Cafe 5901

Café 5901 founder and executive chef Stephen Barkulis draws on an education in classic, French cuisine to craft salads, paninis, and soups with gustatory skills that helped him rank highly on OpenTable's 2010 Diners' Choice list. Organic coffee wakes up taste buds with beans that were allowed to graze freely, whereas a smoked-salmon-heaped toasted bagel starts mornings with layers of swiss and avocado. House-made caesar dressing cloaks salads and chicken-breast sandwiches with fresh, from-scratch flavor, and a soup of the day delivers a different batch of bowl-cargo daily.