Dining
BY KAREN CHANEY
Pesto chicken atbread ($13) includes pesto, mozzarella, chicken, peppers and parmesan cheese.
Rasta pasta ($15) at The Nook in Celina includes gluten free penne pasta, grilled jerk chicken, Jamaican jerk cream sauce, raw cherry tomatoes and fresh parsley.
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The Nook serves ‘country club comfort food’ The Nook owner Anthony Morel said he cre- ated the menu, which he describes as “country club comfort food,” by pulling recipes from his restaurant experience and using his grandmother’s recipes. Morel opened The Nook in Celina in June 2020 after moving to Light Farms. On the menu
The Nook Owner Anthony Morel opened the restaurant in 2020 in Celina.
was supposed to take two months then, “the world started shutting down,” he said. On March 30, 2020, Morel, his wife and a cook started lling to-go orders and later on June 9, 2020 they were able to open the doors to the public. Morel said he’s worked in everything from dive bars to ve star restaurants. “The thing about the service industry, you get into it because the money is quick and easy and usually you’re going to school or you have other plans to do something else. I didn’t have that,” Morel said. “I just rode the wave until I mentally grew up and made the choice that this is my career, and if it’s my career, I need to hang on.”
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Popular menu items include the brussel salad, which has a spicy chili dressing, and the South- west salad featuring chipotle ranch dressing. Other top sellers include atbreads and burgers. The backstory Morel signed the lease in November 2019 and started construction in early January 2020, which
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