Le Bilboquet Restaurant Under Fire for Arbitrarily Enforced Dress Code | Eater Atlanta

"I found that Atlanta restaurant Houston’s has been the center of racial-profiling allegations over the years: in 2015 attorney Yussuf Abdel-Aleem sued parent company Hillstone Restaurant Group after alleging a manager at Houston’s on Peachtree Road in Buckhead told him to remove his baseball cap and hang up his cell phone before asking the table to leave, and that the restaurant later called police when other minority businessmen returned; in 2017 actress Ernestine Johnson alleged she was denied service at a Lenox Road location, which sparked calls for a boycott and a demonstration. These episodes contribute to a pattern of complaints about how Houston’s enforces its policies." - Beth McKibben