gleaned from growing up in the business in France and San Francisco. He may be best known in this area for creating and developing downtown’s Sofia restaurant.

The intent of the restaurant, said Lucas’ father, Albert Lucas, who supports his son in the café, “is to open a nice French café, a nice neighborhood restaurant with French ambiance.”

After a move from San Francisco to Sacramento a few years ago, Lionel Lucas “loved it,” said his father. “He knew this was the place to develop something nice.”

Plan b café is intended to give local residents a quality restaurant experience without the need to drive downton or to San Francisco.

Since it’s mid-April opening, “it has been wonderful,” said Albert Lucas. “People have been coming back. One gentleman came back three times in one week.”

Menu items include “stix,” small bamboo skewers with tiger prawns, rib-eye steak or chicken; fresh soups, salads, mussels, sandwiches and burgers. There are tartelettes of tomato, mushroom, or fennel leek; flash-fried calamari, and main courses of grilled salmon with provencale butter and a mash du jour, rib-eye with beurre Maitre d’Horel and ratatouille, prawns in tomato and garlic, and roasted chicken with rosemary au juice

Plan b café is open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 10 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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