One of the most surprising restaurant openings this year -- in a year filled with restaurant openings -- has been the Darker Than Blue Cafe in Waverly, something of a culinary wasteland except for the farmers market and Pete's Grille for breakfast. 

Casey Jenkins, the owner/chef of Darker Than Blue, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America; and his new place, although decorated on a shoestring, is cute as a button.

Read my review in next Sunday's  Arts & Life Today section to find out more.

(Glenn Fawcett/Sun Photographer)