Southsiders, get ready for

an interesting dining experience.

Chef Paul Luna, who has run

numerous Atlanta restaurants, has packed his spices and moved to Hogansville.

Yes, that sleepy little Southern

town just off Interstate 85 is now the home of one of the most innovative

and eccentric chefs Atlanta has seen in several years.

Luna traded the big city lights

for a more pastoral setting to start his new restaurant, The Chef's Table,

which opens Wednesday.

The restaurant offers quite

an innovative approach to dining.

"There is no menu,"

Luna said. "When you call to make reservations, tell me what you

want to cook."

Luna said the five-course meal

will run $40, without wine, and gives him the opportunity to deal with

friends, instead of just customers.

He's hopeful that residents

on the south side of Atlanta will make the trek to Hogansville to get

a meal that they can't find anywhere else.

"If you want lobster,

I'll go get it," he said.

The chef has a heritage of

Spanish and Italian descent, which gives Luna a background in two of the

oldest European cuisines.

Luna said this type of restaurant

could never work in Atlanta, which is why he chose a country setting.

"I'm learning to be Southern,"

he said with a laugh.

Luna was known to run through

some of his previous restaurants naked, but said the only thing naked

in Hogansville so far is the cows.

The restaurant's address is

210 East Main St. and residents should call 706-402-2448 for reservations.