Randy T.
Yelp
New restaurant specializing in healthier food options that is different from its neighbors on Buford Highway. Yo! Chef What's Cooking is the latest restaurant that allows diners to customize their breakfast, lunch, or dinner to their liking. Build your own salad is a common offering in Atlanta, but this restaurant also has build your own pasta, build your own sandwich, and build your own breakfast. If this is overwhelming for you, there are several pre-built salads, sandwiches, and pastas that you can choose from. Vegetables are on display at the front counter and proteins are cooked to order. The seating in the restaurant consists of several long picnic tables that will accommodate medium sized groups.
Location/Parking: Yo! Chef What's Cooking? is located at the corner of Clairmont Road and Buford Highway. Turn right from Clairmont Road and the restaurant will be on the right. Aldi's and Burger King are located in the same plaza. There is plenty of parking available in the lot for the plaza.
Food:
Yo Chef! Salad ($16.00) - I was too lazy to make my own creation, so I picked the Yo Chef! salad. This salad consisted of greens, feta cheese, tomatoes, beets, onion, cucumbers, and a generous portion of salmon. I chose the Italian dressing, but was offered lemon or caesar dressing. The vegetables were fresh. There was plenty of onion, cucumbers, and red beets. I didn't notice too much of the feta cheese. Salmon was good, but could have benefited either from more citrus or more seasoning. I thought the dressing needed more punch too - either more sweetness or zest. The salad has the right ingredients and a very large portion size, but I think the flavor profile could be enhanced more to create a great entree overall.
Service: Food is ordered at the counter and brought to the table. The food took about 20 minutes to come out, but the salmon was cooked fresh and served hot. The server was very accommodating and polite.
Verdict: Yo! Chef What's Cooking? definitely adds variety to the current selection of restaurants on Buford Highway. Its selling points are its highly customizable entrees that come in different forms (pasta, sandwich, or salad) and that your meal can be extremely healthy. These selling points can justify the entree price here, which is higher than what you'll see on the rest of Buford Highway.