For almost a quarter century, Henry Chandler was an easy guy to spot at his eponymous Henry’s Louisiana Grill in downtown Acworth.
From his signature chef’s jacket to pajama pants to wild-child hair and neatly trimmed beard, Henry loved to work the crowd when he wasn’t in the kitchen, chatting up both longtime customers and newbies and settling Mardi Gras beads around their necks.
That changes at the end of this week. After he and wife Claudia sold the popular Cajun/fusion/southern eatery to a Colorado couple in April, Chandler agreed to stick around for some months as a consultant. But after Saturday, the couple will settle into retirement-with an asterisk. They plan to market a line of their signature sauces and Henry says he’ll pen a light-hearted cookbook…