Ellington

Description

Homemade is not homely - not at Scallions After Hours, a new venture offering dinner four days a week at the long-lived ladies-who-lunch restaurant on Kavanaugh Boulevard. Roberts sublets Scallions on Wednesday through Saturday evenings from owner Nikki Avants, where she serves several Scallions favorites (such as chicken salad and the Heights Veggie Sandwich) along with an evolving array of stylish and attractively presented appetizers, entrees, salads, sandwiches and desserts made from scratch using family recipes.
"We're having a great time," Roberts says; her daughter created that homemade sign and her son is in the kitchen on this particular evening. "We get to do our thing. We really like it. Turnout has been good."
No wonder. Scallions is a delight at night, with outdoor seating at glass-topped tables scattered in a lovely sunken courtyard sheltered by arcing autumn-tinged trees. If the weather won't cooperate, there are plenty of tables scattered across the restaurant's rather cramped and oddly configured interior pleasantly cool and softly lit on a recent humid evening, that's adorned with colorful abstract paintings.