The omelets at this restaurant are among the best in Atlanta

Dish of the Week: Omelette du Jour at Bread & Butterfly

The egg is one the world’s most perfect foods. It is as if the chicken, a notoriously unintelligent animal, somehow dreamed up the ideal combination of fat and protein into a precisely-portioned vessel. However perfect it might be, though, the French somehow figured out how to improve eggs, mostly the same way the French improved everything else: with more butter.

Bread & Butterfly, Inman Park's charming French bistro , happens to turn out one of Atlanta's most simple, eloquent renditions of an omelet. It starts, of course, with good eggs that the restaurant buys from Many Fold Farm , whenever available. Those orange-yolked beauties are whipped ultra-smooth and cooked into a delicate roll with plenty of butter.

On the plate, this pure expression of egg and butter is hardly adorned with anything, a little sprinkle of finely chopped herbs or microplane-shaved Parmesan. A leafy green salad makes it a meal, but the texture of the omelet is the real attraction here: the delicately cooked exterior giving way to a creamy, oozing center. Forget the plane ticket to Paris. This is as good as it gets.

Bread & Butterfly, 290 Elizabeth St., Atlanta. 678-515-4536, bread-and-butterfly.com

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