Mimi's Cafe Quietly Bids Adieu to Dunwoody
Mimi's Cafe at Perimeter Place in Dunwoody has closed. The restaurant, part of Dallas based LeDuff America, opened at the SuperTarget anchored center in 2006. Sources say the restaurant abruptly shuttered this past Friday. Signage at the restaurant indicated that "free items" were left at the rear of the restaurant (in a dumpster). It's unclear what was originally available, but a reader observed that as of Sunday afternoon, limited racks, chairs and tables were still available.
Mimi's Cafe was open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and served French and American food, with "French" decor and themes. Arthur J. Simms, his son Thomas Simms, Brian Taylor, and Paul Kurz opened the first Mimi's Cafe in December 1978 in Anaheim, California. Arther, who was stationed in France during World War II, named the restaurant after a French woman he met at a party after the liberation of the country.
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. purchased Mimi's Cafe in July 2004 for $182 million. In February 2013, Mimi’s Cafe was sold to LeDuff America, the US arm of French conglomerate Groupe Le Duff, which also owns the La Madeleine and Bruegger's Bagels restaurants.
The 6,700 square foot Mimi's at Perimeter Place is the latest eatery to close in the development. Applebee's closed its roughly 5,300 square foot restaurant there this past April. The roughly 7,000 square foot former Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant remains vacant despite a number of false starts by would-be replacement restaurants.
A number of area residents are reportedly afraid that Outback Steakhouse, also in Perimeter Place, could be the next to close.
Mimi's Cafe's other Atlanta area restaurant off Buford Drive near Mall of Georgia in Buford remains open.
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