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  • Cozy Cosi. Justin Ward (Harvest) has opened the 100-seat Cosi in the former Square Table space on East Ponce de Leon. David Intonato (Harvest, Abbey) has created a Mediterranean menu with Greek, Spanish, French, and Italian specialties.

  • Food 101 is open for business in the Belle Isle Square. Partners Stephen Buero, Frank Smith, Chris Segal, and Mark Stillman describe their 120-seat venture as back to basics, with hearty food by Scott Crawford (ex-Peasant Uptown), including pot roast with pan gravy and maple- brine pork tenderloin with plum-fig sauce. On Sundays, with enough advance notice, Crawford will make a favorite family recipe forparties of six or more.

  • The Dining Room is out at the downtown Ritz-Carlton, and the Atlanta Grill is in, complete with a new look, new breakfast and lunch service, and a new menu with regional favorites such as Brunswick rabbit stew with macaroni and cheese.

  • Casa Blanca Cafe on Peachtree Road, formerly the Spanish Cafe, is dishing up the specialties of Mexico and El Salvador.

  • Pano Karatassos (Buckhead Life Group) is renovating his 21-year-old flagship property, Pano and Paul's, with the help of designer Bill Johnson. Meanwhile,co-founder Paul Albrecht has left Pano and Paul's to open Enos, his own restaurant in Florida

  • The Italian eatery Bertucci's has gone dark, as has Bertolini's in Phipps Plaza. Ditto to the once impossible-to-get-into Kudzu Cafe on Peachtree.