January 13, 2009

Three Nashville area restaurants owned by the local couple that operates Bellevue's City Limits Bakery and Cafe recently closed due to a troubled economy.

Affected are fine-dining restaurant onehundredwest that opened in June, a second location of City Limits and prepared foods business Eats a la Carte, according to Terri Woods, a co-owner.

All three locations were in the Shoppes on the Harpeth on Highway 100 at Temple Road. City Limits and Eats a la Carte there opened in June.

The restaurants closed "because we had a gas shortage in Nashville and people's attitudes about the economy," Woods said on Tuesday, calling factors like that "the kiss of death" for a new restaurant and business. City Limits in Bellevue will remain open, she said.