Café Monte French Bakery and Bistro, 6700 Fairview Road, 704-552-1116, has recently added the pastry products from Amelies?: a French Bakery and are now open daily at 7 a.m.
Two restaurants which opened in the fall of 2006 have closed: locally-owned low-country cuisine Sugar Magnolia in Blakeney, and corporate chain Oceanaire Seafood Room in SouthPark. Oceanaire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed four of its 16 restaurants: Charlotte, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Seattle.